Nei Appam

Ingredients –

Raw rice –         1 cup

Jaggery –           1 cup

Cardamom powder –   1/4 tsp

Ghee –                           1tbsp

Oil

Method –

Soak rice in water for 2 hours. Grind the rice first and then add the jaggery to the rice paste and grind together. The batter should be thicker than a dosa batter. Add cardamom and ghee. Heat the appam pan / paniyaram pan. Add ghee / oil in each hole. When the ghee /oil is warm pour a full spoon of batter. When its cooked on one side turn it and cook the other side. Remove appam and enjoy sweet appam. Use a wooden skewer to turn and remove the appam.( If you are using jaggery that has impurities, first mix together jaggery and water, heat it, strain the impurities and then grind rice with this jaggery water.)