Appam without baking soda. As I have not added cooking soda or baking powder or banana, this appam will not be spongy. It will be a little crisp on the outside and soft on the inside You can also give this healthy snack to your kids after they get back from school. Today we will learn how to make sweet appam without baking soda.

I transferred one third of the batter. No yeast appam with step by step photos. Here's a recipe of soft hoppers also called as appam. You can cook Appam without baking soda using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Appam without baking soda

It's 1 cup of Normal rice.
It's 1 cup of Idli rice.
It's 1/4 cup of urad dal.
Prepare 1 tsp of Fenugreek seeds.
Prepare to taste of Salt -.
It's as needed of Oil.

This version of appam is made without yeast. You will see bubbles in the batter after adding baking soda.you can also add eno fruit salt, instead of baking soda. Rice, urad dal and fenugreek seeds as main ingredients. Fenugreek seeds helps batter to ferment well and gives porous texture.

Appam without baking soda step by step

Clean and soak all ingredients except salt for 5-6 hours. I am using Fenugreek seeds(vendhayam) instead of baking soda..
Grind the soaked ingredients in mixie jar, since the quantity is less. The consistency should be like idli batter. It's better to soak in the afternoon and grind during dinner time. Add required amount of salt and leave it for fermentation overnight..
Next day the batter will be fermented.Now take small portion in a bowl and add little water.It should be in running consistency..
Heat the appam pan.I am using non-stick pan.Add little oil and do spread the oil by spinning the pan slowly..
Once the pan is heated, keep it in low flame.Take one laddle batter and pour it in the pan and immediately spin the pan slowly either in clockwise or anticlockwise direction by holding the pan handle in your hands. You can spin twice or thrice for outer layer thickness. Make sure more batter is left in the middle of the pan after spinning..
Now cover it with the lid. Sides come off the pan and middle part will look soft like idli, once it's done.You don't need to turn the appam..
With a wooden spatula take the appam gently. Follow the above steps again to make appam again. Serve appam with coconut milk/ vegetable stew /white Kurma of your choice 🙂..
To notice:. 1. If batter is fermented properly, you can see many air bubbles popup while making appam(eg.like uthappam). 2.you can add oil while closing the lid,this gives crispy brown layer. 3.Dont over heat the pan and do not open the lid very often..

This is my way of making appam, we all like it to have with coconut milk sweetened with jaggery and flavoured with cardamom! When you are ready to make appam. Take the batter and add salt, sugar, baking soda in this and mix well. Pour some water and make it little thinner in consistency. Baking soda is used in baking as a leavening agent.