VARITIES OF DOSAS

DOSAS

a food plaza in Hyderabad has recently introduced 104 different varieties of Dosa. They have already patented 27 of them.

A brilliant blend of flavours, colours, seasoning, nutritional balance, fragrance, taste, and visual appeal, these special Dosas boast of an innovative variety of fillings.

 

CONTENTS

 

1)Masala dosa 

Plain dosa

PEAS masala dosa

2)Greengram dosa(pesarattu)

Pesarattu with Upma

Onion pesarattu (special)

Pesarattu masala dosa

B)Mungdal&uraddal dosa

3)Rawa dosa

Rawa masala dosa

Mysore dosa

4)Mysoremasala dosa

5)Onion dosa

Onion masala dosa

6)Instant dosa

7)Vegetable dosa

8)Poha dosa

9)Maize dosa

10)Utappam

11)Paper dosa

Paper masala dosa

12)Dibbarotte(thick dosa)

13)Besan dosa

b)ALLPURPOSE DOSA

14)Adai(mixed lentils)

15)Corn dosa

16)atta dosa(whole wheat flour)

17)Spinach dosa

18)Coconut dosa

19)Blackgram&semolina dosa

Paper dosa_2

20)Tomato dosa

21)Soya dosa

22)Mixed lentils dosa

Mysore Masala Dosa  For Dosa batter: 1/2 cup Urad dal 1/2 cup Tuvar (arhar) dal 1/2 cup Chana dal 4 cups Rice Salt to taste For the Masala: 3 cups boiled and slightly mashed Potatoes 2 cups chopped Onions 1/2 cup Boiled Peas 3-4 finely chopped Green Chillies 1/4 inch piece of Ginger (finely minced) 2 cloves of Garlic (crushed finely) 3 tbsp. Olive Oil 1 tsp. Mustard seeds 1 pinch Asafoetida 4-5 Curry Leaves Salt to taste 1 tsp. Turmeric powder 1 tsp. Cumin powder Chopped Coriander 1/2 cup grated fresh Coconut For the Chutney: 2 cups fresh grated Coconut 3/4 cup chopped Green Chillies 1 cup roasted Bengal Gram (daalia) 8-10 Curry Leaves Lemon Juice Salt to taste Method: For the Dosa Mix: Soak the rice for 8-10 hrs. Combine & soak the dal for about 2 hrs. Grind the dal in a blender adding enough water to make a smooth mixture. Follow the same for the rice. Mix in the salt and set aside the mixture in a warm place. Allow to rise for 16-18 hrs. For the Masala: Heat the oil and add mustard seeds. Allow the mustard seeds to pop and add the curry leaves and asafoetida. Add the onions and fry until clear. Stir in the ginger, garlic and green chillies. Add the potatoes, peas and the rest of the ingredients and stir well. For the Chutney: Grind the coconut, chillies, curry leaves and daalia in a blender. Add enough water to form a smooth consistency. Mix in the lemon juice and salt. Making the Dosa: Heat a griddle/non stick pan. Use a ladle to pour the mixture onto the pan and spread out to form a thin round pancake. Cook for two minutes. Spread butter evenly over the layer. Flip over and repeat the same. Spread a layer of the chutney. Top with the masala and fold into an envelope. Remove from pan and serve hot with coconut chutney and sambhAR.(Taken from a resturant book recipes)   SPRING DOSA   Cabbage 1/4kg BellPepper 1 Tomatoes 3 small Green chilies 3 Grated coconut 1/2cup Red chili powder 2tsp salt oil Butter. Method:- Chop green chillies finely. Chop cabbage, bell pepper, Make tomatoes into pulp. Heat oil in a pot and add cabbage, and bell pepper. stircook for 5 minutes. Mix tomato pulp, green chilies, grated coconut, red chili powder and salt. Mix well and stir for 2 minutes and remove. Make plain dosa and spread the vegetable in the center and roll the dosa and serve warm. Masala Dosa   Raw boiled  rice         11/2cup Husked blackgram         1/2cup cooked rice              1 1/2tbsp pressed rice (poha)      tbsp Fenugreek seeds           1/2tsp salt Method:  Wash the  dal, raw rice and methi seeds. Soak them in  water along with poha and cooked rice for at least an hour.Grind to a smooth paste. Cover and keep aside for at least five hours. Add salt to taste and mix well. This batter can be used as basic batter for preparing masala dosa, sada dosa, onion uttappam, Mysore masala dosa, spring dosa, etc. The batter is enough to make about four to six dosas. Use a stainless steel cup to pour the dosa batter onto the tawa. Dosa Filling onions1/4kg green chillies 6 choppedcoriander leaves  potatoes 3-4 ghee  4 1/2 tbsp mustard seeds 1/2tsp curry leaves Turmeric powder salt to taste grated coconut juice of          1 lemon 1 tspmustard seeds Method: For masala curry:  Chop the onions, green chillies and coriander leaves fine. Boil, peel and mash the potatoes. Heat ghee and season with mustard seeds. When they splutter, add curry leaves and chopped green chillies. Add the chopped onions and fry till golden brown. Add the mashed potatoes, turmeric powder and salt. Stir well. Remove from heat and sprinkle lime juice over. Mix well. For masala dosa: Heat a dosa pan, Grease it with a little ghee. Pour  dosa batter over dosa pan in a circular shape. Put one tbsp. ghee over the dosa. Place prepared masala curry over the dosa and spread well. Cook till done. Gently fold the dosa over into a cylindrical shape. Serve with sambhar and chutney. 