South Indian Receipes, South Indian Recipes

DOSAI
(rice dosai)

Ingredients

• Blackgram dhal - 1/2 cup
• Raw rice - 3/4 cup
• parboiled rice - 3/4 cup
• fenugreek - 1 tsp
• salt - 1 and a half tsp

Method of preparation
Wash and soak raw rice and parboiled rice seperately. Soak dhal with fenugreek for 3 hours.
Grind rices into smooth paste. Grind dhal into smooth and soft mass. Mix with rice paste.
Add salt and well.

If the dosai has to be prepared on the same day, mix a little soured buttrmilk with the batter. I
f the batter is very thick, add little water and mix well.

Grease the dosai pan using a clean rag or with a stalk of a brinjal. Add water and mix
the batter to the correct consistency. Take a ladle full of batter and pour it in the centre.
Spread the batter to form a circle with the back of the ladle. Pour a tsp of oil around the
dosai. Then turn the dosal with a hepl of a flat dosai spoon and cook the other side
adding a tsp of oil. it takes apprximately 2-3 minutes to prepare one dosai.

If the dosais are prepared on the next day, the buttermilk need not be added. Keep the
batter as such. it will get fermented by itself. And you can make dosais.