SAGO DOSA (SABAKKI DOSA)

When I think of Adai I think of my MIL, the adais she prepared were absolutely gorgeous to eat.  she was preparing it just like Tamilnadu style i think, but what my mother prepared were good too, the taste was same but mom was too health conscious otherwise my dad would never touch it!, My MIL never grinded the adai into a very smooth batter it was more coarse and she would pour it just palm size and quite thick like an aapam. My mom used to grind it into a very smooth paste just like the dosa consistency and she would spread into very thin dosas like a paper dosa!.

• 1 cup Raw Rice
• 1 fistful of urad dal
• 1 fistful of moong dal
• 1/2 cup of chenna dal
• 1/2 cup of Tuvar dal
• salt as required

VARIATIONS:

• The above is just a basic method like my mom makes and my photos are just like what my mom made.
• The way my MIL made was she used to grind Dosa in a coarse consistency, she also used to soak 7 to 8 red chillies  with rice & dals and grind them together with a bit of asafoetida.
• After they were ground she used to add 1/2 cup of fresh grated coconut, 1/2 bunch of nicely chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves, curry leaves.
• If some more of the batter is left over the next day she used to add onions too!
• And she used to prepare lovely thick fat adais and we used enjoy eating it with Desi ghee! it was one of her favourite tiffin varieties.

This dosa what my MIL made did not need anything to with just as it was a great dosa.

SNAKE GOURD SEED DOSA 

In that Harini talks about the goodness of the whole green gram dosas and how good it is!, I usually made it when some body was really not feeling well, I had heard from mom that these dosas are easily digestible and as we all know green gram brings down the heat from your body.

In my In-laws house my MIL used to cook paitham paruppu (green gram/moong dal) most of the time, I started using different vegetables in them, she also used them in the dry curries with vegetables like beans, carrot, cabbage, beetroot etc.,

well let me come back to the recipe...

The Dosas she used to make were very soft and like  a flower it was, may be it makes a lot of difference when you grind it in a grinding stone than using a grinder or a mixer, actually when I was writing this I thought rather, remembered it does really make a difference because in amma's house, amma used to grind for vadas in stone and it used to taste so well, than in the mixie.  The other thing is you can grind coarsely as you want it to be than in the grinder or mixer you can achieve the perfect consistency.  

• 4 cups Raw Rice
• 1 cup whole Urad dal (not split)
• salt as required
• 1 tbsp of Fenugreek seeds
• 4 to 5 finely chopped onions
• 3 to 4 sprigs of curry leaves
• 5 to 6 green chilies
• 1/4 bunch of coriander leaves

1. Soak Rice & Fenugreek seeds together  and Urad dal separately for 7 to 8 hours or soak them overnight and grind them in the morning into a smooth batter.
2. Leave it to ferment for about 6 to 7 hours or leave it overnight if you have soaked in the morning and grinded it by night.
3. Chop onions, coriander leaves, curry leaves and green chillies finely, mix them all together and keep it aside in a bowl
4. Take the batter in a container and add water to the consistency of pouring Dosas
5. Heat a Tawa, just hold your hand a little above the tawa to know that it is hot or heated up then take 1 & 1/2 ladle of Dosa batter , pour it on the tawa and spread it on the tawa not too thin, let it be thick
6. Immediately sprinkle the mixed onion mixture evenly on it, press them a little so they get stuck to the batter & allow it to cook for 2 to 3 minutes.
7. Then flip it over carefully, and cook for another 2 minutes, then turn it back and serve hot with coconut chutney or what ever you prefer to eat it with.    
8. If you do not want to flip it over you can just cook it on one side and serve it just like that too...

PS: 🙂 I did not have too much onions that day, that is why my dosa is not upto the mark..., but I just thought let me as well post it.

This is different kind of uttapam, well, even though the recipe for uttapam is same, I did just a little bit of alteration as I had to make it ferment quicker because my son was not ready to wait, He is an ardent lover of dosas, any time is Dosa time, if you ask him what do you want to eat, he says Dosa.  Well, on Saturday morning I told him that he had to wait till the evening may be it would ferment by then because even the weather was not promising , as i was grinding for the batter just then, he was not at all happy.  I was quite upset as he started his tantrums, I was looking around the kitchen and putting things in their places I saw this packet of bread, when I opened it they had left the first and the last of the bread slices in it and had finished all the rest !!, Sometimes my husband eats it but most of the times I have to pester my children to eat it or I throw them !!.  That's it,  I just got an Idea, as the grinding was in process, I just soaked these two slices of bread in for a minute and put them in the grinding machine, and got my Dosa batter ready and within an hour my Dosa was ready to go on the tawa !!,  Then I decided to make it into a vegetable uttappam and here i am with the recipe...

This is my Children's  favourite Breakfast/Tiffin , If you ask them any time of the day, or take them to a hotel everyday, they will always ask for Dosa, They wanted me post this recipe, as they want to treasure it.  They say mum prepares the best Dosas in the world and the most crispiest Dosa for my eldest, and tastes just like Masala Dosa from cafesri in Bangalore. I  do not know truthfully if it is just like that, but I like this combo and usually prepare Dosa like this.  This is my mom's recipe.

