Pesarattu Dosai

Pesarattu dosai is most commonly preferred food in Andhra pradesh. It is made of green moong dal/green gram,rice or rice flour . A very tasty and healthy dish, that can be taken as a breakfast also.

Preparation Time : Under 15 minutes
Cooking Time: Under 7 minutes

INGREDIENTS:
Green gram/Green moong dal - 1 cup
Cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon
Green chilli - 2 no.s
Ginger - 1 inch sized
Onion - 3/4 cup chopped
Rice flour - 3 to 4 tablespoon
Salt - As required

METHOD:

1. Soak green gram overnight. Next day,grind it with ginger,green chilli,cumin,onion,rice flour and salt in to a smooth paste. You can add some water to grind it. Make sure the batter is not too watery or thin. It should be little thick , so that it will be easy to spread on tawa.

2. Heat tawa and sprinkle some oil. Now take some batter, and gently spread the batter on the tawa. Add some oil.

3. As you see in above pic, the outer layer of the dosa is thick and not smooth. Use a wooden spatula and smoothen the dosa. This is very important because, it will make easier to flip the dosa to other side. If the outside layer of dosa is thick, it becomes very difficult to flip the dosa. So dont forget to smoothen the dosa using wooden spatula.

4. Now flip the dosa to other side.

5. Pesarattu dosai is ready. Serve with any chutney of your choice.

Pesarattu Dosai with Tomato Onion Chutney

NOTES:

1. You can also sprinkle some onion on the top of dosa, while you make it.

2. Sometimes in Andhra , they serve pesarattu dosai with rava upma inside. It is called  MLA pesarattu :) .

3. SEE ALSO: Dry fruit and nut rava dosai, Rice flour adai, vermicilli biryani