Dry Fruits Uthappam

This is highly nutritious,filling with enormous health benefits. There are umpteen varieties of dry fruits in the world. Though they appear to be small in size but rich in minerals, fibre and haemoglobin.Fistful of dry fruits taking everyday provides complete and adequate nutrition for the day. It’s advised by dieticians to include dry fruits in our regular diet. So for a change I tried uthappam with my choice of dry fruits. My kids like to have raisins. So I added more of them comparatively. You can choose your own dry fruits. This uthappam is a real good feast for dry fruit lovers. Here I present delicious uthappam which is highly pleasing to our senses with it’s taste and aroma.Njoy Cooking, Serving n Savoring!

Ingredients:

Uthappam batter: 2 ladles or 1 small cup

Cashews: 1 tsp (break into small pieces)

Almonds: 6/7 no.

Raisins: 1 tbsp

Dates: 3/4 no.

Oil/ ghee: 1 tsp

Method of preparation:

1. Heat dosa pan sprinkle little melted ghee and pour one cup of batter onto the tawa and move the ladle in circular motion to get thick dosa/ uthappam.

2. Wait for few seconds and add the dry fruits mentioned above either finely cut into small pieces or whole dry fruits too.

3. Cook the uthappam on low flame covering with lid and turn to other side. Sprinkle half tsp of ghee and cook the other side too. This whole process will take approximately 10 minutes.

4. When the uthappam is done it will come up easily. Fry both sides till it turns to golden brown colour.Transfer the uthappam onto a plate and be served hot with any chutney/ tomato ketch up or can be consumed directly too.
You can even cut the uthappam carefully with knife into two halves or required shape.
Tip:

I used melted ghee for frying uthappams because,dry fruits give nice flavor when fried with ghee.