Ingredients:
- Poongar / Women’s Rice – 2cups
- Grated coconut: 1 cup
- Thin Poha/Paper Aval – 1 handful
- Coconut Oil – For greasing
- Salt, Palm Sugar – As per taste
- Ghee/Butter
Procedure:
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- Wash and soak women’s rice for 8 hours minimum.
- Grind the rice along with grated coconut and poha to form smooth paste. The consistency of the paste should be slightly thinner than normal dosa batter.
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- Keep the batter covered for fermentation for minimum 8 hours.
- Now, check the consistency of the batter to be a bit more thinner than normal dosa batter, add water if required.
- Now add 1-2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp sugar and mix the batter well.
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- Now smear dosa tawa (preferably iron tawa, avoid non stick and induction tawas) with coconut oil using coconut fiber.
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- Heat the tawa for 2 mins, now pour dosa batter starting from outer circle and ending with inner circle and spread it with laddle to make circle.
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- Pour coconut oil little by little on the sides of dosa to complete the round and cover.
- Once the dosa is cooked, flip the other side and cover.
- Remove from tawa and serve hot with a dollop of desi cow ghee or fresh butter and coriander-mint chutney.
Note:
- Poongar Rice can be substituted with any traditional rice like Karuppu kavini/back rice, Mappilai samba etc..
- Before pouring dosa batter to make dosa everytime you can grease tawa with coconut oil generously to ensure batter doesn’t stick to it.
- You can skip adding sugar if you don’t like slight sweet taste to dosa.
- Spread the batter on tawa such that it is neither too thin nor thick.