2.Moongdal dosa(pesarattu):-   Need wholegreen moong dal-1cup, ginger-2, greenchilli-4, salt, garlic- 3flakes, 1½ cup-water (just add if necessary) Soak dal overnight. THIS SHOULD BE USED IMMEDIETLY AFTER GRINDING;IT CAN NOT STAY MORE THAN ! DAY (THE REMAINING BATTER SHOULD BE SPARED IN THE FRIDGE). Grind dal nicely along with above ingredients. The batter should be thicker than normal dosa. Heat the nonstick pan take 1 laddle batter & spread immedietly to a thin dosa ( as much thin as you can). Do not pour oil first, use oil after spreading dosa it needs more oil than normal dosas. Serve hot with coconut chutney. Roast only one side. After spreading dosa on TAWA (PAN) place 2 tbsp of finely chopped onions (red will be very tasty), chopped green chillies, ginger bits & coriander bits. It is highly nutritious&fiber rich food,even you can use it as a side dish with plain warm rice. DOSA-2 Rice flour 11/2cups Allpurpose flour 11/2cups plain yoghurt 2tbsp ghee, melted 1tbsp Method   Mix the rice flour with the  flour. Add  yoghurt, ghee and enough water to make a thick batter. Cover and keep aside for 8 hours / overnight, at room temperature to get fermentation. Make dosas as normal way.     filled dosa 30 g ghee 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds 1 medium onion, finely chopped 250 g potatoes, boiled, cooled, peeled and diced 1/4 teaspoon turmeric 1/4 teaspoon chilli powder Method Heat the ghee and fry the mustard seeds for 1 minute. Add the onion and saute until tender. Add potatoes, turmeric and chilli, saute for 2 minutes or until dry. Put a spoonful of this mixture in each dosa, roll up like a pancake and serve. Coconut Chutney  Desiccated coconut/Fresh grated coconut  1cup fresh ginger  fresh chillies        5 chopped             crushed garlicfresh lemon juice Method Blend everything(except lemon) to a thick paste,add lemon juice finally..   MOONGDAL&URADDAL DOSA(GREENGRAM&BLACKGRAM) Blackgram(Urad Dhal)                                  1 Cup Moong dhal (greengram)                                1 ¼ Cup  Salt  Oil Soak  both lentils separately. Grind them together to a smooth batter. Add about 2tsp salt. No need of fermentation. These can be made with fresh batter. Make thick dosas and pour oil around(1tsp),flip it and roast it to golden. Serve with coconut chutney!   Suggestion:-Chop greenchillies,onion(red will be fine),fresh coriander,ginger into tiny bits. Saute in 1tsp oil for 1 minute. Sprinkle & press lightly  over dosa when you spread the batter.     3.SEMOLINA(Rawa) dosa:- It is a combination of 1cup-semolina , 2 cups rice flour, 1cup-Plain flour, salt. Cuminseeds Chop green chillies, ginger, 1-onion, 6cashewnuts & coconut bits, coriander leaves, cumminseeds. ! cup-sour curd (yoghurt) , 2cups-water (can be added little more if needed). Mix all of them to a fine batter & whip briskly. Allow to stay for atleast 1 hour. Heat pan & just sweep with little oil using with a piece of cloth or kitchen paper. Now spread dosa very very thin, pour oil around it. sprinkle with onion if you need more. Roast till it gets crispy brown on ONLY one side & serve hot. If you need with more quantity with rawa do like this..   Semolina         2 cups Rice flour    1½cups salt to taste Plain flour     1cup Besan(gram flour)    2tsp Cumin seeds ginger crush Fresh coriander  Yoghurt              2 cups water                  1½ cups Oil/ghee/butter   Method:-Mix everything to a dosa consistancy.Keep it overnight or 3-4 hours. Whip the batter to get fluffy.It should be little thin batter. Add one pinch baking soda. Make dosa as much as thin you can.(spread from upside,not like paper dosa).Spread 2tsp ghee around it. Dosa should get holes.Spread if you desire green chilli chopping &onion,fresh chopped coriander. Roast only one side with lid,fold it &serve with coconut chutney or sambar!!  4.Mysore masala dosa:- Same batter as normal dosa, but adding extra with little channa dal&1tbsp semolina.

