Ragi, also known as finger millet, is a grain that is highly valued for its nutritional properties. It’s particularly well-known in various parts of India, as well as in Africa.
Ragi is rich in nutrients and offers numerous health benefits:
- High in Protein
- Rich in Dietary Fiber
- Calcium and Iron
- Antioxidants
Appam is a popular dish in Kerala made with rice & coconut. Making appam with ragi flour sounded interesting & is definitely a healthy alternative to rice appam.
The appam turned out awesome, with crispy edges & soft center. This can be enjoyed with any kind of curries.
Ragi- Finger Millet Appam, Kerala Style Crepe
Author: Thasneen
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- Ragi- millet flour- 1½ cups
- Cooked rice- ½ cup
- Grated coconut- ¼ cup
- Sugar- ½ tbsp
- Instant dry yeast- ½ tsp
- Salt- ½ tsp
- Oil- ½ tbsp
- Lukewarm water- 2 cups
Instructions
- 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 ragi 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!
