Life altering recipe!

Step 1:-  Preparing yourself and the ingredients

Prepare yourself. Be confident. Do not be afraid of failure (otherwise I promise you, your batter won’t rise!). And seek blessings from the elders (especially the appam experts).

Prepare the ingredients. You will need some white rice. Raw white rice (“paccha ari/arisi”), ponni rice or if abroad and cannot find these, even long-grained rice like basmati will work. The par-boiled variety doesn’t work- for me at least. 

You would also need coconut. Buy them pre- grated at the store, or grate them yourself at home (excellent exercise for your forearms). The frozen kind, canned coconut milk and coconut milk powder just won’t cut it- trust me!

Also, please decide to make appams on a day when you have leftover cooked rice on hand and save yourself some trouble.

Step 2:- Soaking the rice- the night before…

Just before you plonk face- down onto your pillow after a hard day, drop into your kitchen; find a measuring cup (your morning coffee mug would do)… tumble some white rice into it.....

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