Serve hot with coconut chutney.

6.Instant dosa:-

1cup-plain flour 

2½cups-riceflour,

1tsp, besan (optional),

salt to taste,

chopped green chilli,

1smallonion (chopped).

curry leaves- ½ cup, 1cup-sour curd (yoghurt)

Method:-

Mix everything above to a fine batter. Allow to stay for few minutes.

Brush the hot pan & pour 1 laddle of batter, spread it little thicker than masala dosa, pour oil around

And roast it both sides & serve with any pickle.

7.Vegetable dosa.:-

 It is a mixture of all vegetables topping over dosa (plain-urad dal). Cabbage (chopped), onion, greenchilli, ginger, greted carrot, coriander, boiled & chopped potato & little salt, curry masala.

8.Poha dosa(atukula dosa):

Called as "poha",flatten rice","riceflakes" etc..

It is a mixture of riceflakes & little wheat flour (vetemjol).

Soak 1cup. rice flakes for 1 hour, grind along with wheat flour (1tbsp), salt to a fine batter.

Make dosas immedietely little thicker than normal dosa and roast it both sides.

If you need spicy add chilli & onion chopped bits.

No need of any chutney.

9.Maize dosa:-

Jonnapindi(javar ki atta):1 cup,

½cup-wheat flour,

1tbsp - rice flour,

salt

Make a batter with above 3 flours. Whip as much as you can. Make them litter thicker than masala dosa.

Add chillies & onion, cummin for taste. Roast them both sides adding with oil around dosa.

It is a batter of normaldosa (1:3 blackgram (no peel-uraddal) and rice) & should be tasted sour (if you grind the batter today, for utappamday-after tomorrow will be good to make).

Add chopped onion, chopped green chilli, ginger bits & coriander leaves, separately. -NOT DIRECTLY TO THE BATTER.  Pour dosa batter first, then spread all chopped things over it, press with the laddle & pour oil around dosa. After 2 minutes, turn it softly to the other side & roast it for 1 more minute & serve with fresh coconut chutney.

11-paper dosa;-1

It is a mixture of urad dal (blackgram without peel) 1cup, 3cups of rice.

Soak them separately for 5 hours & grind them separately. Soak 1 tsp methi seeds (fenurgeek) in urad dal.

Finally mix together & grind 3 to 4 rounds to a smooth batter.

Add salt & keep the lid let it ferment for 10 12 hours.

Make dosa very thin with starting from the centre (as thin as possible).

We get very crispy. Serve with sambhar or coconut chutney.

  ALLPURPOSE flour DOSA

Grated Coconut                          1 Cup
Green Chillies                                 5                                

Ginger                                 small bit
                                                   
Salt 

Oil / Ghee
Mustard Seeds                           1 tsp
Curry Leaves                            Twig  
Maida                                   21/2 Cups

Method:-

Grind to a coarse mixture coconut, green chillies, Ginger, Salt, and  required water.

Add allpurpose flour to this mixture.

Add needed water to make dosa batter without any granules.

