by Selvi Senthil Nathan Healthy Wealthy Recipes.com
Ragi appam is an alternate to our usual appam made with white rice. No need to compromise its softness or sponginess.
Yes, this is an easy to make appam recipe with a millet flour. Make a perfect appam batter on the go and enjoy a soft sponge appam!
Make this batter in the night within 15 minutes and enjoy a healthy nutritious appam in the morning (no yeast) or after an hour in dinner (with yeast).
Rich in calcium and the best non-dairy source of calcium. Helps manage diabetes because of its low GI and rich fiber. Also, Aids in weight loss as rich in fiber. Gluten free and a good source of iron. Improves heart health and supports digestive health.
Soak urad dal and fenugreek seeds after washing thoroughly.
After the urad dal and fenugreek seed gets soaked, grind it to a nice smooth butter like batter by sprinkle water little by little.
Take 2 teaspoons of ragi flour in a small sauce pan and add quarter cup of water into it. Mix well without any lumps. Put this on stove. Cook till a sticky thick paste in low flame.
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Extract coconut milk if you want to use coconut milk to combine flour. I used water to combine the batter.
Once the ragi flour paste cooled down, mix it with the remaining ragi flour. Add this batter with urad dal batter and give it a good mix. Add water or coconut milk to get right consistency (dosa batter). Add salt to taste and mix well. Leave it for 8 hours or overnight to ferment.
Heat an appam pan or dosa tawa and make appams as usual. Close it with a lid and let it cook in slow flame for 3 to 5 minutes. Our soft sponge ragi appams are ready now.
Enjoy this healthy ragi appam with coconut milk or stew or with egg curry or with kadala curry.