Recipe: Perfect Coconut Stew with Appams

Coconut Stew with Appams. But Appam by itself is very heavy for breakfast with coconut milk. As I have mentioned before, this lunch menu and breakfast menu series all about re visiting my old recipes. So this week it is this breakfast with appam, vegetable stew and coconut milk with jaggery.

The coconut milk is sweetened with jaggery and flavored with cardamom powder. A South- Indian speciality, Appams are essentially a fermented rice and coconut lace pancake (also referred to as hoppers) with a thicker spongey center. They are delicately sweet, light 'n crispy along the edges and fluffy 'n soft in the center. You can cook Coconut Stew with Appams using 22 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Coconut Stew with Appams

1. Prepare of For Appams.
2. Prepare 2 cups of Idli rice/ Sona Masoori.
3. Prepare 1 cup of coconut paste/coconut milk.
4. It's 1 cup of cooked plain rice.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of instant dry yeast.
6. It's 2 tsp of sugar.
7. It's As needed of Water.
8. You need to taste of Salt.
9. It's of For Coconut Stew.
10. Prepare 1 cup of Coconut paste.
11. You need 3-4 of Potatoes.
12. Prepare 3-4 of Drumsticks.
13. Prepare 1 tbsp of Ginger garlic paste.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of green chilli paste.
15. Prepare 1/2 tsp of haldi (Turmeric)powder.
16. It's 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
17. It's 2 tsp of coriander powder.
18. You need 1 tsp of garam masala powder.
19. You need 2 of Tomatoes.
20. It's 1 pinch of hing/asafoetida.
21. It's to taste of Salt.
22. You need 3 tsp of Oil.

Perfect for mopping up traditional Kerala stews and curries. Appam with sweet coconut milk is something he can have everyday. Appam is done when the sides are brown. Remove the appam slowly with the help of a spatula.

Coconut Stew with Appams instructions

1. For Appams, soak rice for 4-5hrs. Now in a mixture grinder take rice without water, add coconut paste, cooked rice, yeast, salt and add little water and grind the mixture till you get soft medium thick batter. Now remove in a big vessel the batter. In a pan take 2 tsps of batter add 1 cup water and put on stove and keep stirring the mixture till you get thick paste..
2. Now add this paste in the batter and mix properly with hands to get incorporated. Keep the batter for fermentation in a warm place for at least 6-8hrs..
3. Once the batter is fermented it's ready to make Appams. Take an Appam pan or any deep kadai. Put one big laddel of batter in a pan on middle and now hold the pan and stir slowly so that batter spreads side wise and then remaining batter keep in between only. Close the pan and cook for 2 mnts. The hot piping Appams are ready to serve with Coconut stem..
4. For Coconut stew, in a pan take oil, add a pinch hing. Now add ginger garlic and green chilli paste and then add all dry masala powders and salt. Now add chopped potatoes, drumsticks and coconut paste and mix well. Cover and let in cook for sometime..
5. Now add chopped tomatoes and let it cook for sometime. Next add 1/2 cup water and let cook for few minutes and the delicious coconut stew is ready to be served with hot piping Appams.

Serve appam with sweet coconut milk and stew and it makes for a fantastic breakfast or dinner. Appam is usually served with sweetened coconut milk, kurma or stew. This is Kerala Style of making appams. When you find holes forming on the corners/sides, reduce the heat to low and cook covered. Once cooked remove the appams with the help of a spatula and serve hot with any stew or.

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