Season it with oil, Mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Make dosa golden crispy using oil/ghee on both sides.

  12.Dibbarotte:- (Thick dosa) 

It is a combination of  idli rawa and  urad dal  (blackgram).

Take 1 cup of uraddal (white),

2cups of idli rawa or if you can not get that, mix  ground rice (you can get in indien stores) & salt.

Grind soaked urad dal ( atleast for 3 hours) & add rice rawa and grind two more rounds.

Mix salt and cummin.  Let it stay for 3 to 4 hours under the lid. Pour 1 tbsp oil &Then pour dibbarotta very thick dosa (looks like idli).

Allow it to cook & roast on the pan on a low flame.

Turn to the other side after done. Let it get golden crispy brown.

Eat immedietly with mango pickle.

13.Besan dosa:-

It is a combination of gramflour &  a little rice flour, salt & cummin seeds. Make it immedietly. You can get very thin dosas like omlett. If you want with veg dosa(little fantasy).

  14.Adai(dosai with 4 lentils):-

It is a combination of 4  lentils and rice.

1 cup-urad dal,

1cup-channadal,

½ cup moongdal (pesarapappu),

1 tbsp - tour dal (kandipappu).

2 tsp rice (corn)

salt,

green chilli - 3, 

ginger-2, curry leaves, 

coriander, 

red chilli-2,

coconut (fresh) -1cup (grated -optional).

Method:-

Soak all lentils & rice.

Grind them all together to a fine batter (thick).

Add ginger. Red & green chillies &  coconut to the batter and grind them to a fine mixture.

See the batter consistansy (it should be like dibbarotte..thick batter). Smear the nonstick pan and

Spread one big spoon batter, pour oil around the ADAI. Let it cook (roast)  a low flame till it gets

Golden brown.

Roast it both sides & pour oil on the other side also. Serve with thick curds.

  15.corn dosa (butta):- 

It will be tasty with fresh seeds.

Deseed from the corns (2 in no.) & grind it to a fine paste along with 2 green chillies. (no need of adding water,)

Add salt later. Chop 1 onion finely & add to the batter.

Spread dosa from the centre & pour oil around dosa. Let it roast on a low heat. Turn the other side after done & roast it & serve hot.

IF YOU CANOT SPREAD DOSA:::ADD ATBSP OF GRAM FLOUR TO IT!.

16.Atta dosa(godhuma pindi)  :

It is a combination of atta (chapathi flour) 1cup and 1 cup of rice flour

salt, chillipowder and cummin seeds, curry leaves. Mix batter well & roast dosa and eat immediatly.

COCONUT DOSA

Rice                         1cup

Urad dal(blackgram)          1/3 cup

Coconut milk                 2cups

Salt  to taste

Poha(riceflakes)              1tbsp

Oil/ghee                      For roasting

Method:-

Soak seperately Uraddal,rice with poha.

Add coconutmilk and grind them to thick smooth paste.

Add salt and poha and add water if required.

Keep aside for 4-5 hours.

Make dosas and serve hot with coconut chutney!

BLACKGRAM & SEMOLINA DOSAS

Split blackgram                                     1 Cup
Semolina                                             2 Cups
Asafoetida Water                                 2tbsp
Salt
Oil

Method:
Soak Blackgram for about 3 -4 hrs and grind to a fine smooth batter.

Rice                          500gms

Green Gram                    125gms
Blackgram                     125gms
Allpurp[ose flour              ½ Cup          
Riceflour                     ½ Cup
Salt
Oil/butter/ghee

Mehtod:-
soak two dals for 3 hours along with rice.

Grind them together to a fine,smooth batter.

Let it ferment for overnight.

In another bowl mix allpurpose flour, rice flour and water and keep aside.,

The next day mix the two batters add salt ,mix water if required to make a smooth dosa batter.

Using ghee/oil  make very thin dosas ,(spread from the middle),roast on one side and fold it,serve it with sambar,coconut chutney!!

POLO DOSA   Grated dry coconut 50gms poppy seeds 3tbsp cashew nut pieces 2tb sp Raisin powdered sugar 3 tbsp. Almond granules 1tsp pistachio granules tsp cardamom powder. Method Mix all the ingredients. Make plain dosa and spread the masala over it and fold it and serve