Recipe for Morappam - Tea time snack

This is one of the famous Kerala recipes. We always have remaining Idli Dosa batter  which will be a little sour in the afternoon. Nowadays we have refrigerator to store the batter. When the refrigerators were not there, the batter used to get sour and unusable for the next day. So from that old batter came this recipe.

You will have to have a Unniappa chatti / Paniyara chatti to make these morappams.



Ingredients needed for Morappam

2 cups of Idli / Dosa batter ( slightly sour )

3 green chillies minced nicely

1 tsp grated ginger

2 tbsps finely chopped coconut pieces

2 tbsps Sooji / Rava

a pinch asafoetida

salt to taste ( Remember that the batter has salt already )

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1 tsp Bengal Gram dhal / Channa Dal

oil for frying

2 tbsps chopped curry leaves



How to make Morappam

Heat a tsp of oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds and splutter. Add  channa dal / Kadala paruppu and fry till they are golden. Pour into the Idli batter.

Then add all the chopped ingredients to the batter and mix well.

Heat the Paniyara chatti,  pour oil into the provided holes in the chatti. Then pour a spoonful batter into the holes till they are half full. The oil should cover the appams as you pour the batter.

When they are golden use a small skewer to flip the appams in the pan.

Serve just like that, if needed you can serve a coriander Chutney / Mint Chutney.



Points to Note:

This will make one good evening tea time snack.

You can make this in a jiffy if you have unexpected guests at home.

If you do not have idli batter with you , you can get good packets over the counter from the Supermarkets.