Homemade Appams Delicious Fermented Pancakes Food

PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
• In another bowl, beat the eggs and then whisk in the milk and vanilla.
• Melt the butter in a large cast iron skillet or griddle over medium heat.
• Whisk the butter into the milk mixture. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture, and whisk until a thick batter is just formed.
• Keeping the skillet at medium heat, ladle about 1/4 cup of the batter onto the skillet, to make a pancake. Make 1 or 2 more pancakes, taking care to keep them evenly spaced apart. Cook, until bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, and the undersides are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook about 1 minute more on the second side. Serve immediately or transfer to a platter and cover loosely with foil to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more butter to the skillet as needed.
• Procedure for adding fruit to pancakes: Once the bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, scatter the surface with sliced or diced fruit, or chocolate chips, nuts, etc. Flip with a spatula and cook for 1 minute more, being careful not to burn toppings.
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SIMPLE HOMEMADE PANCAKES

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Using a whisk or large fork, mix in the buttermilk and egg until well combined and smooth. Stir in the melted butter.
• Heat non-stick skillet or griddle over medium heat. Using a 1/4 cup measure, pour pancake batter onto hot griddle. When pancake is golden brown, flip to cook other side. Keep warm in oven heated to 275 degrees.
• Variations: Blueberry and banana pancakes: Stir in 1 cup fresh berries into batter.

APPAMS (FERMENTED RICE AND COCONUT PANCAKE)

Steps:

• Soak the idli rice (white glutinous rice) for 4-6 hours.
• In a bowl add a little lukewarm water and add the yeast and sugar,stir and keep aside for 15 minutes or till frothy.
• Grind the rice with the coconut and jaggery in your mixer or food processor till you get a smooth batter.It should be of a pourable consistency.
• When the yeast mixture is frothy,stir in the salt till it is dissolved and add it to the batter you have prepared.
• Keep the batter closed in a warm corner of the kitchen to ferment overnight.
• .In the morning, heat a skillet,add half a teaspoons of sunflower oil, and pour a ladel of batter in the centre of it and move the pan around so that the batter spreads.
• you will notice holes appearing in the pancake almost immediately.
• Flip it over when the sides begin to brown and cook for a minute.
• Serve with sweetened coconut milk or just as it is.
• Enjoy! :).

HOMEMADE TOMATO JUICE (WITHOUT TOMATOES) (LOW FAT)

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients well and then put juice in a pitcher with a sealable lid.
• Refrigerate.

APPAMS

Steps:

• Soak the raw rice in water for around 3-4 hours.
• Scrape the coconut.
• Grind the rice with the coconut and the cooked rice till very fine.
• Keep it overnight or for 8 hours (not refrigerated) Early next morning (three hours before making the appams) add 1 glass of boiling hot milk to the batter and the sugar, salt and yeast/cooking soda (I prefer the yeast) Mix well (add more milk if required to get the consitency of pourable batter) Cover and keep aside for 3 hours.
• Now heat a non stick wok.
• (kadhai) Pour a ladle full of the batter into the wok and swirl the wok around so that the batter spreads around 6-8 inches in diameter.
• Cover and cook on medium heat till the lower part of the appam is light brown or the top part is not moist but spongy.
• The sides will seem lacey and the centre will be thick like an idli.
• This dish can be served with coconut milk and powdered cardamom sweetened with jaggery and sugar or with chicken or mutton stew (Indian style with coconut milk) ANd yes do try it with maple syrup or as it is (as my son enjoys it).

HOMEMADE APPAMS (DELICIOUS FERMENTED PANCAKES)

Steps:

• In a big bowl thoroughly mix all the ingredients together.
• Take an appam patra or the utensil you get in the market to make appams (It is also available on Amazon.in) and lightly grease it with cooking oil.
• Pour a tablespoon of the prepared batter (made in step 1) into each of the little units of the appam patra utensil.
• Using the back of the spoon, flatten out the batter once poured into the various units.
• Cover and cook on low to medium flame for 5-7 minutes.
• Flip on the other side, cover and cook for another 4-6 minutes on low flame.
• The sides will appear lacey and the centre will appear thick like an idli.
• Serve hot with mango chutney or green chutney for an evening snack or enjoy these with a cup of hot tea for breakfast.