I had to research a bit to get the traditional taste of this Kerala- Christian dish. We used to get it from our Christian neighbors during Christmas time. In the conventional way Orappam (ഒരപ്പം) is prepared in a special made earthen pot (ഒരപ്പ ചട്ടി) and baked with coconut shell charcoal fire. I used preheated oven and oven safe tray instead. The taste, I would say is close to the traditional method even here… Try it out!
Ingredients
- Rice flour : 2 cup
- Thin coconut milk : 3 cup
- Thick coconut milk : 2 cup
- Water : 2 cup
- Jaggery : 2 cup
- Egg : 1
- Egg white : 2
- Fennel powder : less than 1/4 T sp.
- Ghee : 1/4 cup.
- Coconut oil : 1/4 cup.
- Cashew nuts
- Raisins
- Pea nut/Cashew nut
Method
- Break the eggs and beat well.
- Boil 2 cups of water and add the jaggery . Wait until the jaggery dissolves completely.
- Filter the jaggery syrup for removing the dirt from the jaggery.
Wait for the syrup completely cool down. - Fry the nuts and raisins in ghee
- In a kadai /pan add the thin coconut milk and dilute the rice flour without any lumps.
- In the mixture add the jaggery syrup, egg ,fennel powder and the thick coconut milk.
- Mix everything without any lumps .
- Keep the kadai on the stove while continue stirring it.
Keep on stirring without any break , make sure no lumps .
- Once the mixture starts thickening, add the fried nuts and raisins.
- Add the coconut oil a little at a time
- Keep on stirring until the mixture thickens and the water evaporated completely. At this point we can see the oil oozes out from the mixture.
- Take out the kadai from the stove.
- Grease an oven safe dish or tray with ghee.
- Pour the mixture to the tray and level it with spatula.
- Sprinkle the coconut oil on the top.
- Preheat the oven 375 degree
- Bake the mix for about 25 min.
- Once it Cool down, cut it to desired shapes.
Tips:
- I kept the Orappam in room temperature for overnight to get its conventional taste and aroma.
- Also for better traditional taste, you can add palm jaggery instead of normal jaggery.
- Feel free to adjust the amount of Coconut milk , jaggery , ghee to individual taste.
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