Dosa from flour batter
Dosa with no grind dosa batter
This recipe is good for those on move from city to city , living in hotels or motels , constantly moving or in temporary residences and don't have gadgets like blender , grinder mixie ...Or the time to do it .
All you you need to do is carry sufficient flours ( better premixed with proportions etc from your home ) and just need to measure the quantity needed, make batter as per instructions , ferment prepared flour batter overnight and enjoy tasty dosas or idlis with same batter !
So useful and handy while traveling carry only ingredients and a dosa griddle ( some motels even provide a nonstick pan )
Enjoy hearty Indian breakfast in your hotel room . ( my experience many years ago ) two gadgets always travelled with me a rice cooker and a tava . I managed to cook almost all Indian dishes in our motel room .
Simple easy way to prepare idli, dosa, without soaking and grinding, very useful for bachelors and those with no kitchen equipment, a stock of flours will come handy to prepare the basic mix in bulk and you can ferment only as much as is needed even for just 4 idlis or 4 dosas..
so very easy solution for those pressed for time check my blog for more such easy to prepare dishes using simple quick fix solutions .
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ingredients :
1.5 cups raw rice flour or idiappam flour ( store )
3/4 cup udad dal flour ( store )
1/2 tsp methi powder ( optional )
1/4 cup sago flour ( sabudana flour from store )
Note
If you cannot get sago flour follow this measurements to prepare the mix, even methi powder can be skipped .
3 cups rice flour
1 cup udad dal flour .
Method
Take a large bowl or vessel, measure the flours and add water little by little to make a batter consistency just like ground batter, either using a whisk or you cna also blend it in a mixer .
cover and allow to ferment overnight or 8 to 10 hours depending on weather conditions, there is no fixed time for fermentation , i can ferment batter in 6 hours as my city is hot and humid most of the year . Batter will ferment just like ground dosa batter .
use for either dosa or idli .
To get crispy paper dosa, add 1/2 cup rice flour to the fermented batter ,mix and prepare dosa .
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