Pesaha Appam / Indri Appam – Recipe By Rovena Fernandes.

1 cup red rice flour

1 cup raw rice flour

1/2 tsp Jeera

Salt

1 Coconut

1/2 cup urad dal

1 Garlic pod

7 to 8 Shallots

Banana leaves

1 Coconut

1/2 cup jaggery

Salt less than a pinch

3 Tbsp rice flour

Cardamom

Soak urad dal for 2 hours.

Dry roast red rice and powder it.

Grind coconut, shallots, jeera and garlic to paste.

Grind urad dal and keep it aside.

Take a mixing bowl and mix raw rice and red rice flour with enough salt.

Pour hot water ànd mix it. Keep it thick enough.

Add the ground coconut paste and mix .

Add the ground urad dal and mix it.

Take a clean banana leaf, spread the batter on it. Wet your finger before you spread. Fold it.

Steam it.

For Sweetened coconut milk

Grind Jaggery and extract thick coconut milk

In a saucepan add the milk and jaggery and stir it till the Jaggery melts.

Meanwhile, mix 2 Tbsp of rice flour in thin coconut milk. Add this to the above jaggery coconut milk in the saucepan and stir it continuously so till it thickens and you get bubbles.