Kancheepuram Dosai/ Hot and Spicy Dosa / Thaallitha Dosai
- 28
- January
- 2011
Kanchipuram Dosai:
Ingredients:
Parboiled Rice 1 cup
Raw rice 1 cup
Urad dal 1/2 cup
Fenugreek seeds 1 spoon(optional)
Salt as per taste
Cooking soda less than 1/4 spoon
Sesame oil few spoons(optional)
Batter Preparation:
Soak rice and urad dal in water each separately. Maybe soak fenugreek along with urad dal. Wet grind them each separately to coarse thick batter. Then, mix the batter together, add salt, soda and oil..you know, right!…and allow this to ferment.
For Seasoning:
Cashew nuts 10 chopped
Chana dal 1/4 cup
Urad dal 1/4 cup
Asafoetida 1 spoon
Mustard seeds 1/2 spoon
Black pepper 1 spoon
Cumin seeds 1 spoon
Green chilies 6-8 chopped(or dry red chilies if desired)
Coconut finely chopped 1/4 cup
Curry leaves few
Salt
Ghee or sesame oil 1/4 cup.
Method:
Heat ghee/oil in a wok. Add mustard, pepper, cumin, asafoetida, green/dry red chilies and curry leaves. Let them pop and splutter well.
Now add chana dal, urad dal and cashew nuts to this. Fry till they turn reddish brown.
Run this seasoning over the fermented batter. Mix them thoroughly.
Heat up a griddle and make thin crepes…run few spoons of ghee or oil, cook both the sides.
Serve warm with coconut and tomato chutney. This dosa tastes good, even without any side dish.
Dosa looks superb….loved the name of it.
biny
Perfect for Brunch on a weekend ….. looks delicious !!
Cheers,
Satrupa
http://satrupa-foodforthought.blogspot.com
Yumm, thats an inviting dosa, can have it anytime..
Nice tasty recipe!.. looks very inviting
love the seasoning… its sure looks so spicy
Yummy dosa !! looking delicious
some nice ingredients there and the name tht’s interesting !
Idly is familiar,but this one sounds like a nice idea too,looks yummy!
Dosa is so tempting..
tasty and yummy dosa..very tempting..
Bookmarked dear. Looks super tempting and delicious.