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Appe and Coconut Chutney - Hema's Recipe


Ingredients

1 Cup Urad dal
1 Cup Roasted Semolina ( jaada \ coarse Sooji)
1 inch Ginger finely chopped
4 green chillies Chopped
A piece of fresh coconut chopped
Handful of Coriander leaves finely chopped
7 to 8 Curry Leaves chopped
Salt to Taste
Oil to Grease

Method

Soak Urad Dal for two hours.
Grind with a little water to smooth paste and leave overnight to ferment.
Roast Semolina in a dry pan and cool the evening before.

Next day morning:
Mix all the ingredients ( dal + sooji + green chillies+ ginger+ coriander leaves + Coconut. Add salt to taste

Grease Appe Patram with a brush. Heat and add one tspn of batter and let it cook. Turn the appe upside down and sprinkle some more oil to cook.

Serve hot with Coconut Chutney.


For Chutney

Ingredients 

1 small fresh grated Coconut
A handful of Dalia ( roasted channa dal)
Salt to taste
4 green chillies
1 tspn curd
1/4th tspn sugar


Method

Grind all ingredients in a mixer grinder. Add a little water to bring it to the chutney consistency.

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