We are heading towards celebrating our 70th republic day. As a country India has nurtured rich food traditions through centuries. Our age old methods of preparation of varieties of food have seamlessly blended with our lifestyles and regional and national identities. Each part of the Indian subcontinent has many interesting mains and sides. Appalam is one side that has set South Indian cuisine apart from the rest.
Back in the olden days, many South Indian families used to make their own appalams. The home made dough is rolled into individual appalams, sun-dried and stored in the pantries for months. Popodax has brought the gems of those memories back with their bite sized appalams. Over the last forty years, Popodax has perfected the same procedure in making the dough with quality urad dal and spices that are pounded to perfection from which bite sized appalams are made.
The making of appalam in the olden days used to be a social exercise- ladies from the household getting together to manually roll out the circular discs. Now Popodax's mechanised processes render the manufacturing precise, clean and on a large scale. Appalam is a perfect match to the typical South Indian meal- bringing in a nurturing addition of protein to the sumptuous fare.
Even better than the much popular South Indian Sambhar and its watery cousin Rasam, appalam pairs well with the simpler, lighter, spicier, lentil-free preparation, Kara kuzhambu. The best way to have appalam with the said kuzhambu is to have it toasted. In fact 'Kara kuzhambu and sutta appalam' is a kind of combination that has never lost its appeal even in the current times. And with Popodax ready to eat appalams you can enjoy the cult combination effortlessly. Try this on a rainy evening and you would doubtlessly be in a food heaven.
Popodax stands as a bridge to the food traditions we have left behind in our verve to move forward. Lanson’s appalams has found a place of liking even in the royal kitchens in U.K. Now Popodax is engaged in bringing back the long forgotten appalams to the millennial Indian youth in a reinvented, innovative package. Along with Popodax comes the rich legacy of food tradition in South India, one our grandmothers had worked hard to inculcate.
This republic day let us take a walk back into our rich past, unearth our traditional culinary gems and take them back with us to the future. Popodax joins you all in reconnecting with our roots, our legacy. Jaihind.