Rice Hoppers(Appam)/Spongy Rice Pancakes and some awards

Seriously, this is in my Top5 favorite Breakfast/Brunch choice of all time. Who can resist these soft, spongy Hoppers? No Sireee! Not me for sure. These Hoppers or Spongy Rice Pancakes are quite popular and largely prevalent in South Indian households. I love to have this with sweetened coconut milk and tomato chutney. What about you? If you haven't had this before, you don't know what you are missing. Just head over to a South Indian restaurant for a taste of heaven. The texture is similar to that of Ethiopian Injera. Yum!

Ingredients:

• Raw Rice - 2 cups, soaked for 4 hours
• Cooked Rice - a handful
• Grated Coconut - a handful
• Dry Yeast - 1/2 tsp
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Warm water

For the Coconut Milk:

• Grated coconut from 1 mature coconut
• Warm water or Skimmed Milk - 2 cups
• Sugar - 2 tbsp

Tool:

• Wok, preferably non-stick

Procedure:

• Wash and grind the raw rice, grated coconut and cooked rice to a smooth paste with very less water.
• In a bowl, add 2 tbsp of warm water and add the sugar and yeast.
• Add this yeast mixture to the ground paste and let it ferment overnight.
• Prepare the batter to a pour-able consistency(Batter should be thicker than crepe-batter).
• Pour a ladle-full of batter to the wok and swirl it so that the batter coats the side of the pan and the center is spongy. 
• Close the lid and let it cook for 2-3 minutes on a medium flame.Repeat the same with the remaining batter.
• Extract "thick" coconut milk by squeezing batches of grated coconut through cheesecloth.
• Extract "thin" coconut milk by letting the squeezed coconut soak in warm water or milk and squeezing them again through the cheesecloth.Sweeten the coconut milk with sugar.
• Serve hot hoppers with spicy tomato chutney or sweet coconut milk.

Enjoy!

Now its time to acknowledge the awards:
AshKuku of http://asha-oceanichope.blogspot.com  and Cicily of http://ceciliantonio.blogspot.com have shared these wonderful awards with me. I thank you both from the bottom of my heart. You girls rock!

 

This last award, passed to me by Cicily comes with a set of demands:

The rules for accepting this award are 

• Thank the person who gave you the award.
• Copy the award to your blog.
• Place a link to their blog.
• Name 7 things people don't know about you.
• Nominate 7 bloggers.
• Place a link to those bloggers.
• Place a comment letting those bloggers know about the award.

I have been tagged before by Saju of The Novice Kitchen.  To know more about me click here.

The point of giving awards, besides appreciation is to know and be known by other bloggers who share the same passion,right? So I would like to share this award with bloggers who I just have come to  know and have come to like what they post

• PJ of Ginger N Garlic
• Preethi Kashyap of Relishing Recipes
• Ramya of Memory Archieved 
• Mythreyi of My Recipe Corner 
• Fathima of Thattukada 
• Priya Prashanth of Priya Recipes 
• Priya Balachand of Spicy Southern Food