Pesaha Appam and Paal

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Pesaha Appam

Ingredients

1. Rice Flour – 2 cups
2. Grated Coconut – 1 1/4 cup
3. Uzhunnu (Urad Dal) – A handul (soaked in water for a few hours)
4. Shallots (Kunjulli) - 5 or 6 pieces
5. Garlic – 2 pods
6. Cumin (Jeerakam) – 1/4 tsp
7. Salt – to taste
8. Water – as required

Preparation Method

1. Take rice flour in a big vessel and add a pinch of salt.
2. Grind the soaked uzhunnu parippu with little water to form a fine paste and add it to the rice flour.
3. Grind shallots and garlic to form a fine paste and add it to the rice flour.
4. Grind coconut and 1/4 tsp jeera to form a coarse paste.
5. Mix everything together adding little water to form a thick batter. Add more salt if required. The consistency of the batter should be slightly less than that of idli batter.
6. Keep the batter for around 3 hours.
7. Grease a steel plate or line it with Banana leaves and pour the batter and spread it evenly (I used Aluminum Foil for lining the vessel). Make a cross using the Palm Leaves from Palm Sunday and place it on the middle of the batter. This Appam with the cross is known as Kurishu Appam.
8. Steam it for around 15 minutes in an AppaChembu or Idli Cooker.
9. With the remaining batter, you can make appam in the same way without the cross.


Pesaha Coconut Milk

1. Coconut Milk – 3 Cups
2. Sharkara – 1/4 kg
3. Rice Flour – 1/4 cup
4. Dry Ginger (Chukku) – a small piece
5. Powdered Cardamom (Elakka) – 1/4 tsp
6. Powdered Cumin – 1/4 tsp
7. Black Sesame Seeds (Ellu) – 1/4 tsp

Preparation Method

1. Melt jaggery by boiling it slowly in around 1/2 cup of water. Filter the syrup.
2. Take coconut milk in a saucepan. Keep it on low heat and bring it to a boil stirring continuously.
3. Add jaggery syrup to the coconut milk and stir for a few minutes.
4. Dissolve the rice flour in little water an add it to the above mixture so that the mixture thickens.
5. Add the powdered spices (dry ginger, cumin and cardamom) and finally some sesame seeds.
6. You can add small pieces of the palm leaves to the Pesaha Milk.


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