Are you get bored eating the same paratha and pakoda during fasting? Try this super yummy and healthy Samak Rice Chilla or Uttapam, an instant savoury dish to relish during fasting. Made with samak rice, sabudana, vegges, and minimum addition of spices this is a filling meal for your Navratri fasting.

What is Samak Rice?

Samak ke chawal or sama or samo or Barnyand millet is a non-grain cereal, easily available in Indian stores. It has an impressive nutritional profile. Sama rice contains complex carbs, rich in fibre and is easily digestible. You can easily include this in your diet on a daily basis.  It absorbs a good quantity of water so, it is quite filling and therefore used mostly in making fasting meals. 

Other Vrat Special Recipes You Would Like to Try

• Coconut Paneer Burfi
• Sabudana Kheer
• Singhara Atta Chilla
• Samak Rice Kheer

About SamaK Rice Chilla (Uttapam)

Samak rice chilla is a saoury pancake soft textured meal recipe with the goodness of samak rice, sabudana, lauki, and spinach. Your fasting will surely become a feast with a delicacy like this falahari vrat wala vegetable Uttapam! 

Made with very little oil, this is a healthy and filling meal for any vrat or fast. In India, during fasting time people just consume fruits and non-grainy cereals like sago, foxtail millet, chestnut flour, rajgira flour, etc.

We can make a variety of dishes using sama rice and its combination with other millets. Try out my samak rice pulao and samak rice kheer.

This samak rice and sabudana chilla for fast is a tasty treat that makes your fasting enjoyable and elevates the joy of fasting. Not only for vrat you can enjoy it at breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is also perfect for a tiffin menu.

It is an instant uthapam recipe and no fermentation is required.

Why Should You Try This Recipe

• Easy and quick to prepare
• Needs only simple handy ingredients
• A filling dish for fasting
• Naturally gluten-free 
• A hearty and healthy meal!

This sama ke chawal ka uttapam is an instant rice uttapam recipe which does not require any fermentation. It is quite an easy and filling recipe for fasting days that keep you full for a longer time. This is an Indian style barnyard millet recipe which you can enjoy not only during fast but as a regular meal too. If you are on a weight loss journey it is also a perfect wholesome meal to lose weight.

To make this delicious dish you need to soak samak ke chawal and sabudana beforehand. This amazing recipe is an instant hit whether prepared as a vrat meal or a regular meal. 

I have used lauki and spinach to make this pancake but you can use other vegetables of your choice which are allowed during fasting for a different taste. Sabudana Uttapam makes a perfect vrat recipe as it is light on the stomach and prepares quickly without much effort. 

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Samak Rice Uttapam for Fast – Ingredients

These ingredients needed to make

Oil — Used for shallow frying Uttapams.

Lauki — Shredded lauki or bottle gourd is used.

Spinach and carrots– finely chopped spinach and carrots are added to give a colourful look to our uttapam.

Coriander leaves— fresh coriander leaves impart a nice aroma to Uttapams making them more tempting.

Green Chilies — add to give the Uttapams a little spicy taste. Sawa Chawal and Sabudana Vrat Uttapam are easily available in your pantry. 

Sawa rice —This is the star ingredient of our savoury Sama and Sabudana rice pancakes or uttapam. 

Sabudana pearls — The key ingredients of this recipe, Sago/ Tapioca pearls provide binding and soft texture to our delicious Vrat Uttapams.

Yoghurt — use sour curd to make them fluffy.

Vrat salt/ rock salt — Sendha Namak or rock salt is used for cooking during fasting as regular salt is restricted.

How to Make Sama Rice Uttapam(Chilla)-Step by Step Preparation

1.First wash sama rice and sabudana and soak them separately for 3-4 hours.

2. After soaking strain extra water and transfer them to a grinder jar,add curd and grind in to make a medium thick paste.

3. Now add chopped spinach, grated lauki, chopped carrot, green chilli, jeera, sendha namak, coriander leaves. Mix well. Add paneer pieces and mix well again.

4. At last add eno and mix again well.

5. Heat an iron griddle on medium flame. Once heat lower the flame to low setting. Grease it with few drops of ghee. Sprinkle some sesame seeds.

6. Pour a big ladle ful of batter. Sprinkle a few drops of oil around it.

7. Cover and cook it for 2-3 minutes on a low flame. Then flip to other side and cook for another 2-3 minutes or till done.

8. Delicious samak ke chawal ka chilla is ready to serve.

9. Enjoy this delicious samak rice chilla or uttapam with falahari coconut chutney and curd.

Serving Suggestions

Serve this instant samak rice chilla with coconut chutney and curd on side at Lunch or Dinner time. You can also prepare it on non fasting day too for a change.

Tips and Tricks

1. Make a thick paste of samak rice and sabudana, don’t add any water while grinding.
2. Cook uttapam on low flame so that it can cooked well from inside too.
3. I have used lauki and spinach here but you can add other vegetables which you can eat during fasting.
4. They taste best when served warm with coconut chutney or coriander chutney and curd on the side. If reheating required microwave it for 20- 30 seconds or cook on tawa with lowest setting of flame.
5. This much of quantity serves 2. Increase or decrease the quantity of recipe according to your requirement.

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