Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Multi Legume Dosa/Crepe

    This is the recipe for a healthy, nutritious, delicious and spicy dosa. Idli/dosa is every South Indian’s favorite breakfast dish and there must be hundreds of varieties of dosa. My mother used to make this dosa for me when I was a kid. The whole kitchen filled up with an aroma when she made this dosa. I have not added egg to this dosa batter since I do not eat egg these days. Eggs will give it a nice color and more taste. I shall update the picture if I make this dosa adding eggs.

 

Multi Legume Dosa

Ingredients

1. Idli rice - 1/2 cup
2. Whole urad dal - 1/2 cup
3. Black chick peas - 1/4 cup
4. Green Gram - 1/4 cup
5. Peanuts - 2 tbsp
6. Pearl onions - 10
6. Green chillies - 6-7
7. Curry leaves - 1 sprig chopped
8. Cilantro - 2 tsp chopped
9. Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp (optional)
10. Egg - 1 (optional)

11. Salt - To taste

Ingredients for chutney

  1. Grated coconut - 1 cup
  2. Pearl onion - 2 - 3
  3. Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
  4. Green chillies - 2-3
  5. Curry leaves - A few
  6. Salt - To taste

     To temper

   7. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

   8. Pearl onion - 1 chopped fine

   9. Dry red chillies - 1

  10. Curry leaves - A few

   11. Oil - As required

 

Method

 

1. Soak the idli rice, urad dal, black chickpeas, green gram  and peanuts for around 2 hrs.

 

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2. Grind them with 3-4 pearl onion and  2-3 green chillies to a coarse paste.  Keep aside for around 1 hour. There is no need to ferment this dosa batter. Just before making dosa  add salt, chopped curry leaves, cilantro, cumin seeds, chopped green chillies, chopped pearl onion, egg (optional) and mix well. Make the dosa and serve hot with chutney. You won’t get crispy dosa with this batter but its tasty and healthy as well.

 

 

 

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For the chutney  

Grind the grated coconut, pearl onion, ginger, green chillies, curry leaves and salt in a mixer. While grinding you can add water if needed. In a pan heat some coconut oil and splutter mustard seeds. Add dry red chillies, chopped pearl onions and brown them. Add the curry leaves and pour the ground coconut mixture to this and heat through. Check for salt and switch off.

 

Sending this recipe to MLLA21 hostel by Mirch Masala and started by The Well-Seasoned Cook.

 

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We are also sending this recipe to JIHVA - Breakfast hosted by Veggie Platters and started by Mahanandi.

Also sending our vattayappam recipe and spinach, beetroot, carrot chapati recipe to JIHVA - Breakfast.

Vattayappam/Steamed Rice Cake

 

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Spinach,Beetroot,Carrot Chapati

 

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28 comments:

  1. I should say this one is the unusual kind of multi legume dosas. I was expecting to see the adais.
    Thanks for the yummy entries and your participation.

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  2. Wow! very delicious and healthy dosa...shall I take those dosas for my dinner? Btw, I love the colorful chappathis too..

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  3. lovely post and I specially love the beautiful looking chapathis in diff colors...have to try it now...

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  4. Hello Maya/Lakshmi... thanks for dropping by at my blog and leaving your comments.
    Dosa looks really delicious and also very healthy... nice addition of peanuts... and also colorful chapathis...

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  5. Honestly, I have to slowly go throu all your recipes, seems I 've a whole lot of unique recipes to explore here.. You have such a creativity and I love all your recipes, the steamed rice cake is tempting me too much, I'm bookmarking it.
    No words about this unusual dosa too.. very inviting!

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  6. KOllalo dosa..never ried adding kadala..undakki nokanam..evide elalrum valya dosa fans anu....Vattayapom pics are soo lovely ketto...

    Love
    Kairali sisters

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  7. I love any kind of dosa. We do similar kind of dosa with multi legume named Adai accompanied with Avial. With Coconut chutney dosa looks inviting !!

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  8. Wow, such an healthy and delicious dosa, will definitely try it. Your chapathi's are mind blowing. You both are really creative.

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  9. Hi Maya/Lakshmi thank you for your lovely comment in my blog.. Dosa looks so delicious and different never tried this type of dosas will try soon.. Colorful chapatis dear..
    I m following u...

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  10. Hey Your Dosa has come out so welll

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  11. wow healthy dosa....he he he by seeing the colour of chappathi,i thought its towal..he he he...

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  12. Such a healthy dosa to enjoy, that colourful chappathis attracts me a lot..yumm!!

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  13. very healthy one, nice recipe of chutney to go with it...and lovely entries for the event as well

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  14. Thanks for visiting my blog dear..u have so many colour recipes here..will follow u.

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  15. Looks so beautiful.. i love u r colourful chappati..
    http://rumanarawat.blogspot.com/

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  16. dosai looks perfect and very healthy option ,,chapathi looks colourful woow,,,today you got lot of colourful recipes,,simply superb

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  17. Healthy and delicious dosa...

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  18. Wow very nutritious dosa ...

    colorful chappathis stole the show dear .I cant take my eyes off from them .Beautiful click

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  19. chick pea cherthu njan dosa undakkiyittilla kto..adipoli ayittundu..gotta try this version..and my fav chutney too....looks so yummy!!

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  20. wow tat healthy choice ...neva tried tis type dosa be4..will give a try............frst time hr..u hv nice space ...glad to follow u

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  21. Wow very healthy Dosa..and so many nice recipes for the event..

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  22. Dear Maya and Lakshmi..what a beautiful space you have here. So glad could be here to check out ur awesome and mouth watering recipes. This is my 1st time here and I'm loving it...Thanks for ur kind words on my blog..and I'm glad you stopped by so I cd visit this Yummy O YUmmy space and will be visiting you regularly. LOved reading abt you both in the previous post(the honest things..).

    Coming to today's post..what a healthy and falvourful dosa with yummilicious clicks...

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  23. woww... very healthy and delicious dosa... following you

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  24. Lovely delights there...first time here...the legume dosa looks good and very nutritious.

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  25. is different. is special. is a must try.

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  26. thank u so much,my hubby and kids loved this dosa,i tried other recipes also,all came out well.

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