How to make dosa / How to make dosa batter. BB.C

This is a detailed step by step guide for you to learn How to make dosa / How to make dosa Batter.No matter you are a beginner or an experienced cook. Now let’s learn about what is dosa?

What Is Dosa?

It is a popular South Indian dish.
a thin crepe made from rice and lentils batter,
Soaked in water over the night in room temperature.

In the start, people used to make dosa from only rice batter.
After passing ages, people started adding urad dal and lentils for the taste and the texture.

Dosas got its popularity from the rise of Udupi hotels, as they serve the best varietals of dosas- plain dosa, masala dosa, set dosa, and rava dosa.
Dosas Are served hot with Coconut Chutney and Tiffin Sambar

How to make Dosa at Home?

Dosa is a simple recipe made by soaked and blended lentils (urad dal) and rice into a batter.

And batter is spread on a hot tawa or pan.

Is Dosa is a healthy Breakfast?

Dosa is considered to be the healthiest breakfast that nourishes our body.
It consists of nutrients of urad dal and rice.
urad dal is high in protein & calcium, it gives a good start to our day.
Idli and dosas are regular breakfast to make at home sometimes even for dinner.

Which is better to make the batter –

Wet grinder or a Blender?

In Indian tradition, the batter made in Rubbu Rolu.
You can use a wet grinder, my personal preference not to use as its time consuming to lift and clean the stones.
The batter rises even it’s done in blender.

What kind of a rice suits for dosa making?

There are many varieties of rice is available,

Raw rice is best for dosas.

Even the mix of raw & parboiled rice gives a good result depends mostly on the weather conditions.

How to make Dosa / How to make dosa batter:

Easy Dosa Recipe:

Ingredients:

urad dal – 1/2 cup
Raw rice – 1 & 1/2 cup
Chana Dal – 2 tablespoons
fenugreek seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
poha – 2 tablespoons
rock salt – 1/2 teaspoon

Preparation:

First rinse urad dal, chana dal and methi seeds with water in a large bowl several times to remove the impurities and drain the water.
Now rinse the rice for few times in a bowl and drain the water.
Soak urad dal, chana dal, methi seeds in a bowl.
Soak rice in a different bowl for 4 hours.

How to make Dosa Batter

Soaking:

Now soak poha in water for 30 mins.
Drain the water from urad dal, chana dal and methi, add soaked poha and water to the blending jar.
You can add the salt depending upon the weather, in your region.
If it is hot and humid don’t add the salt to the batter.
add salt to the batter and make dosas.

Blending:

Blend the mixture to smooth and frothy consistency, add water as necessary as needed.
The batter should be thick pouring consistency, not very runny.
Keep the dal, methi and poha batter aside.
Now drain the water completely from the rice and add it to the blending jar with 1/2 cup water.
Blend the rice to smooth and thick pouring consistency batter not very runny.

Mixing:

Now Take a large bowl and add urad dal and rice batter.
Mix well using your clean hands.
The warmness of your hand will help the batter to ferment.
Make sure of the batter consistency it shouldn’t be too thick and too runny.

Fermenting Dosa Batter:

Cover the bowl with the lid and place the bowl in a warm place overnight to ferment.
It will take 6 to 12 hours depending upon the climatic conditions.
If you are living in a cold region, you can use the oven to ferment the batter.
To ferment the batter in the oven, you just need to preheat the oven for 10 mins at 60 C and turn off the oven. Place the bowl in the oven just by turning on the light of it.
Well, Fermented dosa batter will rise and increase the quantity.
The fermented batter should be frothy and bubbly.
Stir the dosa batter to refrigerate it.
The fermented batter becomes thick, add water if necessary.
The consistency should be thick and little runny to spread the dosa.
Transfer a portion of it into a small bowl to make dosas.

How to make Dosa?

Let’s get started making dosas by greasing the dosa pan or a tawa with few drops of oil.
This prevents the dosas to stick to the pan or tawa.
Heat the pan too hot. to check just sprinkle some water on the pan and rub the pan with a clean piece of cloth.
The hot pan will sizzle if it’s ready.
Stir the batter and take a Round ladle full of dosa batter and pour on the centre of the hot pan.
Spread the batter immediately from the centre in a circular motion to make a thin crepe.
Add some oil or butter on the edges and cook it for a min on a medium flame. Dosa turns golden and crispy.

Taking Off the dosa and serving

The edges of Dosa starts to leave the pan, it’s done.
Now take dosa off the pan using a flat ladle.
It is not necessary to cook the dosa on the other side.
It’s necessary to cook on the other side if it is a thick dosa.
Or if you wish to cook just flip the dosa and cook it.
To make the next dosa Sprinkle some water on the pan and rub it with a clean cloth and pour the dosa batter.
Serve hot dosas with Coconut Chutney and Tiffin sambar.