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Vattayappam | Fermented Rice Cake

March 23, 2016 By Manjooo M Leave a Comment

Let us start with the name. Vattam means round. Appam means bread. So round shaped appam is Vattayappam.

Vattayappam is a specialty dish of Christian families in Kerala. This fermented, mildly sweet rice cake is one of the main dish on the breakfast table most of days and also sometimes during festivals like Easter and Christmas. But at home whenever mom prepares paalappam for breakfast, the same day evening she prepares vattayappam. She sweeten the left over paalappam batter with sugar or jaggery…for aroma grounded cumin seeds and/or cardamoms is added

I have started cooking independently more than a decade ago.. Though I ate homemade paalappams and vattayappams  (which my mom prepared) several times,  I never dared to prepare this from scratch. My mom, aunt, cousins, friends.. all of them kept saying “Appam??? That is so easy to prepare…” and then they start explaining me the recipe.. I prepare pretty good palappams using rice flour. But for my blog, I wanted to post the recipe which is prepared from scratch. And very lately I gained the courage to prepare it at home.

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Vattayappam | Fermented Rice Cake
Author: Manju (scoopoflove.com)
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
 
Ingredients
  • Pachari ( Raw rice ) - 1.5 cup (white or long grain basmati or red) (It is not boiled rice)
  • Water - 1.5 cup for grinding
  • Freshly scrapped coconut - ¾ cup
  • Active dry yeast - ½ teaspoon
  • Sugar - 1 tbsp
  • Salt - ¼ teaspoon
  • Sugar - ½ cup
  • Raisins - 2 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - ¼ teaspoon, freshly grounded
  • Cardamom - 2 grounded
  • Clarified butter(ghee) for greasing the pans
Instructions
  1. Wash rice well and soak in 5 cups of water for 4 to 6 hours
  2. Drain and transfer this to a grinder jar.
  3. Add 1 cup of water and grind to a smooth paste..(add the remaining water when you feel the batter is turning dry during grinding. )
  4. Add in coconut, cumin seeds , water if remaining and continue grinding for few more minutes
  5. Now add rest of the ingredients(yeast, sugar, salt) and grind for couple of minutes
  6. Transfer this to a deep bowl leaving enough space for the batter to rise
  7. Cover and set aside in a warm place to ferment.
  8. For me it took hardly 2 hours to rise. Sometimes it takes more time depending upon the room temperature (So you could say 3 - 4 hours)
  9. Once it is fermented add in the flavoring ingredients(1/2 cup sugar, raisin, cumin seeds and cardamom) and whisk well.
  10. With this recipe you could prepare 2 vattayappams in 8 inch pan
  11. Grease 2 cake tins or deep plates, which can sit inside your steamer, with clarified butter
  12. pour half the batter in one tin and place in a steamer.
  13. Steam for 20 minutes
  14. Remove and repeat the same with second batch.
  15. Once it is cool down, slice and serve
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It will be spongy, soft and airy. You could eat it warm or cold.. Just in case if you are refrigerating, make sure to steam it again before eating..

Back at home, we get lot of tender coconuts from our farms. Mom replaces the coconut with tender coconut pulp.. and water with tender coconut water.. The appams will become more tastier

 

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