Ingredients

• 3 cups - rice powder
• 4 cups - milk
• 3/4 - coconut grated
• 1 tsp - yeast or a small glass of toddy
• Sugar and salt as required

How to Make Paalappam

• Add yeast or toddy to the rice powder and sufficient water. Let it ferment overnight.
• In the morning, add milk, sugar, salt and mix thoroughly.
• Heat a cast iron kadai or chatti, grease its surface evenly with a little oil if required.
• Pour one small round ladle full of mixture into the kadai and rotate it manually using gloves, so that the mixture spreads evenly on the surface of the kadai.
• Then cover it with a lid and cook till the edges of the appam turns light brown.
• Remove the appam from the kadai.
• Serve hot with stew or milk.