Perfect Palappam

Ingredients

Idly Rice-2 cup Coconut grated -1 small coconut Sugar-4tbsp Salt- Yeast-1/4tsp Water- as needed

Method

Wash rice thoroughly 3 to 4 times.Soak rice for minimum 3 to 4 hours .. Drain it and keep aside..Then grind rice along with grated coconut in 2 to 3 batches ..Grind to a fine smooth batter ...Take one ladle of batter and add 1 cup of water and mix well ..Heat a non stick pan and pour this mix and cook until it thickens ,by stirring continuously in low flame..After cooling this mix, add to the rest of the batter along with sugar ,salt and yeast ..Mix well ...If u can just give a blend for 1 minute so that it will get mix well...The consistency of the batter should be thinner than dosa batter..So add water if needed..Keep the batter in an airtight container till the batter get raised ..The quantity of the sugar is depending up on your taste ..And regarding the yeast ,that also depending up on the weather and room temperature.. So make changes up on according to your climate..So when the batter is ready ,heat a non stick appam chatty specially made for making appam . Drizzle some water in the appam pan and when u see the water is disappearing as soon as the water is dropped ,that is the right time to pour appam batter ..So pour 1 ladle of batter in the middle of the pan and rotate the chatty by holding both sides ..Now u can see tiny holes are coming in the sides of the appam ..After that close the pan with a lid and cook in medium heat ..mostly 1 minute ..you will know after cooking the very first appam ...Taste the first one and adjust sugar and salt .. If the batter is thick you can add water ..Make rest of the appam like that..So our perfect palappam is ready to serve...