Traditional food Receipy

Appa( Hoppers)

2 cups white long grain Rice3/4 cup THICK Coconut milk or
Evaporated milk
1 tbs Cooked white Rice
1 tsp dry Yeast
1/2 tsp Sugar
2 tbs lucke warm water
1-2 cups THIN Coconut milk or diluted Evap. milk
Eggs METHOD night (or until soft).

• Add yeast and sugar into luke warm water and set aside.
• Drain water from cooked rice.
• Blend the soaked rice, milk and cooked rice in a blender until thick and creamy (The consistancy should be that of thick cream).
• Transfer into a bowl and add the foamy yeast mixture. Mix well.
• Close and leave in a warm placefor at least 6 hrs.
• Add thin warm coconut (or diluted evap. milk) to the thick batter while stirring (The consistancy of the batter should be similar to pan-cake batter).
• Add salt to taste.
• Pour spoon fuls into heated, greased hopper-pan (Can experiment with a Chinese wok, which is similar in shape to a hopper-pan)
• make sure that the inside of the pan is well covered with the batter.
• Close with lid and cook until done.
• To make egg hoppers, cover the inside of the pan with the batter by swerling it (same as before) and then crack-drop an egg to the center, close with lid and cook until done.

Idi Appa ( String Hoppers)

• In a dry bowl take two cups roasted rice flour (flour should be fine & free flowing without clumps).
  
  
• Add 1 tsp table salt, mix well.
  
  
• Let 4 cups of water boil vigorously. Gradually add the boiling water to rice flour until you can form a dough that does not stick to the bowl (It is important that you get the right consistency of the dough, to get the right texture of the string hoppers - light, fluffy & dry to the touch. Also without the right consistency, it will be hard to squeeze the fine strings through the mold).
  
  
• Fill the mold with dough and squeeze the fine strings of flour on to the watties to form lacy circles.
  
  
• Stack the watties on top of each other and steam until done.

Kiri Bath ( Milk Rice)

4 cups of white rice
Cream of 1 coconut (or one 13 oz can)
salt to taste


Method

Clean and wash the rice. Put the rice in a pan, stick in the
index finger on surface of rice and fill water upto slightly above
the 2nd joint of the index finger. Cover and cook the the rice
under low heat.

When the rice is almost done, mix the salt with the coconut
milk and add to the rice stir and cook for a few more minutes.

Serve the hot rice on to a platter and flatten it using flat spoon
or spatula. Cut it into squares and serve with Seeni sambol,
cutta sambol or juggery.

Pittu

Ingredients:
250 g flour, rice
250 g coconut
1/2 ts salt water, hot
180 ml coconut milk, thick

Method:
Roast and sieve the flour well. Grate the coconut. Place the flour
in a bowl and add the salt. Slowly pour in the hot water, mixing
with your fingers as you do so until it resembles bread crumbs. Add
the grated coconut and mix well in. Place the mixture in the pittu
mould and place over a pan of boiling water until steam emerges from
the top of the pittu mould. Cover with half a coconut shell and steam
for a further 5 minutes or until done.