Barnyard Millet Dosa
Healthy dosas made with barnyard millets
Servings 15 dosas
Ingredients
- 2 cups of barnyard millet (samak/bhagar/varai)
- 1 cup of split black gram (udad dal)
- 1 tbsp of fenugreek seeds (methi)
- 2 tbsp of split gram (chana dal)
- salt to taste
- Oil or ghee for cooking dosas
Instructions
- Wash and soak barnyard millet alongwith methi seeds and chana dal for 4 hours.
- Wash and soak udad dal for 4 hours.
- After 4 hours, drain the water from udad dal.
- Transfer to a mixer jar.
- Add some water and blend to a fine paste.
- Transfer the udad dal to a deep vessel.
- Blend barnyard millet, methi and chana dal to a fine paste.
- Add this to the udad paste.
- Add salt and mix well. Keep aside for fermentation for 10 to 12 hours.
- After 10 hours, the batter would be fermented.
- This batter can be used to make idlis and dosas.
- For making dosas, we need to add water to the dosa batter and make the consistency thinner.
- Heat a dosa pan.
- Drop some drops of ghee or oil on the pan and spread the ghee on the pan with a tissue paper.
- The tawa should be hot before pouring the dosa batter on it.
- Pour a ladle of dosa batter and spread it in a circular motion to form a thin dosa.
- Drizzle a tsp of oil or ghee around the dosa and cook the dosa on low flame.
- Repeat the same with the remaining batter, Serve dosa with chutney/sambar.