Tomato Dosa

Is red your favorite color??? Its my favorite. I just love dishes that are in red. So here is a red colored gorgeous tomato dosa for your eyes and tongue to enjoy :)


Ingredients:

Par-boiled rice - 1 cup
Tomato - 4
Red chillies - 6 nos
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt - for taste


Method:

Soak the rice in water for two hours. Grind it along with the other ingredients and make a watery batter.

Now heat the skillet and pour a ladle full of batter starting from the edges in a circular way. Since the batter is loose it will automatically fill the middle portion. Add a spoon of oil to roast it. Turn the dosa and roast it on the other side too.

Yummy tomato dosa is ready to eat. :) Serve it hot with pickle or chutney.

Happy making. :)




Written by: Nithya
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Andhra Pesarattu

Andhra food is know for its spicy flavors and for the very different combination. This one is a special dish made locally in Andhra.

The greenish dosa attracts our eyes and the crispy onion filling make it more interesting. This could be a highly nutritious breakfast for all. :)


Ingredients:

Whole green gram with skin - 1 cup
Onion - 1 medium sized
Ginger - 1/4 inch piece
Green chillies - 5
Raw rice - 2 tbl sp
Salt - for taste



For Filling:

Finely cut onions - 3/4 cup
Finely cut green chillies - 1 tbl sp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tbl sp




Method:

Soak green gram and rice together for atleast 8 to 10 hours in enough water. Grind with onion, ginger and green chillies. Add salt at the end of grinding.

For filling: Heat oil in a pan and fry cumin seeds, green chillies with diced onions for 2 to 3 min and keep it aside.

Heat a heavy dosa pan and make dosa by spreading from center. Add a tsp of oil around and roast. Sprinkle the onion mixture on top and press with a flat laddle. Roast in midium flame till the dosa becomes crisp. Fold and serve hot with ginger chutney or onion chutney.

Note: Do not turn over the dosa after adding the filling.

Variation:

You can also make pesarattu uppuma. Just replace the onion filling by 2 to 3 tsp of uppuma and fold the dosa. Serve this with onion chutney or coconut chutney.
In Andhra they fondly call it as MLA Pesarattu. :)




I am sending this Andhra special dish to Shanthi Krishnakumar's lovely 'State special' event.



Written by: Nithya
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Wheat Bread Dosa

Bread is nice.. But remix of bread is all the more yummy :)

Got this idea from Ganga of 'My Favourite Foods' who had recently invented this bread dosa. Thanks to Ganga for her cool new idea. I have a slightly modified version of this inspirational dish here.

Enjoy bread in a different form :) Happy cooking :)

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Bread (choose sandwich bread or salt bread)- 10 slices
Maida - 1 cup
Tomato - 2
Chilly powder - for taste
Salt - for taste




Method:

Grind bread, maida and tomatoes together adding some water to it. Finally add chilly powder and salt to the batter. The batter should be like dosa batter.

Now make dosas in pan by adding oil. I made small dosas since its really attractive and fun to eat. You can make normal dosas as well. :)

Top it with coconut chutney or tomato sauce and enjoy eating wheat bread dosa :)



Written by: Nithya
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Sago Dosa

Do you want your dosa to be white, yet paper roast and spicy???? Then say SAGO DOSA :)

If you are bored with all the typical varieties of dosa, then you need to go for a change, try this simple one.

Ingredients:

Sago(Javarisi) - 1/2 cup
Raw rice - 1 cup
Par-boiled rice - 1 cup
Green chilly - 1
Coriander leaves
Curry leaves
Salt - for taste




Method:

Soak sago, raw rice and par boiled rice together in water for 6 hours minimum. Leaving it over night gives the best result. Now grind it into a smooth paste. The batter should be in the consistency of rava dosa batter(watery). Add chopped chilly, coriander leaves, curry leaves and salt to it and mix well.

