Bread Uthappam

About this Recipe...

Uthappam is a very popular and tasty South Indian dish. Traditionally it is made with rice and urad dal batter, which is a long process but this instant bread Uthappam is easy to make and not required much time.
If you have leftover bread lying in your pantry and you are thinking what to do with those bread slices then don't worry, make this healthy recipe of bread Uthappam with lots of veggies and very few drops of oil.
You can use any kind of bread for this preparation, here I have used whole wheat bread. You can use white bread also. Make this bread uthappam for your breakfast, branch or evening snack and serve it with chutney, pickle or tomato ketch up. It tastes extremely good.

Ingredients

• 3 Slices of bread
• 1/4 Cup Plain yogurt
• 4 Tbsp Semolina
• 3 Tbsp All purpose flour
• Salt to taste
• 1/4 Cup Chopped Onion
• 1/4 Cup Chopped bell pepper
• 1/8 Cup Chopped tomato
• 3 Green chilles finely chopped
• 2 Tbsp Cilantro finely chopped
• 2 Tbsp Oil for shallow frying

Directions

1. Remove the crust from the bread slices and cut it into small pieces.
2. Now transfer the bread pieces to a blender and add semolina, all purpose flour, yoghurt and water.
3. Blend it to a thick and smooth batter.
4. Now pour the batter in a mixing bowl and add salt to taste, chopped onion, bell pepper, tomato, green chili and cilantro.
5. Mix everything well. The consistency of the batter should not be too thick or too runny. It should be little thick and pouring consistency.
6. Now heat a griddle and grease it with little oil.
7. Pour 2 tbsp of batter and the size of Uthappam should be like pancakes.
8. Now pour little oil around the Uthappam and cook it for 2 minutes.
9. Turn the Uthappam and cook the other side. It should be golden brown color from both the sides.
   
10. Remove the bread uthappam from the griddle and serve it hot with your favorite chutney or ketch up.