Dosa Batter - How Thin and How Thick - How to Mix Without Lumps

The usual way of making dosa batter involves shopping for rice, while lentil, fenugreek and other flavors that are necessary to make dosa, soaking rice and lentil separately, grinding them to a paste, leaving them aside to ferment and making dosa the next day.

You can read the details here: Dosa Recipe Without Instant Ready Mix

I have been getting more and more questions about mixing the dosa powder to get the dosa batter. If you are new to making dosa you should keep the batter a little thick. Add one and a half cup of water to one cup of dosa mix. If you are experienced you can add two cups of water to one cup of dosa mix and make the batter thin.

You can use a ladle or egg beater to mix the dosa mix and water.

Add the water little by little. Get a paste of the dosa mix and water. Then gradually add more while stirring constantly. This way you won't get any lumps.