Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, onion uttapam. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Onion Uttapam is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Onion Uttapam is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

If anyone asks me how I like my dosa, I would say that it needs to be crispy and golden brown, just like how I have it in my dosa recipe. However if you post the same question to RK, he would say that he would like it to be soft so that it can mop up the sambar or gravy. The Onion Uttapam Recipe I share today, is made with home made Idli Batter.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook onion uttapam using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Onion Uttapam:

1. Make ready 1 1/2 cup rice
2. Make ready 2 tablespoon chana (gram)dal
3. Take 2 tablespoon tuar dal
4. Prepare 5 finely chopped onions
5. Get 5 chopped green chillies
6. Get 1 teaspoon black salt
7. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
8. Take As needed oil
9. Take 3 chopped tomatoes
10. Get 2 chopped capsicums
11. Take 1 tsp black pepper powder

Onion uttapam is a popular uttapam variety where the uttapam is topped with onions. Either the uttapam can be topped only with the onions or additionally some heat and spice can be added in the onion topping like green chillies or red chilli powder. You can innovate with your regular dosas to more interesting tiffin options. Add in the all-time kitchen ingredient: onions, along with some spices to get a more tasty and a crunchier dosa - 'uttapam' as it is called in South India.

Instructions to make Onion Uttapam:

1. Take a bowl add rice,Toor dal,chana dal,wash and rinse it thoroughly and strain the water and add fresh water to the rice mix as needed, don't add to much water and keep aside for whole night.
2. Next day in the morning around 6 a.m put the rice mix in the grinder jar adding little water grind it to a paste and put the batter in the bowl add little black salt and give a mix but don't stir, it may be make the uttapam hard and keep rest thebatter for two hours.In other side chopped the above-mentioned vegetables and keep aside.
3. Now heat the pan with little oil,sprinkle it water and wipe with moist cloth and the pan is ready for making uttapam.
4. Put the ladle ful of batter in the greased pan adding little oil spread it like a uttapam shaped sprinkle it with the chopped onions fully covering the top,spread little salt and black pepper powder. Next spread other ingredients also,add one or two teaspoons of oil,cook in medium high heat, after the minute of two flip the uttapam and cook in low heat for two minutes more and cook onions set caramelized.
5. Serve with south Indian raita and chutney.
6. If you want to make a soft and fluppy uttapam follow my recipe

Just like pizzas, toppings are your choice! Aj doesn't like uttapam, he rather likes roast dosa or cone dosa. For Vj, the only thing is he does not like the ordinary uthappam with large onion, he always like uthappam with small onion/ shallots (chinna. Generally South Indians, Tamil people make onion uttapam at least once in a week with leftover Idli, dosa batter. Sendhil likes to eat onion uthappam or rava dosa in hotels and restaurants whereas my choice is always plain uthappam with varieties of side dishes.

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