Uttapam recipe with step by step pictures. Uttapam are South Indian Breakfast pancakes that are most often made with Dosa batter. The fermented lentil and rice batter helps them to turn fluffy. Different toppings like onions, tomatoes, carrots, green chilies, coriander leaves are used. Uttapam are crisp on the bottom with soft fluffy texture on top. The slightly roasted veggies compliment them with a nice aroma.
Uttapam are one of the most eaten South Indian foods for breakfast or snack. Traditionally they were made with slightly sour batter that is left over after making dosa on the previous days. The vegetable toppings balance the sourness of the batter and tastes good. Uttapam is served with Chutney or Sambar.
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Uttapam recipe
Uttapam recipe
Ingredients (1 cup = 240ml )
Ingredients for uttapam
- 1 cup dosa batter from this dosa recipe
- 1 medium onion chopped or sliced
- 1 small tomato (optional) small firm ripe deseeded and chopped
- 1 to 2 tbsp carrot grated
- 2 green chilies chopped
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
- salt as needed
- 2 tbsp oil or butter
How to make the recipe
Preparation for uttapam
- Wash and chop the veggies needs. Also finely chop coriander leaves.
- Grease a griddle pan or tawa. Heat it well.
- Bring the batter to consistency by adding little water if very thick. Check the salt and add a bit more as we are using the veggies.
Making onion uttapam
- Pour the batter on the hot pan. If needed spread very little.
- Lower the heat and sprinkle the toppings. Sprinkle oil towards the edges and over the onions.
- When the base is firm, flip it and cook on the other side until it is cooked well. Cook on a medium flame.
- Cook the toppings as desired. Set aside and make the next one.
- Serve onion uttapam with chutney or sambar or sprinkle podi.
NUTRITION
Preparation for uttapam recipe
1. Uttapam is mostly made with leftover batter from the previous days, so I am not giving the step by step instructions on how to make the batter. You can find the link to dosa batter recipe in the recipe card below. You can also use this masala dosa recipe.
We are using the left over or ready slightly sour batter. However you can also make with fresh fermented batter. The consistency of the batter must be same as that of dosa. You can add water to bring it to the consistency.
2. Keep the veggies ready for topping. You can use onions, deseeded firm and ripe tomatoes, grated carrots, chopped green chili and coriander leaves. Please note that using tomatoes may make the uttapam more sour. In the step by step pics i have not used tomatoes. What you see in the first picture was made sometime ago when the batter was not sour. Add very little salt to the topping and mix.
3. Grease your tawa well.
How to make uttapam
4. When it is hot enough, pour a ladle full of batter.
5. Do not spread the batter too much, uthappam has to be made thick. If the batter doesn’t spread on its own, then you may lightly spread a bit.
6. Lower the flame.
7. Sprinkle toppings as desired. Add oil around the edges and allow to cook on a low flame until the base cooks well and firms up.
8. Sprinkle little oil over the onions and flip it.
9. Cook until the onions are done. The color of the uthappam depends on the ratio of ingredients used for batter & the temperature of the batter. Usually batter straight away from fridge does not yield golden uthappam.
10. Make sure it is cooked well from inside.
Serve with chutney or Tiffin sambar.
You can also sprinkle podi and enjoy. I used Idli podi.
Sujata says
I like your recipes and presentation.
swasthi says
Thanks Sujata
gopika says
a niceeee uttapam!!!
shikha malhotra says
its amazing………..
swasthi says
Thanks Shikha
swasthi says
Hi Zeeba,
Yes you must have over pulsed them.
Zeeba says
Hi Swathi,
This may not be the right place to ask my question. Generally, what should I add in my daughter’s diet on a daily basis to boost her immunity?. I am a non vegetarian and my girl is 3 yrs old. I have just bought manna health mix powder. Will that help?. Please advise.
Thanks a lot
Zeeba
swasthi says
Hi Zeeba
No problem. For immunity i suggest badam milk regularly at bed time. Include lot of fresh fruits and green leafy veggies. You can give her 4 to 5 eggs per week, preferably organic & first born if available. It is said that they are loaded with nutrition. Try to add good amount of nuts, seeds and lentils in her diet. You must be giving her 2 meals, 1 breakfast, 2 snacks, 1 milk serving and 2 fruit servings in a day. You can include nuts and seeds for snack. I do not trust the store bought health mix and have not tried manna anytime. You can even give her ragi porridge or multigrain porridge. Take a look at the toddlers recipes on the menu above, you will find lot of healthy foods for a good growth and weight gain. If feeding meat often. try to avoid farm fed. Hope this helps
Zeeba says
Many thanks for the reply Swathi :). I do get the organic eggs here in Saudi Arabia. So I will buy those for my daughter. You reminded me of the thing I grew up eating, thanks for that. I was reading your post on badam milk powder. So for about a quarter cup of almonds, can you tell me how many strands of saffron and how much cardamom powder I should be adding?…
My daughter actually hates the colour of RAgi malt. So, I make a RAgi and oats porridge with Apple. That’s something she likes to it. Is there a recipe for multigrain porridge powder on your blog?. Search did not return any results….
Once again, thank you Swathi. 🙂
swasthi says
Hi Zeeba,
Firstly regarding the almond milk, there is one badam milk recipe for babies on the blog. I suggest you follow that and not the powder one. I feel the milk made with soaked almonds is really great for the body for building immunity. You will have to soak the almonds for 4 to 6 hours and then blend and cook with milk.
Regarding multigrain porridge, there is no post on the blog yet. But here is a quick suggestion. Wash few kinds of whole grains & lentils well and dry them. Mill or powder them Seperately. Store them seperately.Each day you try with different combinations and arrive at one which is liked by your kid. If you make one particular combo and try, usually kids don’t like due to some or the other reason. After you find one combo is good for her, next time you can use only those and make. Or you can also buy 6 to 7 varieties of organic whole grain and lentil flours. Just a spoon of this and a spoon of that. Again a trial and error should work. This method works good without any wastage of money and effort. You can try with ragi, jowar, brown rice, toor dal, urad dal,, peanuts, green gram etc. Also there is a post on 27 ladoo recipes, try a few of them which do not have refined sugar. Hope this helps
Zeeba says
Thanks a lot Swathi. I will definitely try out your suggestions on making multigrain porridge for my kid. It’s a little difficult to get the flours in this part of the world. And, I am afraid that I might break my mixer blades if I try to make the powders at home. Let me still give it a try by making in small quantities. So normally, the flours that can be considered are – RAgi, green gram, urad dal, rice, wheat, oats and dry fruits (almonds, cashews, walnuts and pistachios). Will these be good enough?.
When I made the dry fruits powder once, it turned out pasty…did I roast less or pulsed more. I wonder what went wrong…