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.