I make dosas often with the leftover batter. But they are not ideal to be given as school lunch, so I made these for my kids school lunch and was happy to see empty boxes licked clean.
To make Idli batter;
2 cups rice or idli rava
1 cup Urad dal
2 tbspn Oil
Salt to taste
Soak the rice and urad dal in water for 6-8 hours. If using idli
rava skip soaking the rava; soak only the dal and then grind it fine
into a smooth paste, use the water from the soaking if needed. remove
this in a bigger vessel, then grind the idli
rava or soaked rice and remove it in the same vessel as the grinded dal.
Mix the grinded dal and rava with your hand. This is because the heat
of your palms will help in fermenting the batter faster. Then cover this
vessel and keep it in a warm place to ferment and rise up.
Take a
bigger vessel and fill the batter only half way as the batter will rise
and double in size. After the rising, add the oil and the salt to the
batter and mix with a spoon.
The base batter for idli is ready. The Podi Chutney Uttapams are basically pancakes from idli battter.
You will need;
leftover or idli batter
onion chopped
cilantro chopped
1 tspn MTR Podi Chutney also called Gun powder-- Store brought.
In a pan, greased with some oil, pour the batter with a ladle. Usually Idli batter is thick, we like thick pancakes, you can thin it with some water if you like thin pancakes. Pour the batter, then sprinkle with chopped onion, cilantro and the chutney powder, cover and let cook for 2-3 minutes, flip and cover and cook for another 2-3 minutes. The Uttapas are ready to be served.
The toppings can be anything you like, onions, veggies, peas, corn, tomatoes are the regular ones, but you can feel free to mix and match according to your kids liking.
This is what my kids ate for lunch that day. Fruits/Yogurt is sneaked in as snacks as they don't eat so much at one time.
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