Uthappam chat style!

Uthappam is a typical South Indian dish. Traditionally, made of fermented white rice and urud dal ( split black gram) paste. The taste of uthappam would be that of a dosa but with crunchy steamed veggies over it.

Dont know about others, but for me, uthappa is always a way to utilize the left over dosa bacter. After preparing dosa for a day it so happens the bacter to be left for the next day but, with variety lovers as my family, dosa the next day would be a total no-no.

Besides this, i faced another problem that my family doesn't like uthappam much unlike me. SO, i thought about a twist to mix what they love to something they don't like. And i mixed chat flavour(Indian sweet sour street food) to uthappam and THERE! they loved it!

Ingredients:

Fermented raw rice and urud dal( split black gram) bacter: 2 cups

Onion: 1, chopped.

coconut: 1/2 bowl.

coriander leaves: a handful, chopped.

Jeera (cumin seeds): 1/2 t-spoon

Mustard seeds: 1/4rth t-spoon

chat masala: 1 t-spoon

salt: to taste

Oil: a little

Preparation:

Heat oil and splutter mustard and jeera. Add onion and a bit of salt for onion to cook fast. Then add coconut, chopped coriander leaves and sauté for a minute add salt and chat masala and the topping is ready.

In a nonstick pan pour a deep spoon full of bacter( as making pancakes) and spread the bacter over the pan by rotating the pan and not with the help of a spoon. Then immediately spread a spoon full of topping over this cooking pancake and put the lid over for it to cook. when done make sure to over turn it so that the topping be a part of the uthappam. Serve!

Note: you can add tomatoes, capsicum, corn(chopped), and other veggies and flavours of your choice. But i made sure of adding coconut to maintain the "South indian Touch. The filling is totally upto your taste.