KUTHIRAIVALI KARUMBU CHAARU APPAM / BARNYARD MILLET SUGARCANE APPAM

Barnyard Millet/ kuthuraivali, has amazing health benefits. Nowadays, people have started replacing white rice with these millets. They help us to retain good physical fitness, reduce diabetes, an excellent anti oxidant, have lot of iron, hence prevent anaemia, rich in dietary fibre and prevent constipation.

In the sugarcane series we have another recipe with millet, kuthiravali / barnyard millet sugarcane neyyappam.

These appams are so soft, porous, tasty and spongy. Let's see the recipe.

INGREDIENTS

  Kuthuraivali rice / barnyard millet – 1 Cup

Sugarcane juice                                        – 1 Cup

 Aval rice flakes (thin)                            – 3/4 cup

 Fresh grated coconut                            – 1 cup

 Jaggery ( powdered)                                - ¼ cup

 Cardamom powder                                 – 1 tsp

Dry ginger powder/ chukka podi     – ½ tsp

 Salt                                                                 – a pinch

Ghee or oil                                                   - for frying appam

METHOD

Wash the rice and soak it for two hours.

Soak the aval/ rice flakes in ½ a cup of sugarcane juice.

Grind the rice and aval to a fine paste with remaining cane juice and add grated fresh coconut,and jiggery.(no need to add water while grinding)

Ferment the batter for 5 hours and add cardamom powder.

Heat appam pan add oil or ghee to it and heat it.

Pour the batter in each moulds and fry it in a medium flame.

Fry on both sides till golden colour.

Kuthiraivali / barnyard sugarcane neyappam is ready to serve.