South Indian Dosa - Breakfast Recipes

Hello Foodies, today I want to introduce you to one of the famous and popular South Indian Breakfast recipes "Dosa". Dosa is the most popular South Indian breakfast made with fermented rice and lentils batter. With just a handful of ingredients, we can make this simple breakfast "Dosa" batter. Let us learn how to make a Dosa at home with step by step guide.

How to make a Dosa :

Step 1:Soaking rice and lentils

Step 2:Making dosa batter in a blender or mixer-grinder

Step 3:Fermenting dosa batter

Step 4:Making dosa

Let us know the ingredients required to make a Dosa batter.

Ingredients:

3 cup idli rice, para-boiled rice, or normal rice

1 cup black gram

1 cup thin beaten rice

3 tablespoons of Bengal gram 

1 tablespoon Fenugreek Seeds

Preparation :

1.  Firstly, in a large bowl soak 3 cups idli rice or normal rice or para-boiled rice and 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds for 5 hours.

2.     Also, soak 1 cup Black Gram and 3 tablespoons of Bengal gram lentils for 3 hours.

3. Drain off the Black &Bengal gram and transfer to the grinder. You can use mixi if you are comfortable, but I do prefer Wet grinder for Fluffiness of batter.

4. Grind it to a smooth paste adding water as required.

5. After grinding for 40 minutes, the batter will turn soft and fluffy.

6. Scoop out Black and Bengal gram batter and keep aside.

7. In the same grinder add soaked rice and 1 cup beaten rice.

8. Also, add water as required and grind the batter.

9. Grind it to a slightly coarse batter. if you grind to a very smooth paste, then the dosa will be very soft and not crisp. Grind it 

10. Transfer the batter to the same vessel of Black and Bengal gram batter.

11. Mix well making sure everything is well combined

12. Cover and allow to ferment for 8 hours in a warm place.

13. After 8 hours, the batter would have doubled indicating its well fermented.

14. Now mix the batter gently and use the batter to prepare the dosa.

15. Finally, the dosa batter can be stored in the refrigerator for up to a week and used to make weeks breakfast.

Tips to follow :

• For a crispy dosa adding 2 to 3 tablespoons chana dal (husked Bengal gram) works wonderfully. 
• Adding flattened rice adds a touch of softness to the dosa. So this dosa recipe makes for crisp as well as soft textured dosa.
• Adding fenugreek seeds will help in fermentation.

This simple Dosa tastes good with white chutney and sambhar or peanut chutney and sambhar combination. Try it once and let me know your feedback and suggestions.