Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Urad Dal Sweet Appam

Urad Dal Sweet Appam. Urad Dal (Ulundu in Tamil) Sweet Appam is prepared with urad dal, jaggery, coconut and fried channa (Pottukadalai in Tamil). It is a healthy snack for children as urad dal and jaggery is a good combination. I prepared this appam in microwave oven with a microwave safe Idli mould.

Rice, urad dal and fenugreek seeds as main ingredients. Rice, urad dal and fenugreek seeds as main ingredients. Fenugreek seeds helps batter to ferment well and gives porous texture. You can cook Urad Dal Sweet Appam using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Urad Dal Sweet Appam

1. It's 200 grams of urad dal.
2. Prepare 100 gms of raw rice.
3. It's 100 gms of grated jaggery.
4. It's 1 cup of finely cut coconut pieces.
5. It's 1 tsp of cardamom powder.
6. You need To taste of salt.
7. Prepare 1-2 tsp of ghee for greasing.

Urad Dal is extensively used while preparing Indian cuisine. From basic recipes like idli and dosa. Serve these delicious urad dal puris with sweet pickle and hot tea on a sunny Sunday morning, for a complete Rajasthani ambience. Appam with sweet coconut milk is something he can have everyday.

Urad Dal Sweet Appam instructions

1. Soak urad dal and rice for 5-6 hours. Wash well and grind them to a thick paste/ batter..
2. Keep the batter for 8 hours to undergo fermentation..
3. After fermentation add salt, jaggery, coconut, cardamom powder and mix well..
4. Preheat the appam maker and grease the moulds with little ghee..
5. Now fill the moulds with batter mix by the help of a spoon. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes on a low flame..
6. When the appam turns golden brown from beneath, flip the side. Cover and cook for 2 more minutes. See that the appam gets golden brown from both the sides..
7. Take out the appam from the moulds and prepare similar appam with rest of the batter mix..
8. Serve the delicious urad dal sweet appam hot garnished & sticked with coconut cubes..

Using urad dhal helps them spread the batter well. I make appam batter in either way and both tastes equally good. I do not know about using urad dal in appam. This can be prepared without Urad dal. (This way traditional vellappam is prepared). Mix Jaggery to get Sweet Appam.