Idiyappam Recipe

Idiyappam is one of the most popular dish in South India. It can be even called as rice noodles. This food can be given to even small kids. It is digested so easily and also everyone love the soft texture of the food.

Let us see how to prepare idiyappam from the scratch.

Ingredients:

1 cup rice soaked in water - for atleast 3 hrs

You can use either idli rice or normal rice for soaking. The rice should be soaked completely as if we soak for preparing idli batter.

Servings: 3 Adults

Method:

Grind the soaked rice in grinder. Grind it to a fine and soft batter. It can be even watery, need not be very thick.

You can opt any one of the following 2 methods for making the loose batter into a idiyappam consistent solid batter.

Method 1:

Heat a flat base pan in medium flame. Once the pan is heated, pour the batter.

Gradually the batter loses its water and starts to solidify. You have to continuously stir the batter in the pan so that it creates lesser lumps.

While stirring you can sprinkle little oil to the pan. At one stage, the batter will not stick to the pan. At this stage, switch off the flame.

Allow it to cool a bit. When it is as warm as you can handle it, give some press to the batter with your hand. Now take the batter and place it in the idiyappam squeezer. Squeeze it and boil either in idli cooker or idli pan.

The remaining batter can be stored in refrigerator for future use. Try to finish the stored batter in maximum of 4 days.

Method 2:

Pour the loose batter (the one we grind it in the grinder. Its consistency should be like idli batter) in the idli cooker or idli pan and make idlis.

Since the idlis are prepared with only rice, they will not  be so soft.

Now place the hot idlis in the idiyappam squeezer and squeeze it in a plate. This can be directly consumed, because the batter is already boiled.

Here also, the remaining batter can be refrigerated.

Note: In both the methods, try to squeeze when the batter / idli is hot. When hot, it will be more soft to squeeze.
Idiyappam prepared using method 1 will be more softer than method 2. But method 1 gives you really a hard exercise for your arms.