Vellai Appam Recipe | How to make Vellai Appam | Vellai Appam for Thirukarthigai


Vellai Appam, is one of the important neivedhyam dishes for Thirukarthigai festival. Even it is a traditional for the people of Madurai and other places of TamilNadu to make this Vellai Appam for Diwali Festival. As my mom-in-law is from Tirunelveli, it is a tradition for them to make this Vellai Appam for Tirukarthigai Festival. We can even do this simple and yummy dish as a breakfast or a evening snack. A very simple and easy to make dish.


Vellai Appam Recipe | How to make Vellai Appam | Vellai Appam for Thirukarthigai
Preparation and Yield:
Preparation time 10 mins
Cooking Time 5 mins
Servings 5

Vellai Appam Recipe | How to make Vellai Appam | Vellai Appam for Thirukarthigai
Ingredients:
Raw Rice 1 and 1/4 Cups*
Parboiled Rice** 1/4 Cup
Urdal 1/4 Cup
Salt To taste
Chopped Ginger 1 teaspoon
Green Chillies 2
Curry Leaves few
Chopped Coconut Pieces 1 tablespoon
Whole Black Pepper 1/2 teaspoon
Hing a Pinch
Oil For frying
*1 Cup = 250ml ** For Neivedhyam parboiled rice should not be included
Method:
  1. Wash and soak the rice and dal together for 2 hours. After 2 hours, drain the water and take the rice and dal in a mixer or grinder

  • Grind the rice and dal to a nice and smooth batter like a dosa batter. Finely chop the green chillies and add it to the appam batter along with salt, ginger, curry leaves, pepper and chopped coconut pieces and mix well. If you want a sour taste, you can leave the batter aside for about 2 hours to get it fermented. But this is optional. The conventional method of making vellai appam doesn't make the batter fermented.

  • Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is hot enough, take a small ladle and take 1 ladle full of appam batter and pour it in hot oil. If the oil is really hot, we can see the appam gets nicely puffed up. With a spatula, gently flip the appam on the other side and fry them. Since the main ingredient is raw rice, the appam will not become red it will be white or little brown. That is speciality of this appam thats why we call this as " Vellai Appam". Remove the fried appam and repeat the step for the rest of the batter.

  • The yummy Vellai appam is now ready for neivedhyam or for serving!

  • Vellai Appam Recipe | How to make Vellai Appam | Vellai Appam for Thirukarthigai

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