Masala Dosa

Tomorrow, some friends are coming over my place and for them I want to cook rather special dish. i.e., Masala Dosa. Though it is not that special for us as we eat it often but for guests certainly it would be unusual.

Ingredients:

For Dosa crust:

3 cups rice

1 cup urad dal

1 cup curd

½ tsp soda bicarbonate/ 1 packet Eno

Salt to taste

For Stuffing:

5 medium sized potatoes

2 medium sized onion (sliced)

1 tbsp green peas

½ tsp mustard seed
1 tsp chana daal

2-3 green chili sliced vertically

½ tsp turmeric powder

1 bunch of Coriander leaves

2 tsp oil

Salt to taste

 

Direction:

 

Masala stuff:

• Boil potatoes and peel it.
• Heat oil in a pan and add green chilli, chana daal, mustard seed in it. Wait till popping sound comes from it and add onions in it.
• Cook onion on medium till golden brown.
• Add peas,salt, turmeric powder and other spices (as per your taste) and stir for about 3 minutes.
• Put in potatoes and mix well.
• Add chopped coriander leaves and stuff is ready to place in.

Dosa crust:

 

• Wash rice and urad dal one by one and soak them for about 4 to 6 hrs or overnight.
• Grind dal and rice separately to a paste but be careful that in case of rice paste would be a little rough.
• Mix them together in a deep pan. Add soda bi-carb/Eno and salt and mix well.
• Sprinkle a little water if required to make batter. Make sure the batter should be rather thick.
• Cover and keep aside in a warm place for about 7 to 10 hours, untouched.
• Add curd and mix well.
• Heat pan on a medium flame and put oil with the help of cotton or tissue paper.
• Pour the batter on pan with the help of bowl in circular motion to make it skinny.
• Flip the side and add previously prepared stuff inside Dosa and turn round.
• Serve hot with Sambhar and Coconut Chutney.

Sambhar

South Indian recipe which I learned from my mom when I was just 9, I made it couple of times but not as good as my Mom can.It is highly nutritious as it consist of green vegetables,pulses.If you do not have pumpkin you can also add potato or other vegetables as per your taste.

Ingredients

For Sambhar
1 cup toor dal (arhar)
1 tomato, chopped
1 onion, chopped

1/2 Green pumpkin,sliced
1 to 2 brinjals, sliced
1 drumstick, cut into 4 pieces
1 tsp tamarind pulp (imli)
salt to taste

For Sambhar masala
4 to 6 red chillies
1 tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp fenugreek seeds (methi)
1 tsp toor dal (arhar)
1 tsp split Bengal gram (chana daal)
1 tsp split black gram (urad dal)
1 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
1/2 tsp asafoetida (hing)
1 tsp oil

For tempering
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
6 curry leaves
1/4 teaspoon asafoetida (hing)
2 tablespoons oil

Direction:

For Sambhar Masala

• Heat the oil in a pan and cook all the ingredients for the sambhar masala in it.
• Take all the ingredients in a food processor and grind to a smooth paste using a little water. and set it aside.
• On the other side wash the daal and cook it into the pressure cooker along with potato,tomato, onion, brinjals, drumstick and with 2 cups of water.
• Add the tamarind pulp, sambhar masala, salt and 4 cups of water and let it boil.
• For seasoning, heat a pan with oil, add curry leaves, mustard seeds,asafoetida and finely chopped green chilies. When mustard starts popping, remove and pour over sambhar and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Serve hot