This is a very easy and healthy dosa prepared with just 2 main ingredients- rice flour and wheat flour (no maida). If you learn to make this dosa, it will save you a lot of time, it will come handy when you return home late from the office and make your time in the kitchen quite pleasant
Prep time - under 5 minutes Yields - 20-24 dosas
Ingredients needed
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1 cup
Green chillies -2 very finely chopped
Ginger - small bit finely chopped
Cumin seeds/Jeera - 2 tsp
Curry leaves - few tender ones
Salt - 2 1/2 tsp approximately (add less or more according to your taste)
Water - 4 cups
Oil for making dosas (I use only sesame seed oil for my dosas)
Tawa
For the seasoning
Oil - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds -3/4 tsp
Hing - a pinch
Preparation
In a bowl, mix together wheat flour, rice flour, green chillies, ginger, cumin seeds, curry leaves and salt.
Add water little at a time and mix well so that there are no lumps.
Heat a tsp of oil, add mustards seeds, when it splutters, add hing and pour it into the dosa batter and mix well. Now your wheat dosa batter is ready. See how watery and thin it is in the picture below.
Method
Now heat a tawa, once the tawa is heated, reduce the heat to medium, pour a ladle of batter from the outside of the tawa, then fill in bigger gaps if any.You cannot spread this batter like regular dosa but have to pour the dosa batter like rava dosa. There should be small holes in the dosa.
Now drizzle a tsp of oil around the dosa and 1/2 tsp of oil on the dosa.(be a little generous with oil for this dosa- sesame seed oil is considered very healthy)
This dosa will take a little longer time to get cooked than regular dosa. Using the tongs or handle, move the tawa in a circular motion once, so that the dosa will get cooked evenly on all the sides. (see pic 1 below)
Wait until the bottom starts browning and the corners start lifting up. (see pic 2 below)
Now flip the dosa to the other side.Once the other side is cooked, remove the dosa from the tawa.
Before making the next dosa, mix the batter well to avoid sedimentation. You have to mix the batter every time before making every single dosa.
Repeat the same process for the rest of the batter.
If you are a beginner, you might find it difficult the first two times or you may even fail, but once you practice, you can make this dosa with ease. Do not give up. Initially try with less quantity.(1/4 cup rice flour + 1/4 cup wheat flour).
Serve with any chutney or sambar