Green Gram Dosa

Ingredients:
Green Gram - 1 cup
Idili Rice - 2 cup
Green chilli - 6 nos
Ginger - 1 small piece
Salt - as required
Oil - as required

Preparation:
Soak green gram and idili rice together for about 6 hours.
Grind the soaked mixture along with green chilies and ginger.
Add water to the grinding mixture to form a batter consistency.
Finally add salt to the batter.
Leave it for 1 hour.
Using this batter make thin dosa.
Green gram dosa can be eaten with coconut chutney or tomato chutney.

Uthappam

Ingredients:
Par boiled rice - 4 cups,
Urud dal -1/2 cup,
fenugreek seeds - 2 tsp
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Preparation:
Soak the above in water for about 4 - 5 hours and grind into a fine flour. Leave it for about 8 hours to become sour. Heat a dosa tawa and spread a tsp of oil over it. When it becomes hot enough, place a laddle of flour and spread on it(it should be thicker than a normal dosa). When it is cooked on one side, turn over, add a tsp of oil all over its edge and remove when fully cooked. Serve with chutney.

Set Dosa

Ingredients:
Par boiled rice- 2 cups
raw rice- 2 cups
Black gram - 1 cup
Saffron color- 2 pinches
Cooking soda- 1/4 tsp
Salt 4 Tsp
Oil enough for frying

Preparation:
Soak rice and dhal together in water for 4 hours. Grind to a smoth paste. Add salt just before taking out from the mixer/grinder. Allow to ferment for 15 hours. The next morning, add colour and soda to the batter. Mix well and pour dosa thick. (like uthappam) and let the circles be small. Fry both sides with little oil. Serve hot with Vegetable Kurma

Rava Dosa

Ingredients:
1 cup fine soji (semolina)
1/2 cup rice flour or plain flour
1 tbsp. oil
1/8 tsp. soda bicarb
2-2 ½ cups buttermilk
1 tsp. coriander chopped fine
2 green chillies chopped fine

Preparation:
Blend all the ingredients together. Add more buttermilk if necessary. ginger grated Roll the dosa in a three-fold cylinder. oil to shallow fry Serve hot with onion and/or coconut chutneys. The batter should be relatively thin. salt to taste Keep aside for 20 - 30 minutes. Heat griddle and pour 1 large spoon of batter on it. Spread by gently rotating the griddle. Put some oil (1/2 tsp.) over dosa. Lift with a spatula as for basic dosa. Makes 10 - 12 thin dosas.

Palak Dosa

Ingredients:
Raw rice-1 cup
Boiled rice-1 cup
Grated paneer-1 cup
Green chillies-2-chopped
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander leaves- 1 tsp
Oil roasting

Method:

Soak raw rice and boiled rice together for about 2 hours. Thereafter grind the soaked rice to a fine batter. Add salt as required while grinding. Add grated paneer, green chillies, chopped coriander and mix the batter well.

Heat a thick tawa (Dosa pan) and pour a ladle full of batter on to the tawa and spread it round evenly but slightly thick in size. Pour little oil around the dosa to get a good roast.

Serve the hot dosas accompanied with coconut or onion chutney and sambhar (optional).Those who prefer slightly sour taste may ferment the dosa batter for about 5 hours and later add paneer before making dosa.

Paneer Dosa

Ingredients:
Raw rice-1 cup
Boiled rice-1 cup
Grated paneer-1 cup
Green chillies-2-chopped
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander leaves- 1 tsp
Oil roasting

Method:

Soak raw rice and boiled rice together for about 2 hours. Thereafter grind the soaked rice to a fine batter. Add salt as required while grinding. Add grated paneer, green chillies, chopped coriander and mix the batter well.

Heat a thick tawa (Dosa pan) and pour a ladle full of batter on to the tawa and spread it round evenly but slightly thick in size. Pour little oil around the dosa to get a good roast.

Serve the hot dosas accompanied with coconut or onion chutney and sambhar (optional).Those who prefer slightly sour taste may ferment the dosa batter for about 5 hours and later add paneer before making dosa.

Maida Dosa

Ingredients:
Maida - 3 Cups
Grated Coconut - 1 Cup
Green Chilly - 3-4
Ginger - 1" Piece
Sugar - 2tbsp
Salt - as per taste
fOil / Ghee
Mustard Seeds - 1 tbsp
Curry Leaves - 6-7
Rice flour - 1 1/2 cups

Preparation:
Wash the rices and dal together. Add plenty of water and methi seeds. Allow to soak for 7-8 hours or overnight. Rewash the rice by draining the water 2-3 times. Grind to a paste. Rawa -like grains should be felt in the batter. Add soda bicarb and salt and mix well. Keep aside in a warm place for 8-10 hours. Beat the curds well.

