Sri Lankan Hoppers Recipe with Step by Step pictures. Delicious Appam Recipe made with bread, rice flour and yeast. This taste so delicious with egg curry.

Sri Lankan Hoppers Recipe
The basic things is rice, coconut and some fermenting thing..I always wanted to try a version which needs no grinding just made by using rice flour. Finally i found a version when i was watching My Sri lanka with peter kuruvita. He showed a recipe which was made from a piece of bread, coconut milk and rice flour which tempted me to try it. So i made it and loved the result.
My favorite breakfast to try..Till few months ago i have been using my mom's appam batter and it has never failed on me. But later i started experimenting on appam and loved so many version of making them. I have shared all of them in this blog too..I have posted my easy appam with just three ingredients and my coconut milk appam which has yeast in them..
Even though i call this my no grind batter, there is few things which you should grind, which is coconut for coconut milk. I ground the bread mix in the same blender to make my life easier, but he just mixed it by hand. I served this with my keralan egg curry, but you could have it with my potato curry, kadala curry or even chicken curries and mutton curries..

Ingredients for No Grind Appam Batter
- Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu - 500 grams
- Thick Coconut Milk - 1 cup ( First Extract)
- Thin Coconut Milk - 2 cups ( Second Extract)
- White Bread - 1 Big Slice
- Sugar - 2 tblspn
- Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - ¼ tsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for Pan frying
Preparation of Appam Batter with Bread
- Tear the bread slice in a blender, add in sugar and some thin (second extact) coconut milk and blend once.
- Now take rice flour in a large container or bowl, add this mix along with the remaining thin coconut milk and make it into a batter.
- Now set this aside overnight.
- The next morning, you will some fermentation will be going on.
- Now add in the first extract thick coconut milk, salt, baking soda and mix well.
- The batter should be little thin. If the batter is thick, add some water to get the right consistency.
- Heat a pan. Drizzle some oil and wipe it with a tissue paper, this is to season the pan. Pour a ladleful of batter, swirl the pan and cover it. Cook for 1 min till the edges are golden.
- Remove and serve with any curry.
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📖 Recipe

Sri Lankan Hoppers Recipe (Appam with Bread & Rice Flour)
Ingredients
- Rice Flour / Arisi Mavu - 500 grams
- Thick Coconut Milk - 1 cup First Extract
- Thin Coconut Milk - 2 cups Second Extract
- White Bread - 1 Big Slice
- Sugar - 2 tblspn
- Baking Soda / Cooking Soda - ¼ tsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for Pan frying
Instructions
- Tear the bread slice in a blender, add in sugar and some thin (second extact) coconut milk and blend once.
- Now take rice flour in a large container or bowl, add this mix along with the remaining thin coconut milk and make it into a batter.
- Now set this aside overnight.
- The next morning, you will some fermentation will be going on.
- Now add in the first extract thick coconut milk, salt, baking soda and mix well.
- The batter should be little thin. If the batter is thick, add some water to get the right consistency.
- Heat a pan. Drizzle some oil and wipe it with a tissue paper, this is to season the pan. Pour a ladleful of batter, swirl the pan and cover it. Cook for 1 min till the edges are golden.
- Remove and serve with any curry.
Sri Lankan Hoppers Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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Take all your ingredients |
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Take a blender |
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tear the bread piece in |
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pulse it few times to blend |
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add in sugar |
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puree it smoothly |
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take rice flour in a container |
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pour the bread mix |
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some more thin coconut milk |
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mix well |
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cover and let it ferment |
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You can see there was some fermentation going on |
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Now add in thick coconut milk |
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some water |
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make it to a little thin batter |
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add in salt |
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some cooking soda and mix |
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Take your appam pan, non stick is better |
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open the lid |
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wipe it with a oiled tissue |
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pour a ladleful of batter in |
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once it is poured in |
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Swirl to coat on all sides |
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there should be some batter in the middle |
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cover it |
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let it cook till it is golden. Serve |
Nuzie
Raw rice flour or roasted rice flour?