 CRISPY MASALA DOSA

Serve it with Dry Potato Curry and coconut chutney and Onion Sambhar.
For MASALA DOSAS You need to make Red Chutney which is poured over on the last round of the dosa, with nice bit of oil , keep the potato curry in the middle and fold it in two's or triangles or cones or any way you like in the restaurants and is served with chutney and sambhar. Oh! just thinking of Masala Dosa  reminds me of Vidyarthi Bhavan in Gandhi Bazaar he generously puts a dollop of Benne or Butter on top of it before serving. It is heavenly and the whole area is filled with the Dosa smell..... and makes you hungry!

POTATO DRY CURRY FOR THE FILLING

INGREDIENTS :

• 1/4 Kg Potatoes
• 1/4 Kg or little less Onions
• 4 to 5 Green chillies
• 1 tbsp of channa dal
• 1 tbsp of Urad/Black gram Dal
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1 tsp of turmeric powder
• 1 sprig of curry leaves
• 4 to 5 sprigs of coriander leaves
• 3 to 4 tbsp of oil

METHOD:

1. Wash and cook the potatoes in the pressure cooker from 2 to 3 whistles depending on the potato you are using, and allow it to cool
2. Meanwhile, Chop onions finely, cut green chillies. wash and chop curry leaves and coriander leaves, keep them aside.
3. Next peel the skin of the potatoes, and mash them slightly so they break into pieces.
4. Take a wok, heat oil, add mustard seeds, when they start spluttering, add chopped green chillies and fry until they turn colour,
5. Then add all the dhals and fry them until they change colour, add Turmeric,Then add onions and fry them until they are transparent.
6. Now add the curry leaves mix once and then add the mashed potato, and sprinkle desired quantity of salt, mix well , sprinkle little water and close the lid for few minutes, allowing the potatoes to absorb all the spices into them.
7. sprinkle chopped fresh coriander leaves mix well and now they are ready to serve.

RED CHUTNEY

INGREDIENTS:

• 5-5 (Guntur-Badgi) Red chillies
• 1 tsp jeera
• 3 to 4 flakes of Tamarind
• little jaggery
• 1 big onion
• 2 to 3 pods Garlic (optional)
• salt to taste

METHOD:

1. Soak chillies and  tamarind in water
2. fry onion to transparent
3. mix all the above said ingredients and grind it into a smooth paste.
4. Make it little watery so that you can pour it on the Dosa, on the circles created when spreading it.

Some of the Restaurants use Garlic powder as an alternative to Red chutney and here is the Recipe for garlic powder

GARLIC POWDER

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/2 cup of Garlic peeled
• 1/2 cup of dry coconut or copra
• 5 to 6 flakes of Tamarind or gooseberry size
• 1/2 tsp of Ghee
• 6 to 7 Red chillies
• little jaggery
• salt to taste

METHOD:

1. Peel and keep the Garlic pods.
2. Heat Ghee in the pan roast the garlic pods nicely
3. Then add dry coconut and Tamarind and just roast them to just warm up
4. Take out and keep them aside, In the same pan add a bit of oil and fry the chillies.
5. Then mix all the ingredients together and grind it into a coarse powder (chutney pudi consistency)
6. Use this just like the Red chutney and sprinkle on the dosa, Then keep the potato curry and fold.

NOTE: This Garlic powder is good for Baananthis/ Post partum  (that is ladies who have just given birth to babies) Women who have gone through this process after the birth of a baby they give different type of foods, which helps the mothers to get their immunity and strength back to normal for all the trouble they have taken to bring a new life on to the earth!.

COCONUT CHUTNEY:

INGREDIENTS:

• 1 or 1/2 coconut
• 2 to 3 tbsp of Chutney Dal/Hurigadale/Pottukadalai
• Tamarind Gooseberry sized
• 5-6 Green chillies
• 2 to 3 sprigs of coriander leaves
• a pinch of asafoetida
• salt to taste
• 1/4 tsp sugar

METHOD:

1. Slightly warm up the gooseberry sized tamarind directly on the stove holding with the help of Tongs (I got this thing from some cookery show I think it says the bad qualities of Tamarind gets diminished of doing so!)
2. Then Grind grated coconut, tamarind, salt, asafoetida, sugar and coriander leaves in a mixie to a nice paste.
3. Give a seasoning with a tsp of oil and 1 tsp of mustard seeds to the ground paste and now it is ready to serve.

TIPS

When you roast dosa on tawa using ghee instead of oil it gives a special aroma and gives a good colour as well.  Applying butter on the dosa or before serving put some butter on top of the dosa and serve.

Cut a small onion horizontally rub on the tawa or pancake girdle before you spread the dosa, This will help you lifting the dosa more easily.  Always cook in a medium heat this will keep the temperature same and tawa will not get heated up.  After making 4 to 5 Dosas sprinkle some water on the tawa which will cool down the tawa and maintains the tawa well.

NOTES:
Here as it is cold during winter fermentation takes longer time, you can keep the batter in oven - electric ovens have light you can switch it on and leave Or keep next to Heater Or in Boiler room where it will be very warm.
Dosa batter will be thicker in consistency, Every time you plan to make Dosa take as much batter as you need add water to bring it to pancake consistency and make Dosas with it.

Hope I didn't bore you with so many chutneys to a single Dosa! well, as we know We all love Dosa and it is a Great South Indian Tiffin Variety which is so famous world wide!!.