| 释义 |
appam, n.
Brit. |əˈpam|, U.S. |əˈpɑm|
Plural unchanged, -s
Forms: 19– apam, 19– appam
[‹ Tamil appam and Malayalam appam.]
In South and South-East Asian cookery: a thin pancake made with rice flour (typically fermented with toddy or yeast) and coconut or coconut milk.
1972K. Chaitanya Kerala 194 Appam, a pancake made of rice flour, fermented by a small dose of coconut-palm toddy. 1985R. Fernandez Malaysian Cookery 19 All the above dishes were served cold with bread and appam. 1995New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 2 June 23 The batter of coconut milk and rice flour is ladled into the holes, and some chopped spring onions sprinkled into each apam. 2001C. Madhavan Paddy Indian xv. 169 The appams with their crisp lacy rims and soft tender centres were placed in front of Raja Patel. |