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Green Dosai / Coriander leaves Crepes




This Green Dosai is a very easy, handy and yummy dish for breakfast, evening tiffin or dinner. If you do not have dosa batter at home and still want to have dosa , this is the perfect one to be prepared.


Ingredients you need :

1/2 cup - Raw Rice
1/2 cup - Toor Dal
1/2 cup - Coriander Leaves (cleaned , washed and chopped)
Ginger - 1 inch piece chopped
Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp
Coconut - 2 tbsp (optional)
Green chillies - 2 / 3 as per your taste
Salt as per taste

Tempering ( Optional)
1 tsp - oil
1/2 - tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp - asafoetida
few curry leaves

Method of Preparation:

1. Soak Raw Rice and Toor Dal together for atleast 2 hours.
2. In a grinder/ mixer, put the soaked rice, dal, and all other ingredients together and grind into a
    dosa batter consistency.
   The batter will look like this


3. You can temper batter with mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves , if you like. I have not done that
     because my kids doesn't like dosa that way.
4. Now heat a griddle / tawa and pour a laddle full of batter into a dosa and smear it with little oil.
    Cook it until it is crisp.
5. For kids, you can use ghee instead of oil.
6. The crispy, healthy dosa is ready to eat. You can eat it with any chutney or any of my 2 dosa podis
     dosa podi 1 , dosa podi 2  .
Click the words chutney, dosa podi 1 & 2 for the recipes

Enjoy the green dosa ............... will come back with another new and interesting recipe soon.

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  1. துரை செல்வராஜூFebruary 28, 2014 at 6:52 AM

    தங்களுடைய குறிப்புகளே - கொத்தமல்லி தோசையின் சுவையினைச் சொல்லி விடுகின்றன..
    இருப்பினும் நாளை செய்து சுவைத்தபின் மீண்டும் வருகின்றேன்.

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  2. Vidhya VijayakumarFebruary 28, 2014 at 6:59 AM

    மிக்க நன்றி துரை அவர்களே !

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