You are here: Home > Videos > Cuisine Recipes > Indian Veg Recipes > South Indian Recipes > South Indian Appe Recipes > Rice Appe Video by Tarla Dalal Rice Appe Video by Tarla Dalal Viewed 24038 times Rice Appe Video. Rice Appe is a simply awesome snack, which can be had as a tea-time treat or served along with idli, pongal, dosa or khichdi to add more josh to your breakfast. Made by cooking a fermented batter of rice and urad dal in an appe mould, the appe are crisp outside but soft and spongy inside. A tempering of mustard and cumin seeds together with onions and crushed peanuts give the Rice Appe an amazing taste and mouth-feel, which make it enticing to young and old alike. You can enjoy the appe just plain or with your choice of sambhar and chutney. Make sure you serve it immediately to enjoy the nice crispness. Once it cools, the crisp outer tends to harden and get a bit chewy. Tweet Recipe Description for Rice Appe ( How To Make Rice Appe ) Soaking Time: 2 hoursPreparation Time: 15 minsFermenting Time: 8 hoursCooking Time: 25 mins Makes 21 appes Show me for appes Ingredients For Rice Appe1 cup rice (chawal)1/4 cup urad dal (split black lentils)2 tbsp oil1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)1 tsp mustard seeds ( rai / sarson)8 to 10 curry leaves (kadi patta)1/4 tsp asafoetida (hing)1 tsp finely chopped green chillies2 tbsp finely chopped onions1/4 cup coarsely crushed peanuts salt to taste3 3/4 oil for greasing and cookingFor Serving With Rice Appe sambhar green chutney tomato chutney Method For rice appeTo make {span class="bold1"}rice appe{/span}, combine the raw rice and urad dal and enough water in a deep bowl and keep aside to soak for 2 hours. Drain well and keep aside.Blend in a mixer using approx. ½ cup of water till smooth. Transfer the mixture into a deep bowl. Cover with a lid and keep aside to ferment in a warm place for 8 hours.After the batter is fermented, heat the oil in a small non-stick pan, add the cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida and green chillies and sauté on a medium flame for few seconds.Add the onions and peanuts and sauté on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes.Add this tempering to the batter and mix well.Add the salt and mix well.Heat the appe mould on a medium flame and grease it using ¼ tsp of oil.Pour 1 tbsp of the batter into each mould.Cook using 1 tsp of oil till the lower surface becomes golden brown and then turn each appe upside down using a fork so as to cook them from the other side as well.Repeat with the remaining batter to make more {span class="bold1"}rice appes{/span}.Serve the {span class="bold1"}rice appe{/span} immediately with sambhar and green chutney or tomato chutney. See step by step images of Rice Appe ( How To Make Rice Appe ) recipe RECIPE SOURCE : South Indian Recipes