Variety of dosa recipes are a must for a South Indian home cook. Dosas are not just masala dosas as many think , they are much more. There is so much variety, so many recipes to play with. The end result is always tasty, delicious dosas for everyone to enjoy! This red rice dosa is one such great alternative to prepare.
I had raw red rice at home and also some red rice poha (flattened rice/avalakki). The best way to use red rice is to make red rice dosa, you get a lovely coloured dosa and the texture is crispy on the outside and soft inside.
Red rice dosa is made pretty much the same way as the regular dosa. See my recipes for regular dosa batter and masala dosa. I had also made a very crude video for making dosas (making food videos is a challenge, time-wise and effort-wise). You can make crisp dosas without excessive oil right at home! Serve red rice dosa with any variety of chutney you like, aloo masala and sambar.
See my other dosa recipes:
Set Dosa
Khaali Dosa
Majjige Dosa
Neer Dosa
Cabbage Dosa
Ragi Dosa
- 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
- In a container, add cleaned red raw rice and wash with water twice
- Add red poha and wash 1 more time
- Similarly in another container wash urad dal twice
- Pour enough water to soak red rice + red poha mixture
- In the same way pour enough water to soak urad dal
- Throw in some methi seeds into the urad dal
- Let both dal and rice soak for 6-8 hours
- After soaking time, drain water from the red rice
- Add little water and grind into a batter
- Pour this batter into a bowl
- Drain water from urad dal and add some salt to taste
- Grind into a batter, thick and pourable
- Pour urad dal batter into the red rice batter
- Mix very well till it becomes one even dosa batter, let it ferment for further 8 hours in warm place
- Heat a pan on medium heat
- Take a big ladleful of dosa batter and pour on heated tawa
- With circular motion spread a nice thin dosa. See my video here
- Drizzle oil or ghee, cover and cook
- When the underside is cooked, flip
- After about 10 seconds, fold and serve!
- Serve red rice dosa with chutney, potato masala and sambar
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
Red Rice Dosa Stepwise:
In a container, add cleaned red raw rice and wash with water twice
Add red poha and wash 1 more time
Similarly in another container wash urad dal twice
Pour enough water to soak red rice + red poha mixture
In the same way pour enough water to soak urad dal
Throw in some methi seeds into the urad dal
Let both dal and rice soak for 6-8 hours
After soaking time, drain water from the red rice
Add little water and grind into a batter
Pour this batter into a bowl
Drain water from urad dal and add some salt to taste
Grind into a batter, thick and pourable
Pour urad dal batter into the red rice batter
Mix very well till it becomes one even dosa batter, let it ferment for further 8 hours in warm place
Heat a pan on medium heat
Take a big ladleful of dosa batter and pour on heated tawa
With circular motion spread a nice thin dosa. See my video here
Drizzle oil or ghee, cover and cook
When the underside is cooked, flip
After about 10 seconds, fold and serve!
Serve red rice dosa with chutney, potato masala and sambar
