Utapa Recipe

Uttapa is a South Indian breakfast dish which also goes well as a snack. Easy to make and you can make your own variations to the basic utapa recipe by adding grated veggies of your choice like carrots.

Utapa recipe

Ingredients:
1 cup rice
½ cup urad
½ teaspoon methi seeds
1 onion chopped fine
1 tomato chopped fine
A pinch of salt
A pinch of turmeric powder
Some corriander leaves chopped fine
A little oil for frying.

Method:

• Wash and soak the rice, urad and methi seeds for about 5 hours.
• Drain and grind to a paste using minimum quantity of water.
• Keep overnight for fermentation.
• Add the salt, turmeric powder and veggies to the batter; add a little water if too thick.

Utapa batter with veggies

• Put a little oil on the skillet and spoon out some batter onto it.
• Cover and cook for some time. 
• Flip over and let cook on the other side.
• Serve plain or with green chutney of white chutney as you prefer.

How to make utapa