Yummy in tummy.....

Uttapam is a very popular South Indian crispy dish.

Ingredients:
Batter (1:3 ratio of urad dal and rice)
1 Tomato

1Carrot(shredded)
1 small Onion
1 bunch of fresh Coriander leaves
Little broken Cashewnut or Putna or both
1 or 2 Green Chillies

Method:
1)Put them all in a small chopper and cut them very fine
2)In a cup of batter, mix all of it and add little salt.
3)Put your non-stick pan or tawa on burner and heat it up to medium heat. Use a serving spoon to spread the batter thick, spread a tsp of oil on sides and cook well.When one side turns golden brown,flip it and cook on other side as well.
4)Serve with sambar and coconut chutney
5)I served with ketchup ,cream cheese and sour cream.

1 1/2 cups rice

1/2 cup urad dal

salt to taste

Oil

2 large potatoes

1 medium onion (chopped)

1/2 teaspoon yellow split peas

1/2 teaspoon mustard seed

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1-2 green chili1 tablespoon

oil

salt to taste
Preparation:

Dosa shell
*Separately soak rice and urad dal at least 6 hour or overnight in water.
*Grind to paste.
*Mix together, add salt with water to make batter.
*Leave in room temperature overnight.
*Mix onion and chilies to the thin batter.(OPTIONAL)
*Heat pan or griddle with little ghee or oil.
*Spread the mix on pan in circular motion to make thin Dosa.
*Cook on both the sides, if desired.

Masala Filling (Spicy Filling):
*Heat oil. Add mustard seed, peas, onions and spice.
*Fry for about 5 minutes on medium heat or/until onions are turned into golden brown
*Add potatoes and mix and cook some more Serve
*Add filling inside Dosa and roll. Serve hot with Chutney and sambhar.

VADA
Ingredients:
1/2 cup Urad Daal

1/2 cup Moong Daal

1 Onion finely chopped

1 tsp Ginger

1-2 Green Chilies finely chopped

Salt to taste

1/4 tsp Baking Soda
How to make vada sambhar :
*Pick, wash and soak daals for overnight.
*Grind them coarsely in a blender.
*Now add onions,ginger, green chilies salt and baking powder and mix well and set aside for 5 minutes.
*Heat oil in a pan or kadhai and deep fry a spoonful of batter till golden

SAMBHAR----
Ingredients:

2 Cup Tuvar Dal

3 Red chilles

3 Green Chilles

1/4 tsp. Methi

1 tsp. Sambhar powder

Curry leaves a few

Hing a small pinch

Salt 1 tsp. Salt (or to taste)

Cooking Oil 2 tsp

Mustard1/2 tsp

Turmeric 1/4 tsp.

Tamarind paste2 tsp.

Vgetables( Green Pepper,Eggplant,Okra,Carrots) Washed and diced

Method:
*Cook Thuvar dhall and turmeric with extra water and separate the two, and keep them aside.
*Cook the vegetables in thuvar dhall water, and add turmeric and salt to this.
*After this is cooked, add tamarind paste.
*Heat some oil in a pan, splutter mustard, then add methi, red chillies, green chillies, curry leaves, hing, turmeric, and sambhar powder and keep frying for a few minutes.
*Add this to the boiling vegetables.
*Add the thuvar dhall and let it cook for a few more minutes.

Ingredients:

1 cup grated Coconut

2-3 Green Chillies ( as per need )

4 pieces of Garlic

2 tsp Tamarind

1spn--chana dal

1spn--peanuts

1 cup--yogurt

Method:
*Fry chana dal+peanuts on tava without oil.

*In a mixer add grated coconut +fried chana dal n peanuts+ green chillies+ garlic+yogurt---grind all the ingredients together by adding little water.

*Also add the tamarind.

* In a pan add oil.when hot add curry leaves+rai+ and add to the mixture.
*Put salt to taste and the chutney is ready.

*serve vada with sambhar and chutney.