Monday, March 21, 2011

Dosa made easy

Making Dosa is a very tedious job.In my mom's home the preparations starts atleast a day ahead as the rice takes longer time to soak and grind into fine paste.Now that we are having acess to so many diffirent things in the market we can make it easily.Dosa is one of my favourite breakfast on weekend's.so, whenever I cook this, it takes me back to old days and my kitchen smells  just like my mom's.




Here's is the recipe.

Urad dal(skinless and whole) -1/2cup
Rice flour -1cup
cooking soda -1/4 tsp
salt to taste.
water to consistency.

Soak the Urad dal for atleast 4hrs and grind it into fine paste by adding water to it.Add the rice flour and cooking soda to the urad dal paste by adding water until you get a perfect dosa batter consistency.Allow it to ferment overnight and cook dosa in the morning for breakfast.Add salt just before you are cooking Dosa.
If you are staying in USA or Europe where its very difficult to ferment the batter you can use your oven for fernentation process.Just before going to sleep switch on the oven to 275-300 (summer) or 350(winter) for about 2 or 3 minutes and switch off.Then keep the vessel inside the oven with keep the light on.Don;t cover the vessel tightly as the batter ferment it will ooze up.so, keep in a big vessel to avoid mess inside the oven.
Savour you hot dosa's with a coconut chutney or Sambar.
you can keep the batter in the refrigerator for about 2 or 3 days.





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