- Preparing Dosa Batter And Fermenting: Pick and then take idli dosa rice or parboiled rice, urad dal, methi seeds in a bowl. Rinse all of them together for a couple of times. Drain and keep aside. Take 1.5 cups puffed rice (50 grams) in a bowl. If you want you can rinse them too once. Or add them directly to soak. Do note that rinsing makes the puffed rice a bit sticky to handle. Strain and add the rinsed puffed rice to the bowl containing the rinsed urad dal, rice and methi seeds. Pour 3 to 3.5 cups water. Stir well, cover and allow all the ingredients to soak for 5 to 6 hours. Strain very well and add the soaked ingredients in a grinder jar. Strain really well as the puffed rice holds quite some water. Also when adding water for grinding be careful. Add 1 tbsp all purpose flour (maida). Add water in parts and grind to a smooth batter. A rava like grainy consistency of the rice is also fine. I ground in two parts. In the first part I added 1/2 cup water and in the second part, I added 1/4 cup water. So overall used 3/4 cup water for grinding. Take the ground batter in a bowl. Add 1/4 tsp sugar. mix very well. Cover and keep the batter to ferment for 8 to 9 hours Before making the dosas, add 1/4 tsp baking soda and salt as per taste. Mix very well. Preparing Benne Dosa In a cast iron tava or griddle, spread some oil with a spoon or with halve of a onion. Take a ladle of the batter and pour on the tava. Heat the tava first very well. Before spreading the batter, reduce the flame and then spread the batter. Gently spread to a slightly thick dosa. Once you spread the dosa, increase the flame to medium intensity. You will begin to see a lot of tiny holes in the dosa. Cook on medium flame till the top has cooked. Once the top has cooked, add some butter on top. Spread the butter gently all around with a spoon or spatula. Flip the dosa. Cook for some seconds or a minute and then fold. Serve hot.
Benne dosa
#myrecipe
By Chandana Guptha
Jan, 10th
573
Servings
2 persons
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
11
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Ingredients
- Idli eice
- Urad dal
- Maida
- Methi seeds
- Puffed rice
- Sugar
- Water
- Soda
- Salt
- Oil
- Potatoes
- Onion
- Green chillies