Add to the batter, add more water if required. The consistency of the batter should be thick enough to thickly coat on a spoon when dipped. Heat the iron griddle or non-stick tawa well. Pour a spoonful of batter in the centre, spreadwith the back of the spoon to a thin round.

Mix maida:rice four in the ratio 2:1. Add about 2 tsp of ava.Add water and mix. Let it be more thin than normal dosai.To this add chopped green chillies, few cumin seeds, salt to taste(about 1 tsp). Add some splattered mustard seeds. Make dosas as described previously but make the dosas more thick. The same procedure can be followed with wheat flour instead of maida.

Sweet Dosa

Ingredients:
Wheat flour 1 cup
Rice flour 1/4 cup
Maida 1/4 cup
Rava 3 tsps
Coconut 1/4 cup finely grated
Jaggery 1 cup
Cardamom 2 powdered
Ghee 1-2 t.spoons per dosai

Preparation:
Melt jaggery in 2 cups of boiling water and let it cool.Mix wheat flour, rice flour, rava, maida, cardamon, and coconut with the melted jaggery, and make a fine batter(Similar to Masala Dosa)

Spread a big spoon full of the above batter on a hot non-stick pan, and put 1 tsp of ghee around it. Let it cook on this side for a few minutes, and then turn over to the other side, andput 1 t.spoon of ghee around it. Wait till the dosai turns brown.

Plain Dosa

Ingredients:
1 cup plain rice
1 cup parboiled rice
1/4 cup white urad dal
1/2 tsp. methi (fenugreek) seeds
1 /2 tsp soda bi carbonate
1/2 cup curds
10-12 tsps. ghee or oil as preferred
water for grinding

Preparation:
Wash the rices and dal together. Add plenty of water and methi seeds. Allow to soak for 7-8 hours or overnight. Rewash the rice by draining the water 2-3 times. Grind to a paste. Rawa -like grains should be felt in the batter. Add soda bicarb and salt and mix well. Keep aside in a warm place for 8-10 hours. Beat the curds well.

Add to the batter, add more water if required. The consistency of the batter should be thick enough to thickly coat on a spoon when dipped. Heat the iron griddle or non-stick tawa well. Pour a spoonful of batter in the centre, spread with the back of the spoon to a thin round. Pour a tsp. of ghee or oil over it. Remove with spatula when crisp. Serve hot with chutney and / or sambar.

Adai

Ingredients:
Par boiled rice- 2 cups
Red grram dhal- 1/2 cup
Bengal gram dhal- 1/2 cup
Green chillies- 6
grated coconut- 3 tblsps
Coarsely powdered pepper and cumin -1 tsp.
Chopped coriander leaves and curry leaves- 2 Tblsp.
Salt to taste
oil- enough for frying

Preparation:
Soak rice and dhal together for 2-3 hours.Grind it along with coconut and chillies till it becomes a thick paste. Mix with other ingredients. Heat a heavy dosa pan and spread little batter on it using the ladle into a thick circular adai. Add a teaspoon of oil around and fry on both sides in medium flame. Serve hot with chutney or tomato sauce.

Masala Dosa

Ingredients:
Dosa shell:
1 1/2 cups rice
1/2 cup urad dal
salt to taste
Oil

Masala Filling:
2 large potatoes
1 medium onion (chopped)
1/2 teaspoon yellow split peas
1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1-2 green chili
1 tablespoon oil
salt to taste

Preparation:

Dosa shell
Separately soak rice and urad dal at least 6 hour or overnight in water.
Grind to paste.
Mix together, add salt with water to make batter.
Leave in room temperature overnight.
Mix onion and chilies to the thin batter.
Heat pan or griddle with little ghee or oil.
Spread the mix on pan in circular motion to make thin Dosa.
Cook on both the sides, if desired.

Masala Filling (Spicy Filling):
Heat oil. Add mustard seed, peas, onions and spice.
Fry for about 5 minutes on medium heat or/until onions are turned into golden brown
Add potatoes and mix and cook some more Serve
Add filling inside Dosa and roll. Serve hot with Chutney.