. Now I can eat 2 such idlies. It is something similar to the thatte idli, except this one is not flat, but shallow and just a bigger variation of our regular idli. I wish I had that idli plate.How many variations we can make with this single idli dosa batter. Good old regular idli, podi idli, cocktail idli, thalippu idli, kaima idli, chutney idli, idli upma… Plain dosa, masala dosas, beetroot dosa, onion uttapam, plain uttapam made in kadai as you see in this post, kuzhipaniyaram and the list goes on with your creativity.
This post made after I got tempted by a photo that I saw in zomato under a restaurant review. The first thing I got tempted was the plain uttapam. Next is keerai vadai. Otherwise I changed the menu according to my convenience. I made this spread this friday, with vadai payasam special for aadi friday.
This post is just an idea for making an elaborate brunch, if you want to make it for some special occasion. Otherwise, you can take this as an idea and reduce the items according to your convenience. If you want to make this exact menu, note down the things that you can prepare and keep it ready in before hand to reduce your work.
This is just an idea on how I prepared this menu. For detailed individual recipes, please check the links below.
- Idli recipe
- Idli podi recipe
- Paniyaram recipe
- Tiffin sambar recipe
- Coconut chutney recipe
- Red chutney recipe
- Arisi paruppu payasam recipe
- Keerai vadai recipe
Check outkesari, paal kesari, fruit kesari, semiya kesari, aval kesari
Check out medhu vadai, masala vadai
Here’s how I prepared this brunch menu:
I made savory paniyaram with the idli dosa batter simply with mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and a dash of asafoetida.
Sweet paniyaram is karuppatti paniyaram, which I will post coming Wednesday.
I made my plain uttapams in my new iron kadai, which turned out super crispy, golden and tasty!
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- Idli dosa batter can be prepared a day or two days ahead and kept in fridge. With this batter, we can make idli, plain uttapam and kuzhi paniyaram savory with the same batter. I had idli dosa batter with me.
- Same with sweet paniyaram batter, you can prepare a day ahead and keep refrigerated. I prepared the paniyaram batter the before day itself.
- I prepared keerai vadai by soaking urad dal just for an hour and grinding it coarsely without water. So soak it before you start all the other process for this brunch.
- Roast and pressure cook rice, dal for payasam in one container of the pressure cooker and dal for sambar in another container. (I keep tamarind also inside a small bowl in middle of dal for easy extraction of tamarind juice).
- Clean keerai and chop it, scrap coconut (I had it frozen), cut onion for red chutney, sambar, tomato and vegetables for sambar. Keep the other ingredients like coriander leaves, green chilli ready.
- Grind coconut, extract little milk and prepare coconut and red chutneys. Keep aside.
- Extract tamarind juice. Powder jaggery, cardamom for payasam and finish payasam.
- Now to stove work. In ghee, roast some cashews for payasam and garnish it.
- Temper chutneys and then sambar. Finish making sambar.
- Prepare keerai vadai.
- Lastly make idli, kuzhi paniyarams and plain uttapam hot. Just one each and couple of paniyarams will do as it will be filling.
- Coat the idli with sesame oil and idli podi mix and serve it. Arrange idli, keerai vadai, paniyarams, payasam and the side dishes. Finally keep hot uttapams and serve.
I made savory paniyaram with the idli dosa batter simply with mustard, urad dal, curry leaves and a dash of asafoetida.
Sweet paniyaram is karuppatti paniyaram, which I will post coming Wednesday.
I made my plain uttapams in my new iron kadai, which turned out super crispy, golden and tasty!
