Appe

Ingredients
1/2 cup fine Sooji (rava)
1 small onion
cup idli rava
cup rice flour
2 Tbsps yougurt/cream
3-5 green chillies
1 Tbsp jeera (cumin)
tsp baking soda
Coriander leaves
Salt, oil
Curry leaves

Instructions
1. Chop the onions and coriander leaves finely.
2. Mix all the above ingredients except oil into a thick paste. Add
little water to thin it out a little.
3. Check for salt and other seasonings. Add more as per taste.
4. Heat the Appe/ Appam pan and add 1 tsp oil into each groove.
5. Make sure that the oil has become hot (not smoking hot).
Drop a bit of batter to test and if you hear the sizzling sound,
the oil is of the right temperature.
6. Add the prepared sooji batter into each of the grove, so that
of the grove is covered and then cover it with a lid.
7. Reduce the heat a little bit at this time. After a minute or so,
open the lid and with a kitchen knife, run it around the edge of
the appe, to see if it is browning.
8. Make sure the appe does not turn dark brown or black in
color. The one in the middle is the one that gets dark fast.
9. If some of the appe can be easily displaced from the grove turn
it on the other side, add oil and cook until done. Let the
remaining appe cook correctly and turn them when done.
When turned on the other side, add oil again and reduce the
heat even further and there is no need to cover with lid. This
side gets done pretty fast.