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Feb17

Vazhaipoo Adai Recipe / Plantain Flower Lentil Dosa Recipe

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I have shared the recipe for adai/lentil dosa, now its another version of adai with plantain flower. I like plantain flower to the core. I have tried Plantain Flower Fritters and curry but this time I thought of trying it with Adai/Lentil Dosa. “When the fritters comes out delicious, why not the lentil dosa come out?” this resulted in the making of Plantain Flower Lentil Dosa.

Do check out my Plain Adai recipe, Murungai Keerai Adai / Moringa Leaves Adai , Adai from Leftover rice, Egg Adai recipe / Mutta Adai.

It was so soft, crispy and delicious but got few more mins to get done when compared to the Lentil Dosa/Adai. Goes out good for breakfast, dinner or snack time with sambhar and chutney. Let us move on to the recipe…

Vazhaipoo Adai / Banana Flower Lentil Dosa

Ingredients:

  • Vazhaipoo / Plantain Flower – 1 no
  • Raw rice – 1 ½ cups
  • Pigeon pea / Toor dal / Tuvaram paruppu – ¼ cup
  • Whole Black Lentil / Urad dal / Ulundam paruppu – ¼ cup
  • Split Green Lentil / Moong dal / Paasi paruppu – ¼ cup
  • Split Bengal Lentil / Split Channa dal / Kadalai Paruppu – ¼ cup
  • Butter milk – ½ cup
  • Onions – 2 nos
  • Fennel seeds / Perunjeeragam – 1 tsp
  • Methi seeds – 1/4 tsp
  • Red chilies – 4 nos
  • Garlic – 5 cloves
  • Curry leaves – 3 sprigs
  • Salt to taste
Banana flower about to grind with garlic, fennel, red chilies
Got grinded
Lentils and rice to be soaked
Grinded rice and lentil mixture
With Banana flower mixture
All together
Getting cooked
Getting cooked the other side
Vazhaipoo Adai / Banana Flower Lentil Dosa
Vazhaipoo Adai / Banana Flower Lentil Dosa

Preparation:

  • Soak rice, methi seeds and all the lentils together in a bowl for almost 4 hours, drain the water and grind it to a coarse paste by adding water.
  • Add in the salt, mix it well and transfer it to a bowl.
  • Clean and soak the plantain flower in butter milk and a cup of water for 10 mins, drain the water and keep it aside.
  • Grind the plantain flower, fennel seeds, garlic, and red chilies to a fine paste by adding little water and pour it to the grounded rice batter.
  • Mix all together and rest it for 10 mins.
  • Peel and finely chop the onions and curry leaves, add it to the batter.
  • Heat a tawa, rub with oil, spoon a batter to the tawa and spread it equally from the centre to the corner of the tawa, with the back side of the ladle.
  • Drizzle few drops of oil along the sides and top of the adai.
  • Wait for few mins or until it starts turning golden brown and now swap the sides of the adai and let it cook for few more mins.
  • Wait until it turns golden brown, transfer it to plate.

Serve hot with Tiffin sambhar and Chutney.

Note: The consistency of the batter should be like the Dosa batter consistency. Soaking the plantain flower in butter milk, helps it from decolurisation.

Do check out my other breakfast recipes in this link: https://madraasi.com/recipes/breakfast-dinner/.

Sep23

Dosa – Food History

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Dosa, is a common breakfast and street food in south India such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala. Not only for breakfast also goes well for dinner. Also I would say that it’s a staple food among all south Indian families. Later as south Indians travelled all over the world, it has been popular in most of the countries like Singapore, Malaysia and so on.

Origin of Dosa: Dosa is known as Dosai, the first reference to dosa in Tamil literature was made by Western Chalukya King Somesvara III in the year 1054 AD and this was mentioned by a food historian K.T. Achaya in 6th Century. Later P. Thankappan Nair, mentioned that dosa originated from Udipi town of Karnataka. So it was strongly believed that Dosa originated from Tamil Nadu.

Above Details collected from Wikipedia.

The original Tamil Dosa was softer and thicker, but the thinner and crispier version of Dosa was originated in Udipi, Karnataka.

