Appalam - South indian special

Appalam

Ingredients :

• Appalam flour/urud flour- 1/4 kg
• Rice flour - 1/2 cup
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
• Baking soda - a pinch
• Pirandai - 10 bits
• Castor oil - 1 tsp
• Ghee or coconut oil - 6 tsp

Method :

Grind pirandai and salt nicely.Add 1/2 cup water and boil.Add baking soda. Filter the water and add this to urud flour. Add asafoetida, cumin seeds and castor oil.Knead it to a hard dough.Now add ghee and make it very soft.Using this dough, make thin appalams using a chappathi roller.Dry the appalams the next day in hot sun.