The Daring Kitchen -- Appam and Curry (sort of)

Mary, who writes the delicious blog, Mary Mary Culinary was our August Daring Cooks’ host. Mary chose to show us how delicious South Indian cuisine is! She challenged us to make Appam and another South Indian/Sri Lankan dish to go with the warm flat bread.


The Boy and I are late on this one because I have been traveling for work all summer and am having a hard time keeping up.  The Boy actually did the Appam and I made a spicy roasted green "hatch" chili, corn, red bell pepper and pork rib (leftovers) hash to go with it.  The hash was basically just putting stuff together that we had around the kitchen but it turn out pretty good.  It was spicy, nice to get some hot hatch chilis for a change.

I was a little dubious on the Appam and the first few were complete failures to cook, but after some adjustments to pan temperature and batter amounts, they started coming out okay.  It took some time before I could really get into the flavor of the Appam but The Boy liked them right off.  I found if I got them a little toasty, they tasted better to me.

Plating this time was not fantastic, but I was really impressed by The Boys presentation.  We are starting to both plate and in the future you will see both plates.  Feel free to comment on which one you think is better. I am not going so which is which, so if you do comment just indicate which color plate you like. So on with the plates.