Now heat the skillet and pour a ladle full of batter starting from the edges in a circular way. Since the batter is loose it will automatically fill the middle portion. Add a spoon of oil to roast it. Turn the dosa and roast it on the other side too.

Sago dosa is ready to eat. :)

Serve it hot with chutney and idly chilly powder(Idly molagapodi) :)

Note: Eat these dosas hot. It will harden when it cools down.

I am sending this dosa to 'Dosa corner' event of Padma's Recipes blog.

Written by: Nithya
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Vegetable Dosa Roll

Hot dosa is my favorite breakfast always. Soft dosa or paper roast, ghee dosa or uthappam, onion dosa or masala dosa whatever it is... I just love dosa. :)


Mom usually used to complain that I dont take much of vegetables and always fall for junk food. :( If you have such complaints at home or your kids are that way.. Then you should make this all vegetable nutritious dosa roll which no kid would deny. :)


Ingredients:

Carrot - 2
Onion - 2
Peas - 1/2 cup
Potato - 2
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salt - for taste





Method:

Chop all the vegetables. Now in a pan take a 2 spns of oil and fry the vegetables for a while and then add little water and close it wit a lid till it gets cooked. Finally add salt, chilly powder and garam masala to it and mix well. Make dosas and fill it with the vegetable masala and roll it. :) Vegetable dosa roll is ready to eat. :) This is a nice variation from normal masala dosai. Serve this hot with chutney, sambar or curd. :) Happy eating :)



Make it more interesting by adding all possible combi of vegetables and wrap it in anything and eat.. Enjoy cooking. :)


I am sending this simple breakfast to Divya's 'show me your breakfast event'. :)




Written by: Nithya
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Go Green Dosa!

I love colors in my food. It makes me eager to munch. :) If those colors are not just colors but nutritious ingredients!!, what else could be as interesting as this. :)


Ingredients:

Dosa batter - 1 cup
Drumstick greens(Murunga Keerai) - 1 cup
Green chillies - 3
Garlic - 6 pods
Salt - for taste


Method:

Grind drumstick leaves, green chillies and garlic together finely. Now mix this with the dosa batter and add a little salt to it. Now makes dosas as usual with this batter. Green dosa is ready to eat :)

This goes well with coconut chutney. Healthy eating :)



Written by: Nithya
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Iron Adai

Do you want Iron sakthi in your food??? Do you want to brush your tummy clean????

Here is a very healthy version of adai which does the above and is very tasty too. Come on lets graze a little. :) :) Eat healthy and live long :)

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 1 cup
Par boiles rice - 1 cup
Thoor dhall - 1 cup
Coconut - 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Red chillies - 8
Drumstick greens (Murunga keerai) - As much as you want
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt - for taste


Method:

Soak raw rice, par boiled rice and thoor dhall together in water for 2 hours. Grind it coarsely along with other ingredients except for the greens. Once the batter is ready add greens to it and mix well. Make adais in tawa, roasting it on both the sides. Greens adai is ready to eat.

It goes best with Avial or butter or onion pickle and also with curd. :) For kids sugar is the best option along with adai. :) Happy eating. :)




Written by: Nithya
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Spongy Rice Dosa

Remix is becoming a fashion in music. why don't we do it in food too. Yeah.. I am a person who really hates to waste food. It happens that almost everyday there is some food left out because of poor eaters at home. Its always good to make use of such food to remake new dishes.

Lets remix the old rice into spongy dosas. :)


Ingredients:

Cooked Rice - 1 cup
Raw Rice - 1 cup
Salt - for taste
Cooking soda - 1/2 tsp



Method:

Soak raw rice for an hour. Now grind it smoothly along with cooked rice. Mix it well adding salt to it and let it for fermenting. May be for a night or so. Add cooking soda just before you make dosa and mix well. Now make dosas in the pan. :) Rice dosa is ready to eat. :)

Serve it hot with chutney or pickle. :) Happy making and enjoy eating :)



Written by: Nithya
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