Idiyappam recipe
Idiyappam recipe, a south Indian steamed dish with rice flour as main ingredient. It is prepared mostly for Breakfast.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Rice flour (or idiyappam flour)
- Water as needed
- Salt
- 2 tsp Sesame oil (Divided)
Instructions
- 1
Boil water firstly in a sauce pan. For 1/2 cup flour, I boiled 1 & 1/2 cup water, though fully may not be required.
- 2
Let it come to rolling boil, meanwhile, take flour, salt and a tsp of sesame oil in mixing bowl.
- 3
Add the boiling water little by little and mix using spatula to incorporate it to the flour.
- 4
Once crumbly, carefully add water and knead in mashing way using the spatula itself.
- 5
When dough is formed without any dry flour, keep covered for 5 mins.
- 6
After that, once enough to handle, grease your hands with sesame oil. Knead well.
- 7
The dough should be smooth, non-sticky without any cracks.
- 8
Keep always covered to avoid drying. Especially when you make large quantity.
- 9
To make idiyappam, take required portion of dough, just to fill 3/4 of the press.
- 10
If you fill fully, it is hard to squeeze, so just 3/4th or little more than that.
- 11
Either over a greased idli plate or the idiyappam steamer, press the idiyappam as a layer or two.
- 12
Boil water in idli pot/ steamer, place it inside. Close lid.
- 13
Meanwhile you can grease the other and squeeze over it, fill the press again.
- 14
By now the idiyappam would have got steamed (depends also on the pot size. Mine is small so gets cooked super fast in between this time itself).
- 15
If your idli pot/ steamer is big, then you can place several numbers of the idiyappam mesh together and steam.
- 16
So adjust cooking time accordingly. How ever, after steam rises it is just matter of couple of minutes.
- 17
Immediately take out and invert over a plate and store in a hot pack/ bowl/ casserole.
- 18
If you want to prepare variety idiyappam, you can separate the strings when it is warm itself. Just gently shake to break roughly.
- 19
No need to do it completely as while you mix, it will get separated by itself.
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