Uttapam is a popular, delicious and wholesome South Indian breakfast dish, similar to the flatter dosa and usually made with the same batter. Adding optional ingredients could up the dish and make it an elaborate gluten-free meal full of healthy nourishment. Moreover, since it is topped with healthy veggies, the dish provides a serving of daily recommended vegetable nutrients. The vegetables also give the dish a colorful appearance that could attract more kids to have their veggies, while having a filling diet with a balance of proteins, vitamins and carbs.<\/p>\n
Total time: 30 minutes.
\nServing: 8 to10<\/p>\n
Ingredients:<\/strong> For the topping:<\/strong> Preparation:<\/strong> Uttapam is a popular, delicious and wholesome South Indian breakfast dish, similar to the flatter dosa and usually made with the same batter. Adding optional ingredients could up the dish and make it an elaborate gluten-free meal full of healthy nourishment. Moreover, since it is topped with healthy veggies, the dish provides a serving of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,10],"tags":[4489,4488,4453],"class_list":["post-78119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chhaya-recipes","category-recipes","tag-chhaya-recipes","tag-gluten-free-uttapam","tag-recipe"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n2 cup soaked chickpeas
\n1\/2 cup soaked rice
\nSalt as per taste
\n1 green chilly
\n1 inch ginger<\/p>\n
\n1 cup onion slice
\n1\/2 cup finely chopped tomatoes
\n1\/2 cup finely chopped capsicum
\n2 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
\nOil for Roasting<\/p>\n
\nDrain the soaked chickpeas and rice, place them in a mixer along with the chilli and ginger pieces.
\nAdd water and mix into a fine batter.
\nRemove the batter, add salt and set aside for a minimum of two hours.
\nStir the batter, adding more water if the initial batter is too thick, to form a medium .consistency batter that flows smoothly.
\nHeat up a pan and spread a little oil on the top.
\nWipe the oil with tissue so that the base of uttapam turns out nice and even.
\nPlace a ladle of batter on the pan and spread it evenly to form pancakes.
\nArrange a topping of onion, capsicum, tomatoes and coriander leaves on top.
\nPress the veggies down a bit so that it embeds in the batter.
\nAdd oil to the edges of the pancake.
\nCover and roast the uttapam for 2 to 3 minutes.
\nFlip it over from one side and roast the other side as well.
\nServe it hot with any chutney of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"