Atukulu Uthappam

Ingredients : Atukulu/poha - 1 cup rice - 2 cups Minapapappu/urad dal - 1/2 cup methi seeds - 1/2 tsp sour butter milk - 3 cups salt baking soda Chana dal onions green chilli/curry leaves

Soak all the ingredients in buttermilk overnite and grind into a batter of smooth consistency. Add salt while grinding the batter. Add a pinch of baking soda to the batter and let it ferment soak chana dal for 1 hr in water and drain water later on finely chop curry leaves, green chillies and onions

Heat the tawa and spread the batter into small utappams and sprinkle chana dal, onions, curry leaves and green chillies on each uthappam add sufficient oil and roast it until golden brown turn and roast the other side also After both sides are roasted yummy uthappam is ready. Serve with coconut chutney or any pickle.

Blackeyed peas(Alasandalu) vada

These vadas can be deep fried or shallow fried. I am giving the shallow fried version here(low fat :-). Ingredients ======== Black eyed peas(Bobbarlu) - 2 cups green chillies - 4 ginger - small piece curry leaves Small onion -1 Procedure ======== Soak the black eyed peas for 6-8 hrs or overnight Chop onions into small peices Grind the peas adding ginger, chillies, salt into a smooth batter Mix onions and curry leaves to the batter Pressure cook the batter for a while until you get 2 whistles(This step can be skipped if deep frying) Make vadas with batter and shallow fry them