Ragi Palappams
Ragi Palappams are a good way to include healthy rich in calcium ragi into your diet. Ragi appams are delicious as they have the earthy flavours of ragi in them and they go well with any gravy or stew.
Ragi is really healthy and diabetic friendly grain yet most of us do not include it in our daily diet. It is high in calcium, and also helps in weight loss, full of dietary fiber it also helps battle anemia. Ragi Palappams Recipe
1.Whole Ragi-1/2 cup
Raw Rice/Basmati /idli rice-1 1/2 cup
(I used Palakkadan Matta-1 cup and white rice-1/2 cup)
Coconut (scraped)-3/4 cup
Sugar-4 tbsps
Salt to taste
Soak the rice and Ragi separately for 4-6 hrs.Grind the Ragi first with little water and then add the sugar,salt and coconut together with enough water and grind.Now add the soaked rice and water required to a smooth batter. (I ground this in two batches.)
2.Cooked rice-1/2 cup
Yeast-1/2 tsp
And grind again with enough water so that the batter is of pouring consistency.Set aside in a vessel to rise.after 4-6 hrs the batter will rise. Note:If you are not making the palappams Immediately you can keep the batter in the refrigerator so that it doesn’t overflow the containers.. and when required make the Appams
For making Ragi Palappams
Heat an appachatty & pour 1 1/2 ladle of batter to it & make a circular motion with the pan.Cover & cook on medium flame till Palappam is done.
Serve with Vegetable or non veg stew or Piralan of your choice.
Or sprinkle some sugar over the Appam and pour some hot milk or coconut milk and eat it. This is one of my favorite combos .
Note: for an Yeast free version,grind the batter without adding yeast and allow it to ferment for 8 hours or overnight till you can see small bubbles on top.Dissolve 1/2 tsp Of baking soda with 2 tbsps of water and stir into the batter.Let it sit for 30 minutes.Then proceed to make the Ragi Palappams
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