Dosa Recipe Without Instant Ready Mix

How do you prepare dosa, if you do not have the ready mix?

You can, of course, prepare dosa without instant ready mix. All you need is rice, lentil, fenugreek and a few other flavors.

Of course preparing the side dish is not covered in this recipe.

1. Take three cups of rice and soak them overnight. Add enough water to immerse the rice completely.

2. Soak a tea spoon of fenugreek seeds along with the rice. Fenugreek is good for health and it adds to the taste of the dosa.

2. The next day morning take a cup of lentil (urad dal) and soak it in water. Urad dal is white and you get the whole and split dal in the stores. The whole ones are good for making dosa and idli.

3. You will need a mixer grinder, a dosa pan, ladle and spatula. The rice is passed through a mixer grinder to get a coarse paste. You can also make the paste using a traditional hand driven stone grinder or an electric dosa grinder available in stores.

4. After grinding the rice to a paste, remove it and keep it aside. Start with the dal. Grind it to a fine paste. You can go on sprinkling water on the paste periodically and grind further. One cup of dal paste will fluff up and become equal to three cups of rice paste.

5. Now add the rice and dal paste and grind them together with salt and a few other flavors that will make your dosa exotic.

Now your dosa batter is ready for use.

From here it is the same procedure as making a dosa with the instant dosa mix. You can watch the video and see how to make dosas.

If you want to make idlis, leave the batter overnight to ferment.

The consistency of the batter will determine, if your dosa gets off the pan or not. In case you have problem separating the dosa from the pan, follow these steps:

1. Dip the spatula in cooking oil.

2. Pass it through the edges of the dosa.

3. Slightly move towards the center of the dosa and lift it slowly off the pan, without breaking the dosa.

4. Lower down the flame so that the dosa does not get burnt when you are trying to get it off the pan.

5. For the next dosa your pan might have got too hot. Sprinkle a little cold water on the pan to cool it. Smear a little cooking oil first. And then make the next dosa.

If you do not have the time to go through the long process of making the dosa batter go for instant dosa mix.

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- Instant Adai Mix

- Instant Wheat Dosa Mix

- Instant Healthy Roti Mix

- Instant Chutney Powder

- Instant Curry Powder

and more...

Here is what Mike Seiler who has tried out our product says:

"The Instant Dosa Mix (Indian Pancakes) arrived very quickly. It was a joy to be able to make our own Dosas without having to spend a lot of time tracking down ingredients. Besides, the Instant Dosa Mix tasted better than when I put the ingredients together myself anyway.

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- Mike and Rachel, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Try it once and you will come back for more :)