06 January 2014

Mixed Flour Dosa

Mixed Flour dosa is an instant dosa that is made with combination of flours. We call this dosa as "Karacha maavu dosa" in tamil. As this an instant dosa, we need not worry about grinding the batter and fermenting. The preparation time for this batter is just less than 5 minutes and it can be made immediately after the batter is prepared. However, I generally set aside this batter for minimum 5 to 10 minutes and then start making the dosa. After a long day, if you are tired to prepare extensive dinner, this dosa can come to your rescue. Children will surely like the crispiness in the dosa & will eat well.

This dosa is very similar to rava dosa, both by looks and taste. Unlike the sada dosa, this karacha maavu dosa batter is prepared by making a thin circled layer  of the batter from the outside  and then smearing the batter randomly inside, hence this dosa looks so porous in between and the edges turn out very crispy when the dosa gets cooked.

Any combination of chutney goes well with this dosa. Even small onion or drumstick sambar makes a good combo for this dosa. I have tried this dosa with just milagai podi (gun powder) and the combo was awesome. Now let's look at making this instant and tasty dosa.

Ingredients:

Rice Flour - 2 Cups
Maida Flour (All purpose flour) - 1 Cup
Sooji (Rava) - 1/2 Cup
Salt - 2 tsp
Green chillies - 2 (chopped finely)
Cumin seeds - 3/4 tsp
Whole black pepper - 3/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 4 (chopped to fine pieces)
Oil - 2 tsp (for batter)
Oil - 4 tbsp (for cooking)
Water - 4 to 5 cups


Method:

1. In a bowl, add the rice flour, maida flour and salt and mix well. Add water and mix into batter consistency. The batter should be very loose(little watery) in consistency. 

2. Once batter is ready, add cumin seeds, green chillies, whole black pepper, curry leaves, 2 tsp of oil and mix well & set aside for 5 minutes (setting aside is optional, you can start making dosa instantly too).


3. Heat the tava, and drizzle oil evenly, take a ladle of batter and drop them into thin circle in the corner of the tava, and then smear the batter randomly in all directions within the circled layer criss-cross.  Add oil on the corners and in the middle randomly and wait till brown spots appear on the lower bottom corners of the dosa.




4. Then, toss the dosa around and wait for 30 - 45 seconds and then turn the dosa around, brown spots will be seen on the turned side, fold the dosa into two and remove from stove and transfer to a plate.


 
This Instant Dosa (Karaicha maavu dosa) goes well with coconut chutney, but you can have any desired chutney or sambar as it's side-dish.

 

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