Names of Dosa: Dosa is known by several names, Dosai – Tamil Nadu, Dose – Kannada, Dosa – Malayalam and Telugu. Also it’s called as dhosi, dosey, doza, dhoza, those, thosai, thhosa …

Nutrition: It is high in Carbohydrates and contains no sugar or saturated fats. Also it’s a good source of protein.

Preparation: Dosa is prepared with the fermented batter made up of rice and black gram in the ratio of 4:1. Rice and Black gram are soaked overnight separately with a handful of fenugreek seeds along with rice. Later both the ingredients are drained and then urad dal is grounded to a fine paste by adding little water and then the rice along with fenugreek is grounded to a fine paste by adding water little by little. Both the batter are poured into a wide mouthed bowl, add in little salt and mix well with your hands, so that both the batter would be mixed well. Ferment the batter for almost 12 hrs, then dosa is prepared. Fenugreek seeds are added to give golden brown color and crispiness for dosa.

Recipe link with step by step dosa batter preparation: https://madraasi.com/2014/05/04/dosa/.

 

Fermented batter getting mixed

Shell life of Dosa Batter: Dosa batter can be refrigerated for almost 5 days in an air-tight container.

 

Varieties of Dosa: There are many varieties of Dosa, instead of rice and urad dal, wheat flour, rava, moong dal are also used to prepare dosa. Also dosa can be stuffed with veggies or non veg like chicken, mutton as they give different flavor and taste.

Check out this link for 10+ Dosa recipes: https://madraasi.com/2015/08/20/dosa-collection/

 

10+ Dosa Collection

10+ Dosa Collection

How to Serve:

Dosa is commonly served with

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Jul23

Mysore Masala Dosa

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Here comes one more entry to my Dosa list, Mysore masala Dosa one of my all-time favorite. The very first time I had this Mysore Masala Dosa in Bangalore an year back in a small restaurant. After having the dosa, I have been crazy for it, atleast once in a month I use to have it. My daughter also loves it a lot, but she feels the red chili chutney spreaded in the dosa too spicy and so she requested me to prepare it at home with less spiciness. I started hunting recipes and finally was full filled by a recipe and prepared at home.

Check out my other breakfast recipe: https://madraasi.com/recipes/breakfast-dinner/

We loved it more than that of the restaurant’s one. Let us move on to the recipe…

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Mysore Masala Dosa
Mysore Masala Dosa

Ingredients:

Potato masala
Masala getting done
Masala almost ready
Red Chili Chutney / Thuvaiyal
Red chili chutney apread over dosa
With potato masala
Covered and getting cooked
Almost done
Mysore Masala Dosa
Mysore Masala Dosa

Preparation:

  • For potato filling:
    • Ingredients: Potatoes – ½ kg, Onion – 1 no, Green chili – 1 no, Asafoetida – a pinch, oil-2 tsp, mustard seeds – ¼ tsp, cumin seeds – ¼ tsp, curry leaves – 1 sprig, salt to taste.
    • Preparation: Boil the potatoes, drain the water and mash them well. Peel and finely chop the onions and green chilies. Heat oil in a kadhai, add in ¼ tsp of mustard, cumin seeds, and green chilies and curry leaves. Wait until they crackle. Add in the onions and cook until they golden brown. Add in the mashed pototo, ¼ tsp of turmeric powder, asafetida and salt. Pour in ½ cup of water, give a stir, cover and cook until the gravy thickens. Remove from fire.
  • Heat the griddle and rub oil on the griddle. Spoon the batter in the griddle and spread it all over the griddle with the back side of the spoon.
  • Now add 2 tsp of red chili chutney on the top of the dosa and spread it with the spoon.
  • Add in a tbsp. of potato filling over the red chili chutney and spread it with the back side of the spoon.
  • Drizzle few drops of oil along the sides and over the dosa. Keep in medium flame and cover it with the lid.
  • Cook for few mins, fold the dosa and remove it to the plate.

Serve hot with sambhar and chutney. I have accompanied it with sambhar and red chili chuntey.

Note: Spread the red chili chutney as per your taste buds.