Friday, October 23, 2009

Onion Uthappam


Uthappam is a type of dosa which will be thick it will be really soft there many types of uthappam like tomato uthappam,onion uthappam etc...this is just plain uthappam.

Ingredients:

To grind:

BoiledRice/idly rice - 1 cup
Raw rice(pacha arisi) - 1 cup
Urad dhal(ulandham parupu) - 1/2 cup
Methi seeds(vendhayam) - 1 table spoon
Salt - as needed

To garnish:

Onion -1 1/2 medium sized(chop it finely)
Green chilly - 3 nos(chop it finely)
Coriander leaves - 4 table spoon
Channa dhal( kadalai parupu) - 1 1/2 table spoon
Mustard seeds - 1 teaspoon
Urad dhal (ulundham parupu) - 1/2 teaspoon
Curry leaves - 7 leaves (optional)
Oil - 2 table spoons

Method :

1.Wash and soak The things that should be ground and allow it to ferment over night.The next day you can see the batter will be raised.

2.Now in a kadai pour the oil when it gets hot add mustard when it splatters add channa dhal ,uraddhal when they turn to golden brown add the chopped onions along with curry leaves and green chilly ,when the onion turns transparent stop the flame.

3. Now the fried onion ready to be sprinkled.

4.Now place the dosa tawa in the stove when it gets hot grease it with oil and pour 1/4 cup of batter and spread it in circular motion make the circle really small because uthappam is supposed to be thick and small now sprinkle the fried onion .Now pour oil to its sides and cover it with the lid.

5.After a 15 seconds using the spatula flip the dosa so that it gets cooked in other side too.

Now onion uthappam is ready... If you have lot of holes in the uthappam then it shows that your uthappam is soft....

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