Red Rice Dosa | Kempu Akki Dosa | Dosa Recipes
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
 
A tasty and healthy alternative to regular dosa, red rice dosa
Ingredients
  • 2 measures/Cups red raw rice
  • ½ measure/Cup urad dal
  • 1 measure/Cup kempu avalakki/red poha/flattened red rice
  • 1 Tsp menthya/methi
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil to make dosas
Method
  1. In a container, add cleaned red raw rice and wash with water twice
  2. Add red poha and wash 1 more time
  3. Similarly in another container wash urad dal twice
  4. Pour enough water to soak red rice + red poha mixture
  5. In the same way pour enough water to soak urad dal
  6. Throw in some methi seeds into the urad dal
  7. Let both dal and rice soak for 6-8 hours
  8. After soaking time, drain water from the red rice
  9. Add little water and grind into a batter
  10. Pour this batter into a bowl
  11. Drain water from urad dal and add some salt to taste
  12. Grind into a batter, thick and pourable
  13. Pour urad dal batter into the red rice batter
  14. Mix very well till it becomes one even dosa batter, let it ferment for further 8 hours in warm place
  15. Heat a pan on medium heat
  16. Take a big ladleful of dosa batter and pour on heated tawa
  17. With circular motion spread a nice thin dosa. See my video here
  18. Drizzle oil or ghee, cover and cook
  19. When the underside is cooked, flip
  20. After about 10 seconds, fold and serve!
  21. Serve red rice dosa with chutney, potato masala and sambar
Notes
You can also use regular poha instead of red rice poha

Batter should not be very thin

Ensure to pick and clean red raw rice, it might have some residual stones as it is not processed much
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/red-rice-dosa/