Rava Dosa / Semolina Pancakes

Tired of eating rava upma? Then try out this simple rava dosa. I love all rava dishes here and this is another simple rava recipe added in the list. You can make this as a quick break fast dish or a spicy evening snack. It will be too good if you serve this with some ulli chutney or some spicy fish curry, enjoy!

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Madakku Pola / Folded Crepes

Last year, I had written about the white beautiful polas / arippodi dosa / rice flour pancakes from our cuisine.It still remains as a wonderful member of the breakfast / dinner menu which can be taken with any curry! This time, another "pola" from my place which you might have noticed in many other blogs in various attarctive names! Love letters,madakku san, mutta kuzhalappaam, Thera ada,elaanji.. etc are the names I could see in other blogs.Earlier maida / all purpose flour is used for making this, but at home we altered it to aatta / wheat powder or a mixture of aatta and maida.During childhood, we often enjoyed this snack, which was enough to fill the stomach! Nowadays this lovely pola has been one of the kid's favourites, and I enjoy making this for them.. You can change the filling according to your taste, jaaggery or sugar with coconut, plantains etc..I used Aatta for making this, hence it got the golden color.



Ingredients
Aatta / wheat powder / maida / all purpose flour 1 1/2 cups
egg 1
sugar
water
coconut grated
salt
ghee



How I prepared
Break the egg into the flour. Blend them with enough salt and water. Make a medium thick batter by adding enough water.You can avoid adding egg if you don't like.The batter should be without lumps.(If you like cardamom flavour , add a cardamom while blending).
Heat a frying pan / griddle, pour one or two ladle ful of batter.Spread it using the back side of ladle.Do it carefully.
When one side is coooked, flip it over, and pour little ghee (1/2 teaspoon or more) over it.When the other side too cooked, remove from the griddle, and keep on plate.
Put grated coconut-sugar or coconut-jaggery mixture over it and fold.
Serve hot.
Enjoy with tea!

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Parippu Dosa / Pancakes With Dal

Ingredients
Chana dal or tuar dal 3/4 cup
raw rice 1 cup
shallots 4
green chillies 3 or 4
curry leaves 1 sprig
cumin seeds 2 pinches
salt
ghee



How to prepare
Soak rice and dal for 4 or more hours.
Peel shallots. Grind all the ingredients together with enough water just to cover the ingredients. The batter should have the thickness of the normal dosa batter.
Heat griddle, pour a ladle full of batter. Spread like you make uzhunnu dosa. When one side is done, dosa separates itself from the griddle , then apply little ghee on it and turn.
Serve when the other side is also done. Enjoy with usual chutneys or chammanthis.

My contribution to Srivallis's Dosa Mela...!

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Coconut Pancakes / Thenga Dosa

A simple breakfast dish using coconut and raw rice

Ingredients and method
Raw rice / Pachari 1 1/2 cups
coconut grated 1/2 or 3/4 cup
sugar 1/2 tsp
salt
ghee or oil

Soak rice in water for 3 or 4 hours. Grind with water , sugar, salt and coconut. Grind to a smooth batter. Heat griddle / frying pan , apply little oil or ghee and make dosas. Cover with a lid. Have with meat, fish, egg or vegetable curries..!

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Rice powder Dosa / Pola /പൊടിപ്പോള

This is the most easiest break fast dish for me. Mom makes it with different types of curries.
Vegetable, meat, fish, egg - curries and chutney / chammanthi, all are great with this dish. If you like to have a sweet dish, take this with coconut milk and sugar.
Pola / പോള means a very thin sheet. These dosas are very thin and hence the name.


Rice powder pancakes

Ingredients and Method
rice powder roasted 1 cup
egg optional
water
salt


Coconut dosa

Mix everything together. Add enough water to make the batter. Make a buttermilk like thin batter. If you use egg, mix it very well in the batter(I haven't used egg for making dosas in the above picture.) After you prepared three or four dosas, the batter will be thick, so add little water and salt again.Repeat the procedure till finish making it.

Heat a frying pan or a griddle /ദോശക്കല്ല്‌. Dip the part of a tissue or a cloth in little oil or ghee. Wipe the surface of the pan with it. Then pour the batter over this. No need to rotate like other dosas, since the batter is very thin, will spread itself. Cover with a lid. No need to flip over this. When it is cooked , we can take the dosa easily from the griddle.

You can make coconut dosa by adding two or three tablespoons of fresh grated coconut too.


Coconut dosa with fish curry

How to prepare Rice flour / Arippodi
Since a few of you have doubts about what kind of rice flour that we should use for making this dosas, I add a little more information regarding that.
Actually, the rice here is raw rice / pachari. Here, I get it from the shops which is labelled as white rice.For making rice powder at home, wash and soak rice in water for half an hour then drain.Let the water go wholly but before it is completely dried up, powder them using the grinder.
Then dry roast this powder. We do this just to increase the shelf life of the rice flour, since it has water content in it. So after roasting you can keep it long in tightly closed tins. (Still I use the rice flour which I brought from home in August). Don't roast for long , until it changes color. Roast by stirring continuously till you feel the powder is not wet.
After that sieve it. You can use this powder for making dosa / pola or pathiri. For making puttu, no need to sieve powder. For puttu , it is better to use some coarse powder.
If you get ready made rice flour, no need to roast it. They might have done it already. More over, the roasted powder can reduce the cooking time also.(Since it is already cooked). Thats why while making pathiris we wouldn't cook the powder too much in the boiled water.

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Masala Dosa

For making Dosa
white rice 2 cups
black gram dal / uzhunnu parippu 1/2 cup
green gram dal / cherupayar parippu 1/4 cup
cooked rice 1/2 cup
water
salt



Soak rice, black gram dal and moong gram dal in water for 3 to 6 hours. Wash and grind them together using enough water to make dosa batter. Then blend with cooked rice. Add salt and keep for fermentation up to 12 hours.Add yeast if needed. Make dosas on a hot frying pan or thawa. Spread little ghee over it.



For Making Potato Masala
potatoes 2 big
onion 1
ginger 1/2 inch piece
green chillies 2 or more
curry leaves few
coriander leaves chopped few
tomato 1
turmeric powder 1/2 tea spoon
chilly powder 1/2 tea spoon
cumin seeds 1 pinch
oil
salt
mustard seeds

Boil and peel potatoes. Mash them. Heat oil , splutter mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Saute chopped onion. When it is transparent, saute chopped green chillies, chopped ginger and curry leaves. When the smell comes, add chopped tomato and coriander leaves and the powders and salt. Let the tomato cook well, then mix this with mashed potatoes.

Other curries to take with Dosa,
Sambar
Chutney
Chammanthi

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