{"id":2580,"date":"2013-03-22T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2013-11-18T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:34:00","slug":"uttapam-first-choice-of-discerning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/uttapam-first-choice-of-discerning","title":{"rendered":"Uttapam &#8211; First Choice of the Discerning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uttapam is far lesser known than the Idli and Dosa as a breakfast option, but for the discerning it is always their first choice. What is there in an Uttapam which motivates a particular section of people to opt for it over Idli and Dosa? It is cooking vegetables and spices on top of\u00a0 the batter\u00a0 which does the trick. Idli is sans vegetables and even \u00a0the Masala version of a Dosa gets only a stuffing of precooked &#8220;aloo bhaji&#8221; spread in the center. The visual impact of \u00a0an Uttapam is almost like that of a Pizza, but they both are very different in their core ingredient and style of cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Those who enjoy Uttapam, claim that Uttapam gives you a simultaneous\u00a0 experience of\u00a0 having three different dishes: Its \u00a0crispy outer layer relates to that of Dosa; its insides are all soft like an Idli and its cooked toppings give you a feel of pizza.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2581\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2581\" style=\"width: 665px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/food\/uttapam-first-choice-of-discerning\/attachment\/uttapam\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2581\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-my-custom-thumb wp-image-2581\" alt=\"Uttapam - South Indian Breakfast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/ci-moi-images\/my-india\/Uttapam-665x445.jpg\" width=\"665\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uttapam is a favorite with the discerning.\u00a0Pizza, when it comes to toppings, onion are the\u00a0favourite\u00a0 followed with tomatoes. Many also prefer onion and tomato Uttapams and one finds these three variants on most menus of South Indian Restaurants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mini Uttapams have also become very popular, usually four to a portion, they vary in their toppings and sometimes offering of sides. Usually Uttapam is served with a side of Sambar and a helping of coconut chutney. However, it is not unusual to get tomato chutney, spicy green chilli and mint chutney and &#8220;gun powder&#8221; as sides.\u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>PS: Uttapam is also spelled as Utthapam to ensure that sound of &#8216;h&#8217; which is natural to its pronunciation in Tamil is not missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttapam is far lesser known than the Idli and Dosa as a breakfast option, but for the discerning it is always their first choice. What is there in an Uttapam which motivates a particular section of people to opt for it over Idli and Dosa? It is cooking vegetables and spices on top of\u00a0 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3513,62,3482,3503,3529],"tags":[496],"class_list":{"0":"post-2580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-festival-and-celebration-cuisines","8":"category-food","9":"category-vegetarian","10":"category-south-indian","11":"category-kids-special","12":"tag-uttapam"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}