How to make Palappam - traditional breakfast of Kerala : recipe
Making Palappam
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Palappam is the traditional breakfast of Kerala. It is one of the important dishes during the functions of traditional Suriyani Christians. It is made of ‘Pachari’ white rice. It is sometimes known as vellayappam. It is usually served along with coconut flavored stew or “Kadala Curry” – (black chickpeas) or Egg Curry. Nowadays , Instant Mix are also available and is the trend now. Here I’m explaining the traditional way in which the same is prepared here in my home.
Do check my hub on preparing Puttu & also the combination of spicy Kadala Curry
Cook Time
Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 30 min
Ready in: 1 hour 30 min
Yields: 1kg Rice will make around 30 Palappam
Ready to make Palappam Mix
Ingredients
- 1 Kg Rice, soak rice for around 6 hrs and later, clean it and grind the same.
- Cooked Rice, to grind along with the Soaked Rice
- 1 TableSpoon Yeast, put yeast in 3tablespoon water and keep it for fermentation, till the Rice is grinded finely
- 5 TableSpoon Sugar, Later to mix it with Grinded Rice Mixture
- 1 TableSpoon Salt, to mix it with the Palappam Mix
- Half Coconut's Coconut milk, to mix to the palappam mix just before preparation
- Rice Powder Solution, get some rice powder out of the soaked rice, mix it with water and boil it till it becomes thicker
Preparing and Cooking
- Soak Rice for 6hrs. Later powder some rice to make rice powder of around 3-4 spoon. Mix water with the rice powder and boil the same til it become thicker. This is known as "KAPPI". Keep aside the same to cool.
- Now Grind the rest of the soaked rice, cooked Rice with water, till the mixture becomes smooth enough, without any grains.
- Mix the Kappi to the grinded mixture. Add Sugar, Salt and yeast solution , mix it well. Keep the Palappam Mix , for the whole night to ferment. Please keep the mix in a large vessel to ferment, as the mix may expand and if vessel is small , you may lost the same . Vessel used should be of steel.
- In the morning you could see the mixture is fermented and the Mix comes expanded all the away along the top level of the vessel. Mix the same with a spoon.
- Take the coconut milk, mix it with the palappam mix. Now you can start making palappam.
- Use Palappam pan . It will be slided towards the middle.
- Pour one big Spoon of Mix to the pan, once it is hot enough. Twist the Mix along the pan to make the shape of Palappam.
- Now close the pan with a lid. After 60sec to 1min, you can remove the pan and see the cooked Palappam.
- The twisting results in the frills formed in the palappam.
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