Ingredients:-
Soak together in water:-
take 3 cups of idli rice-puzungu rice (you may use normal eating rice too)
take one cup of plain eating rice
Soak together in water:-
take one cup of urad dal (full)/ ulatham paruppu
2 spoons yenthayam/ fenugreek seeds
Method to make the batter:-
Soak these ingredients in water for 4 hrs. If the urad dal is too much the dosa will not come out well and if it is too less it wont come crisp. The measurements ought to be perfect.
Grind the urad dal mixture first to a soft and smooth paste.It should be too thin. Don't put too much of water to grind in the mixer, add little by little. It should be a soft and fluffy.
Grind the rice to a fine paste. It will still be a little rough when you feel it in between your fingers.
Mix both these pastes and add 3-4 tbl spns of salt.
Store in a vessel and make sure its half empty or else it will ferment and overflow. Leave it overnight.
Tip:-If you are still think that it might overflow, keep a few tooth picks or match sticks on top of the batter. The batter will not over flow.
Always mix the batter making the idly or dosa.
Method to make Dosas:-
Take a non-stick pan/tava. Use a brush /paper towels to smear 1tsp oil on it evenly.
Heat the tava, keeping the flame/heat to medium.
Sprinkle some water to check if the tava is heated up. The water should evaporate immediately making a fuzzy sound. If it does, then the tava is ready.
Add one ladle full (medium sized ladle) of batter on the tava and spread the batter to make a circle immediately by rotating the ladle in a circular motion.
Add 2 tsp of oil on the dosa (periphery and center).
Allow it to get golden brown/light brown on one side (this takes 1 min or so and the upper side also begins to look cooked) and then turn the dosa and cook for a few more secs (20 secs if it is thin dosa. For a thick dosa may be 1 min or so).
Thin dosa is as thin as paper and thick might be 1/2 an inch thick or more.
Remove it from the pan/tava and serve hot.
Before making the next dosa, oil the tava with tissue and mix the batter before spreading it on the tava.
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