Uttapam

A lot of people think Uttapam can be made with only that 'rice-urad' mixture meant specially for Uttapams. This is not true. You can make delicious Uttapams with Dosa batter, idly batter, vada batter or multi purpose flour too. In fact if you are short of ingredients or time you can also make them with plain semolina too!

Another point: An authentic uttapam is, of course, made with the right batter and the batter is first poured on the pan and then the chopped vegetables are added.  I however differ without any valid reason.

Ingredients: 
Regular dosa batter/ vada batter/ uttapam batter or coarse semolina soaked in yogurt for at least half hr- 250 gms
2 fine chopped onions
3 fine chopped tomatoes
fine chopped green chillies
fine chopped green coriander( this lends a special flavor however it can be safely skipped)
Whole jeera seeds
A few curry leaves chopped or whole
Salt
Oil for frying

Method:
Mix the chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, coriander, curry leaves, jeera salt and green chillies into the batter and stir well so that the batter is thick.
Heat a non stick pan. Pour out this batter and spread it to make a round shape. Sprinkle whole jeera on the wet top and let it cook. The top part will begin to harden a bit. Drop a few oil drops all round and on the small holes popping up.
When it is hardened enough to be lifted without breaking, then flip the side and cook the other side using oil.

Serve hot with coconut chutney/ green coriander chutney/ green mango chutney

Tip:
The batter tastes and cooks even better if you mix all the ingredients and keep it in the fridge for 5-7 hours.