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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

|Venad| Maundy Thursday Special - Pesaha Appam (Recipe)

Description	Pesaha Appam (Maundy Thursday Bread without Yeast)
Cuisine Style	Kerala Cuisine

This is a bread by Kerala catholics on Maundy Thursday and would be cut by the head of the family and dipped in the sauce and given to the rest of the family.

Ingredients
For Appam:- Rice flour - 2 cups Urad(Whole)(Uzhunnu) - 1 cup (soaked overnight in water) Grated coconut - 1 1/2 cups Salt - 1/2 tsp or as reqd Red or small onion(Kunjulli) - 1 no (blended) For Sauce:- Molasses(Sharkkara) - 400 gm(depends on the sweetness you need) Rice flour - 4 - 5 tbsp Coconut milk - 1 can or milk from 1 fresh coconut is better Cardamom(Elakka) - 5 nos (powdered)

Preparation Method
For making appam:- 1)Grind together rice flour, uzhunnu, coconut and salt to get a batter, the consistency of that of idli batter. 2)Grease preferably steel plates of medium round shape. 3)Pour batter in one and make a cross of palm leaf obtained on palm sunday on it. 4)Steam till well done. :- Test with a toothpick. 5)Make all other appams the same way but with no cross. :- Dhokla Stand is very good for this. For making sauce:- 1)Place molasses in a saucepan. 2)Add some water and heat well. 3)Allow it to boil. While boiling, a lather forms. 4)Strain the above liquid molasses. 5)Mix together coconut milk and rice flour with cardamom powder and pour the mixture into melted molasses and stir continuously, till it becomes a thick sauce. :- Make sure no lumps are formed. :- As the tradition goes, the head of the family cuts the appam and gives it to other members, oldest to youngest respectively, after dipping in Sauce. This is done in great reverence and in a pious atmosphere.

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