
Ingredients:
• 1.5 cups – Rice (boiled)
• 1.5 cups – Rice (kolam)
• 4 to 5 tbsp – rava
• ¾ cup – Urad Dal
• 150 gm – Butter (for frying the dosas)
• 2 tsp – Fenugreek seeds
• salt to taste
• For Masala Filling:
• 6 to 8 Potatoes (boiled and diced)
• 200 gm – Green peas (shelled)
• 8 to 10 Cashew nuts
• 4 tbsp – oil
• 1 tsp – Mustard Seeds
• 2 tsp – black gram dal
• 4 to 5 green chilies
• 2 to 3 Onions (sliced)
• 2 tsp – chili powder
• 1 tsp – Turmeric powder
• 4 to 5 tsp – grated Coconut
• 1 sprig Curry leaves
• 1 small bunch Coriander leaves
• 1 tsp – Jeera
• oil for frying Cashew nuts
• Lime juice to taste
• salt to taste
Method:
- Clean the rice and dal and soak together in water for 6-8 hours.
- Wash the rice and dal, add the fenugreek seeds and grind with a little water.
- Add salt to the dough and leave to ferment for 8-10 hours.
- Before frying the dosas add 4-5 tbsp of rava to the dough. Mix well.
- Make the dosas on a non-stick tava to get best results.
- Heat a non-stick tava, put in a spoonful of dough and spread on the tava to make dosas.
- Put 1 tbsp butter on the dosa and fry till crisp.
- Before serving put 2 tsp of masala on the dosa, fold and serve hot with chutney.
- For the Masala Filling:
- Heat the oil and fry the cashew nuts and set aside.
- Boil the potatoes and cut them into pieces.
- Boil the peas.
- In a vessel heat 4 tsp of oil and add the mustard seeds and black gram dal.
- When the mustard seeds start to splutter, add the cumin seeds, green chilies, green chilies and sliced onions.
- Fry till the onions turn pink.
- Add the potatoes, green peas, salt, chili powder, turmeric powder and a little water. Mix well.
- Now add the lime juice, grated coconut and curry leaves and lastly garnish with coriander leaves (finely chopped) and fried cashew nuts.
Recipe courtesy of Anitha Raheja