HOW TO MAKE CRISPY DOSA AND DOSAI BATTER

HOW TO MAKE CRISPY DOSA AND DOSAI BATTER

Dosa and idly are the everyday breakfast for almost all the Tamil Nadu people. Even though we eat it daily, it won’t get bored .Now let me tell you how we make the dosa batter for a crispy mouth watering dosa or dosai.

The batter is same for making both idly and dosa.

TO MAKE THE BATTER

Let us start making batter in few simple steps,

 Step 1: take 4 cups of idly rice, wash nicely and soak it in a bowl for 4 hour

Step 2: Now take 1 1/4 cup of urad dal (use only whole urad dal and not broken),2 spoons of methi seeds(vendhayam)wash nicely and soak it in a separate bowl for 1 hour.

(for example: at 1 o clock soak idly rice and by  4 o clock soak urad dal and methi seeds or vendhayam  in another bowl ,let them soak till 5 o clock(both idly rice and urad dal).

Step 3: now drain the water from urad dal and grind them nicely. Sprinkle some water if needed to get grinded well. After grinding urad dal, remove it from the wet grinder and place it in a boul.

Step 4: Now grind idly rice in a wet grinder by adding little water and remove the grinded rice batter from wet grinder and pour it together with grinded dal batter and mix well by adding salt (as needed).

Let the batter ferment for 12 hours and after 12 hours the batter is ready to make idly and dosa.

Store the batter in refrigerator after it is fermented.

TO MAKE DOSA 

Let us learn to make crispy dosai or dosa,

Step 1: Heat non-stick dosa tawa or dosai kallu . Take the dosa batter in a bowl. In a ladle take up to ¾ level of dosa batter and pour it to the dosa tawa and start spreading the dosai(as shown in the picture)

 Step 2: Cook for 2 minutes, drizzle the oil all over the surface of the dosa and also around the edges. Flip and cook the dosa for 1 minute, now fold it by half and remove it from heat. Serve hot with chutney. (For chutney recipes look at my menu, side dish for idly and dosa)