Dosa Batter | How to make dosa batter? | Dose Hittu
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Recipe type: Homemade
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
 
Homemade dosa batter for hotel style dosas
Ingredients
  • 1 Measure or Cup urad dal/black gram/uddina bele
  • 1 Measure or Cup raw rice/sona masuri rice
  • 1 Measure or Cup basmati rice
  • 1 Measure or Cup idli rice/fat grained rice/mota daana chaawal
  • 1 Measure or Cup medium poha/avalakki/rice flakes
  • 10-12 or ¼ Tsp methi/fenugreek/menthya
  • ½ Tbsp chana dal/kadale bele/gram dal
  • Salt to taste
Method
  1. Clean and wash urad dal and chana dal twice
  2. Clean and wash all 3 types of rice twice/thrice
  3. Soak both dals along with poha, methi seeds for 7-8 hrs or overnight
  4. Soak all 3 types of rice for 7-8 hrs or overnight
  5. Drain the water from the dals and grind with water as required into a thick batter. Add salt while grinding. See notes
  6. Drain the water from the rice and grind. Add salt while grinding. See notes
  7. Mix rice batter with dal batter
  8. Cover and let it ferment for 12-15 hrs or overnight or sometimes a day. See notes
Notes
Dosa batter can also be ground in a wet grinder if you have large quantities or stone mortar by hand

Adding basmati rice gives a nice fragrance and taste to dosas

Adding chana dal/kadale bele makes dosas crisp but do not add more of it, dosas will become very crisp and turn hard when it cools

Adding methi seeds/menthya helps in fermentation of dosa batter and also gives a nice golden colour to dosas

Adding poha makes dosas soft and fluffy

If the weather is very hot and humid do not mix salt while grinding, instead add after batter is fermented just before making dosas

Depending on temperature, leave dosa batter to ferment overnight or 10-12 hrs. Sometimes I keep the dosa batter for 20-22 hrs for fermentation when weather is very cold

If weather is very cold, pre-heat oven to 40-50 Deg C. turn off oven. Leave the oven door open for 15 minutes. Cover the dosa batter and let it ferment inside the oven in warm environment

Same dosa batter can be used to make variety of dosas

Use 1 cup measure or any measure you want to make dosa batter in the same ratio, 1:3:1, urad dal:rice:poha ratio
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/dosa-batter/