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Kallappam/ Laced Rice and Coconut pancake

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The Kerala breakfast consists of puttu and payrau, dosa and chutney, idly and sambar and Kallappam/palappam with potato stew etc. If you are non-veggie, there will be meat dishes. Look closely at all these dishes, and you can find amazing combination of balanced carbohydrates and protein contents. Puttu and idly are steamed dishes, where as Dosa and kallappam are crepes and pancakes.
As typical of a south Indian home, I usually would have dosa/idly batter in stock in my refrigerator. My little one loves Dosa but is not too fond of Idly. Amma used to makes dosa or idly every day and puttu and appam on weekend. I don’t have that luxury, so I make it whenever I get some time. I was planning to make this kallappam for long time, and finally made it for our dinner. Next agenda is to make famous vattayappam/ Steamed sweetened rice cake.
Kallappam means pancake made from Toddy/ Kallu in Malayalam. Here getting “kallu” is not possible, instead I used yeast to help fermentation of pancake batter. I also used fresh coconut and coconut water along with cumin, cooked rice and some red onion. Usually shallots are used instead of red onion, which I didn’t have in my hand. When you give some job to yeast, if it likes it will work at its maximum ability and final product will be delicious laced pancake. Now I think I am establishing some friendship with yeast. Some places in Kerala this kallappam is also called Vellayappam, however amma make a different method for palappam using raw rice, some semolina, grated coconut and yeast. I used the kallappam recipe from this blog. You need a spicy curry to go along with it. I depend on my same old faithful chana masala you can try any curry you want. Here goes the recipe.

What you need

Raw rice: 2cups (soak the rice for about 6 hours or overnight)
Cooked rice: 1 cup
Grated coconut: 1 cup ( I used fresh )
Cumin seeds: ½ teaspoon
Red onion: 1 tablespoon (use shallots if you have in hand)
Yeast: ¼ teaspoon ( I used active dry yeast)
Salt: ¼ teaspoon
Sugar: 1 teaspoon (if you want sugar add 1 more teaspoon)
Coconut water: 1 cup ( if you don’t have in hand, substitute with water)
Water: 3 tablespoon+ 4 cup water for soaking the rice

How I made

Soak the raw rice for 6 hours or overnight.
In a small bowl add 2 tablespoon of luke warm water, sugar and yeast set aside.
Grind all ingredients expect salt, sugar and yeast into a fine paste.  To this add yeast sugar mixture and set aside for fermentation about 8 hours.
When you are ready to make the kallappam add salt  and set aside for 5 minutes.
Heat a griddle or skillet over medium low heat  until a drop of water sizzles when added. Then add  or brush the skillet with   one teaspoon oil  ( if you adding oil, you need to swirl the skillet to make it spread uniformly) to  prevent pancakes from sticking to the bottom. Using a ladle pour the batter into the pan.Cook the pancakes on 1 side until they are set by covering  with lid, after 1 ½ minutes flip the pancakes and cook until golden on both sides it takes another 1 ½ minutes. Transfer pancakes to a plate while you make the rest.

 

Enjoy with any spicy curry

Preparation time: 1 hour and 10 minutes+ 6 hour soaking time+ 8 hours fermentation time.
Yield: 18no
Verdict: Tasty
Will you make it again: yes I will

Swathi

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  1. Nisa Homey says

    kallapam is looking fluffy and yummy....love it.

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  2. Swathi says

    Caroline, glad that you and your family loved kallappam. May be you need little more oil in the pan. so that stickyness will be reduced. Thanks once again for trying.

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  3. Dutch Milkmaid says

    It was! I served some fresh lime with it and my family couldn't stop eating. And the kallapam was lovely. The batter was very sticky and I don't have non-stickpan, so they didn't look as pretty as yours, but they tasted heavenly. Thanks for the recipe. I am now soaking peas...

