Instant Appe

Ingredients:

For batter:

1. 1 cup fine semolina/ rava
2. ½ cup yogurt
3. 1 teaspoon Eno Fruit Salt
4. ½ inch grated ginger
5. 2 tablespoon finely chopped onion
6. Salt to taste

For tempering:

1. 1-2 teaspoon oil
2. 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
3. 1 teaspoon urad dal
4. 10-12 curry leaves
5. A pinch of asafoetida/hing
6. 10- 12 cashews
7. 2-3 dry red chillies

Method :

1. Add semolina, yogurt, chopped onion, chopped ginger and salt in a bowl.
2. Add water to make a batter of desired consistency. Keep the mixture aside.
3. For tempering heat 2 tsp oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and urad dal. When mustard seeds splutter add curry leaves, dry red chillies & asafoetida. Add this tempering to the semolina.
4. Add some water to adjust the consisitency of batter.
5. Heat the appe mould on a medium flame and grease it lightly with oil.
6. Add Eno Fruit Salt alongwith 1 tablespoon of water in the batter and mix it well.
7. Immediately pour a spoonful of the batter into each mould and cook it till the outer surface becomes golden brown.
8. Turn each appe upside down using a fork to cook from the other side.
9. Repeat with the remaining batter to make more appes.
10. Serve hot with coconut chutney.