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Dosa recipe | street style dosa with dosa batter | dosa batter for 99 variety of dosa

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Soaking & fermentation time 7 hours
Total Time 7 hours 25 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine south indian
Servings 10 dosa

Ingredients
 

For dosa batter

  • 1 cup dosa rice - par boiled rice
  • ¼ cup urad dal
  • ¼ tsp methi dana
  • ¾ cup + ½ cup water or as required
  • ¼ cup gram flour - besan
  • ¼ cup rava - fine variety
  • Salt to taste

For paper dosa

  • Dosa batter
  • Butter

For cheese schezwan dosa

  • Dosa batter
  • Butter
  • Schezwan chutney
  • Schezwan sauce
  • Cheese cube
  • Coriander leaves

For jini dosa

  • Dosa batter
  • Butter
  • Chopped onion
  • Chopped tomatoes
  • Chopped capsicum
  • Chopped cabbage
  • Schezwan chutney
  • Tomato sauce
  • Red chilli sauce
  • Kashmiri red chilli powder
  • Garam masala
  • Cheese cube
  • Coriander leaves
  • Spring onion greens.

Instructions

Making dosa batter

  • In a mixing bowl, add 1 cup dosa rice (par boiled rice), ¼ cup urad dal and ¼ tsp methi dana. Wash and soak it for 3-4 hrs.
  • Rice and dal properly soaked, remove its water and add into mixture jar. Add ¾ cup water and grind it into smooth and medium thick batter. Do not grind it into thin batter.
  • Now in a mixing bowl, add ¼ cup besan, ¼ cup rava and ½ cup water. Mix well. Add grinded dal-rice batter and mix well.
  • Cover and ferment batter for 3 hrs at any warm place.
  • Batter is properly fermented.
  • Add salt and some water to adjust batter consistency.
  • Dosa batter is ready. You can use this dosa batter for different street style dosa.

Making paper dosa

  • Now heat, tawa and sprinkle some water and decrease tawa temperature. Spread dosa batter with ladle.
  • Spread some butter on dosa.
  • Cook dosa on low to medium flame till it crispy.
  • Remove some extra batter with ladle (refer video)
  • paper dosa is ready. Serve hot with chutney and sambar.

Making cheese schezwan dosa

  • Now heat, tawa and sprinkle some water and decrease tawa temperature. Spread dosa batter with ladle.
  • Spread some butter on dosa.
  • Now spread schezwan chutney and schezwan sauce on top of dosa.
  • Grate cheese on the top and sprinkle some coriander leaves.
  • Cook dosa on medium flame till it become crispy.
  • Cheese schezwan dosa is ready. Serve hot with chutney and sambar.

Making jini dosa

  • Now heat, tawa and sprinkle some water and decrease tawa temperature. Spread dosa batter with ladle.
  • Spread some butter on dosa.
  • Add ¼ cup chopped onion, ¼ cup chopped tomatoes, ¼ cup chopped capsicum, ¼ cup chopped cabbage, 1 tsp schezwan chutney, 1 tbsp tomato sauce, ½ tsp red chilli sauce, some Kashmiri red chilli powder and some garam masala. mix well and crush masala slightly with masher.
  • Now spread masala on dosa.
  • Then great some cheese on masala. sprinkle some coriander leaves and spring onion greens on it.
  • Cook dosa till it become crispy.
  • Transfer cooked dosa on chopping board and cut it into strips. Roll strips and serve jini dosa with chutney and sambar.

Notes

  • You can use small-grain rice instead of idli rice (parboiled rice).
  • Use only ¼ cup urad dal with 1 cup rice.
  • Do not add more water while grinding soaked dal and rice.
  • The consistency of the ground batter should be medium-thick and ribbon-like when pouring.
  • Do not increase the quantity of besan and rava in the dosa batter.
  • Ferment for 3 hours in a warm place.
  • The consistency of dosa batter should be medium-thick for easy spreading on the tawa.
  • Sprinkle some water on the hot dosa tawa to decrease its temperature.
  • Cook the dosa on medium flame until it becomes crispy on both sides.
  • Spread butter on the dosa before spreading schezwan sauce; butter keeps the dosa crispier.