IDIYAPPAM | ഇടിയപ്പം | Nool Puttu Recipe
TIME :
Preparation time: 10 minutesCooking time: 10 minutes
INGREDIENTS:
- 2 cups of rice flour
- 2 to 2.5 cups of water (more or less)
- To taste: salt
- 3-4 tbsp of grated coconut
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Mix the rice flour and salt together. Heat the water until bubbles start appearing at the bottom of the pan. When the water is just about boiling, add to the rice flour a cup at a time.
2. Start mixing vigorously with the back of a spatula until the rice flour is coming together to form a moist dough. Add more rice flour if your dough is too watery and sticky and add more water if it's too dry.
The dough should be just moist and you should be able to form a small ball easily without it sticking to your fingers.
3. Working quickly while the dough is still warm, Take a fistful of it and form into a log.
4. Place firmly into your idiyappam press or mould.
5. Sprinkle some coconut over the tray or plate you are going to use to steam the idiyappam. Suma uses a banana leaf which she places on the steamer plate and it lends a wonderful flavour to the idiyappam.
6. Start pressing the idiyappam onto the tray or banana leaf in a concentric circle
... until you have a not-too-thick mound of idiyappam
Make sure it's not too thick otherwise it won't steam properly. PS: you can totally use your idli mould for this. The idiyappam pieces will just be much smaller
7. Place on streamer.
8. Steam for about 10 mins.
9. Open, unmould, and enjoy hot with some Kerala potato stew.
NOTES :
- All measurements for this recipe are approximate since Suma just dumped the flour and water together before I could measure it exactly. Please take care while mixing the dough, that's the trickiest part and takes a little bit of practice
- Don't use boiling water since that will cook the rice flour and make it hard to press. The water just needs to be very hot
- If the idiyappam dough is too dry, it won't be easy to press
- Use regular rice flour or those marked as idiyappam flour. If the rice flour is too glutinous, the idiyappam won't taste good
- Sprinkle more coconut on top before serving if that makes you happy
