Pesarettu | Pesarattu | Breakfast Recipes | Dosa Recipes
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 3-4 people
 
A classic Andhra breakfast dish, made using protein-rich mung beans, pesarettu
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup mung beans/hesaru kaalu
  • ⅛ Cup rice flour
  • 1 green chilli
  • 1" ginger
  • Few curry leaves
  • ¼ Tsp black pepper powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 Cup finely chopped onions
  • Oil to make dosas
Method
  1. Take mung beans in a bowl
  2. Wash and enough water to soak the mung beans, soak overnight
  3. After 6-8 hours, drain water from the mung beans
  4. Add this to a mixer jar
  5. Next add curry leaves, chopped ginger and green chilli
  6. Add pinch of hing and jeera
  7. Add salt to taste and enough water
  8. Grind into a thick and slightly coarse batter
  9. Take the batter into a bowl
  10. Add rice flour and mix it well with the batter
  11. Sprinkle black pepper powder
  12. Heat a tawa, pour a ladleful of batter and start spreading the batter with ladle in a circular motion
  13. Spread it nice and thin with some ridges, the coarse batter allows you to do so
  14. Sprinkle some chopped onions on top, a few here and there, drizzle some oil on top
  15. Cover and cook till underside is golden
  16. Fold into half
  17. Serve immediately with allam chutney
Notes
Adding onions can be optional, they are added only for some crunch

Instead of rice flour, upma rava can be added

Do not make very thick dosas, it should be slightly thin so the pesarettu turn out crisp

Remember batter should not be very thin and it should be slightly coarse
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/pesarettu/