Podi Dosai – பொடி தோசை
Ingredients
- Medium sized Rice (Idli Rice) – 250g
- Urad dal – 190g
- Fenugreek Seeds – 2 tbsp
- Chana dal – 65g
- Sesame seeds – 65g
- Red Chilles – 6
- Garlic Cloves – 2
- Cumin Seeds – 1 tbsp
- Flex seeds – 2 tsp
- Black Pepper – 1 tsp
- Red Onion – 1
- Curry leaves – Few
- Coriander leaves – Few
- Oil – Required
- Salt – Required
How to Prepare
Total Preparation time 30-40 minutes
- Wash the rice, 125g urad dal, fenugreek seeds cleanly and soak them separately for 5 hours
- After that remove soaked water and move all into a grinder vessel, add enough water to make a batter and grind them well
- Finally add required salt and blend it well then leave the batter for 8-9 hours for fermentation process
- Check batter level, if its increased means fermentation happened properly and that is the perfect stage for good dosa
- Clean chana dal, sesame seeds, 65g urad dal, flex seeds, wash curry leaves, garlic and dry in sunlight for 2 hours
- Heat a pan, dry roast chana dal, urad dal, red chillies till dal become golden brown and keep aside
- Then fry cumin seeds, curry leaves, black pepper, grated garlic till curry leaves become crisp and keep aside
- After that fry sesame seeds, flex seeds till seeds splutter
- Take a blender jar, add all dals and red chillies and grind them for 2 minutes
- Add sesame seeds, curry leaves, cumin seeds, flex seeds, garlic and salt and grind them for 5 minutes
- Save the idli powder to a jar and keep aside
- Chop the onion and chop coriander leaves separated and keep aside
- Add onions and coriander leaves in the batter and blend it well
- Take a dosa pan and pour some oil and make it spread across pan
- Pour 2 ladle of prepared batter over the heated pan
- Spirally move the ladle to stretch the batter to a round shape as thinker as possible for crispness
- Sprinkle 1 tbsp prepared idli powder all the dosa
- Then add little oil over the edge of the dosai to avoid tearing
- Cook for 2 minutes and once it become golden brownish, turn it over using flat ladle
- Cook for a minutes and finally transfer into a plate
- Now the spicy Podi dosai is ready to serve.