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  4. Swathi says

    Caroline,

    The prawn and potato/paneer etc curry seems to be wonderful combo for this kallappam.

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  5. Swathi says

    Red onions (or shallots) should be ground along with soaked raw rice, cumin, coconut, coconut water

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  6. Dutch Milkmaid says

    Hi Swathi,
    Thank you for reacting.
    I now have another question, where does the onion come in to play?
    I have the paste fermenting on my countertop and will serve it on Sunday with a prawn curry, a potato/paneer/soybean curry and some mango.
    Best regards,
    Caroline

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  7. Swathi says

    Caroline,

    Thanks for letting me know about the missing instructions, cooked rice, should grind along with soaked raw rice, cumin, shallot, coconut, coconut water.

    Let me know the outcome and if you need any help

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  8. Dutch Milkmaid says

    Hi, what a lovely recipe. I'm going to make it tomorrow (the rice is already soaking). In the ingredients you mention one cup cooked rice. In the preparations, this has disappeared. When do I add it to the mixture? Tnx!
    Caroline

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  9. Gulmohar says

    My most fav bf 🙂 never get tired of this

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  10. Padhu says

    Looks delicious!!

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  11. Satya says

    pancakes looks so soft ,cute n tempting ....very new dish for me ...bookmarked ...beautiful presentation makes me drooling here

    Satya
    http://www.superyummyrecipes.com

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  12. Joanne says

    Oh wow! I've never heard of pancakes like this but I love the sound of them!

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  13. fancythatfancythis.com says

    Even though my dad is from Lucknow my favorite kinds of Indian foods are from south India. I love dosh and idli and sambar...this is such a delicious recipe!

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  14. Nupur says

    Thanks for the entry.

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  15. Sanyukta Gour(Bayes) says

    looks yum n delicious...simply mouthwatering..

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  16. Poonam says

    Gotta learn a lot from you

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  17. Usha says

    Looks delicious, lovely combination !

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  18. Sarah Naveen says

    its been sometime i made this..looks super yummy!!!

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  19. Rachana says

    Those pancakes look so soft and yumm! Lovely write up!

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  21. Bergamot says

    The pancakes/ dosa look really soft and delicous...

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  22. Sushma Mallya says

    Thats new and very lovely recipe, looks very delicious...

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  23. PranisKitchen says

    thats a very deliicous appam kallappam i was wondering how u made the kallu.. very nice combo swathi.. good one

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  24. Nitha says

    appam looks delicious..

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  25. Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal says

    Wow, interesting recipe, very new and amazing pics 🙂

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  26. Faith says

    What delicious little pancakes! I bet they were delicious with the chana masala!

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  27. Reeni says

    So much time goes into making these! So delicious looking! I bet they are extra special!

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  28. Indie.Tea says

    Yum...palappums...my favorite Indian bread (I prefer rice to curry most of the time but I'll make an exception for palappums...I even have a palappum pan).

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  29. Vrinda says

    My all time fav..perfect comfort food..

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  30. Jay says

    lovely pancakes...looks so perfect n inviting...my all time fav.

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  31. kitchen queen says

    lovely droolworthy and yummilicious appams with a detailed demo.

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  32. Nithya says

    Wow.. this is interesting 🙂 yummy too

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  33. Sreelekha Sumesh says

    Kallappam looks delicious and perfect Swathi:)

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  35. Ms.Chitchat says

    Delicious looking kallappams. Enjoyed the write-up too.

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  36. Kamalika says

    perfect pancakes....looks very tasty too.....loved to read the info about Kallappam...

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  37. Viki's Kitchen says

    Appam looks fantastic dear. Very beautiful presentation.

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  38. aipi says

    they look soft, round, perfect and mouthwatering..lovely

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  39. Suman Singh says

    This is great..love all those south indian dishes..especially dosa's varieties..yumm

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  40. Hari Chandana says

    wowwww.. looks simply amazing.. fantastic job dear !!

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