I wanted to share my favourite uttappa toppings ever since I'd shared making of uttappas on my Instagram story. These are not your usual toppings and I want you to try. This is my uncle's special uttappa, who is an absolute culinarian, no doubt. He loves experimenting with different ingredients (just like me) and always ends up making yummy dishes.


When I used to visit Pune, he used to make them for us cousins and serve hot on our plates. We used to eat so much! Countless number of uttappas. I especially remember watching IPL in one of the bedrooms, while eating uttappas. It's my favourite memory associated with them. We also started making such kind back here in Mumbai, and this kind is one of my favourite dishes!

All right, enough of nostalgia; let's jump into the ingredients needed!

• Onions - Finely chopped
• Green Chilies - Finely chopped
• Coriander Leaves
• Butter (lots of it!)
• Onion Garlic Masala (the secret ingredient!)
• Tomato Ketchup (optional and for ketchup-lovers like my cousin!)

1. After pouring the uttappa mixture (flour + water + salt) on pan, quickly sprinkle onions, coriander leaves, green chilies, and onion garlic masala on it.
2. Add butter on the uttappa, as well as towards the sides of it (so that it doesn't stick on the pan).
3. Serve on a plate.
4. If you want a different twist to it, spread tomato ketchup on uttappa, along with loads of butter. Enjoy the orgasmic feeling after taking first bite! (This step is my cousin's favourite way of eating it.)

This version of uttappa is a little different from the traditional uttappa. You can call it westernized or modernized. Whatever you wanna call it, I request you to try it out once!

A short clip of uttappa on my stove:

• Carrot - 1
• Cucumber - 1
• Tomato - 3
• Lemon - 1/2
• Coriander Leaves
• Curry Leaves
• Beet - 1
• Water (optional)

• Tomatoes - 3 large
• Garlic - 11-12 flakes or 2 tbsp paste
• Sesame Seeds (Til) - 2.5 tbsp
• Peanuts - Crushed 2.5 tbsp
• Oil - 5.5 tbsp
• Salt
• Red Chili Powder
• Green Chilies - 5
• Jaggery - slightly larger than a dice
  
  
  
  PREPARATIONS
   1. Chop three large tomatoes in little pieces.
  2. Take eleven to twelve garlic flakes and make a paste of them.
  3. Crush peanuts.
  4. Make a paste of green chilies.
  
  STEPS
  
   
  1. In a preferably iron wok, add oil.
  2. Once it's heated, add in sesame seeds and fry.
  3. Add garlic and green chili paste. Let it fry nicely.
  
  
  
   
  4. Add tomatoes. Wait until they're mushy.
  
  
  
  
   5. Add salt and jaggery.
  6. Add red chili powder to bring redness. (If green chilies aren't sufficient for the spiciness, add more red chili powder. Remember, it's chutney; it has to be salty, tangy, and spicy.)
  7. Wait for all the ingredients to mix together. Add crushed peanuts to reduce the watery consistency.
  
  
  
  
   8. Give a stir. Enjoy hot with bhakri and pithla!
  

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With Mami

 

The bride

With the sibling of the groom

My brother

My dad

My cousin and his mom

My cousin, dad, and groom's father

 The reception was on the same day, after the wedding.


 

My dad, mom, and brother