Wheat appam- a twist to Kerala’s traditional rice appam…
Appam is a popular dish in Kerala made with rice, coconut & cooked rice batter. The batter has to be fermented overnight & then it’s cooked in a special pan exclusively for making appam. It’s so light with crispy & laced edges, goes well with any kind of curries & is enjoyed for breakfast or dinner.
How about we make appam with wheat flour instead of rice? This is an instant recipe & doesn’t require overnight fermentation. Yeast is added to the batter that will help the batter to ferment in an hour. Fluffy & soft batter will be ready in just an hour. The batter when poured onto the appam pan & swirled, holes started to appear right away. The wheat appam will have a crispy & laced edges & a beautiful soft texture.
This can be enjoyed with chicken, mutton, beef or vegetable curries. For kids, pour coconut milk & sprinkle some sugar on it. Absolutely delightful delicious & melt in your mouth wheat appams.
Making wheat appam in an appam pan
Rice Appam Recipe, Click Here
- Wheat flour- 1 cup
- Cooked rice- ½ cup (or add soaked flattened rice)
- Grated coconut- ¼ cup
- Sugar- 1 tbsp
- Instant dry yeast- 1 tsp
- Salt- ½ tsp
- Oil- ½ tbsp
- Lukewarm water- 2 cups
- For making the batter, you can add either cooked white rice or Kerala matta rice.
- If you don't have cooked rice & have flattened rice or poha or aval: soak ½ cup flattened rice in ½ cup water, soak for 5 minutes.
- To a blender jar, add all the ingredients.
- If adding flattened rice, add the soaked flattened rice to the blender jar after straining the water from it.
- Grind to a smooth batter.
- Pour the batter to a large bowl.
- Let ferment for an hour.
- After an hour, the batter will have doubled in size & bubbles will appear.
- Place an appam pan over medium heat.
- Grease the pan with oil.
- Pour a large spoonful of the batter, swirl the pan & let the batter coat evenly on the pan.
- If the batter is too thick, you can add 2 to 3 tbsp of water to make it thin.
- Close with the lid & cook for a few minutes.
- Open the lid, the edges will turn golden & crispy, will resemble a lace & the center will be soff.
- Using a spatula gently take the appam off the pan & transfer to a plate.
- This wheat appam has to be enjoyed while it's hot, along with your favourite curry.
- If you don't have an appam pan, you can make this in a regular pan.
- Place a non-stick pan over medium heat, grease with oil.
- Pour a large spoonful of the batter onto the pan & using the back of the spoon gently spread the batter.
- This will be similar to making small dosas.
- Don't have to close the pan with the lid, cook for a fe minutes till the appam has cooked well & turns golden in color.
- While serving for kids, pour coconut milk & sprinkle some sugar on it.
- Enjoy!
