Vella Appam Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of white rice
• Half a coconut
• 1 table spoon of yeast
• Sugar
• Salt
• 2 table spoon of partially ground, cooked rice.

Method:

• Soak the washed rice for 3 to 4 hours.
• Wash and drain. 
• Grind the soaked rice in a blender with just enough water so that the ground material will be thick.
• In the early stages of grinding take out about two table spoon of the partially ground rice and keep it apart for cooking and later mixing.(This will be called KURUKKU).
• Mix separately 1 teaspoonful of yeast , quarter cup of luke warm water and 1 tablespoon of sugar and allow the mixture to rise. 
• Grind the coconut to a milky emulsion. Mix your ground rice, 'Kurukku'(cook the partially ground rice saved earlier like a thick porridge) the yeast mixture and ground coconut.
• Allow the mixture to ferment for about 6 hours. Add sugar and salt as your taste dictates.You can add a little coconut milk to adjust the consistency.(You can add one beaten up egg at this stage if you fear appams sticking to the pan.- Alternately you can wrap a half fried egg in cloth and use it to rub the frying area of your pan.).
• Now put the mixture in a warm oven for 2 hours just before you make the Appams

After it rises DO NOT STIR. Use a cast iron pan and use the same technique that one uses for pancakes.