Variety Dosas

Thinking of varieties of dosa, it’s an endless list. Uthappam, Tomato, Masala, Ghee, Vegetable, Cheese what not. I see you are drooling now.

O.K. I will tell how to make them just like that. The first step is to prepare the DOSA batter. http://dishesfordesis.blogspot.com/2005/08/dosa.html.

Dosa batters normally ferment day by day and on each fermentation you can dish out a new variety. For the OO techies, think of your Plain dosa as a base class, inherit it and add some attributes and you get variety of dosa. Oops!

Ghee Dosa
Use Ghee instead of oil for making dosa.

Cheese Dosa
Buy the shredded Cheese and sprinkle on top of dosa before you take it from the pan.

Masala Dosa:
Take one Aloo and one onion. Cut potato, add some salt and boil it in microwave for 5-10 minutes. Cut onion into slices. Heat the tawa with one teaspoon of oil. Now garnish with mustard, curry leaves (karuveppilai) and asoefetida(perungayam). Add the onion slices. Fry for few minutes and add the boiled potato, one pinch of turmeric, one tablespoon of chilly powder and cook for another 5 minutes. [You can also use any choice of peas (like pattani, Sundal) or beans (motchai, lima) along with this masala. Boil the peas and add it to the masala.] Before removing it from the stove, add some minced coriander leaves. Masala is ready.

Now you prepare the dosa and before you take out the dosa from the pan add one scoop of aloo masala you prepared, spread it over dosa. Leave for seconds and fold the dosa and remove it from pan. Yummy Masala dosa ready.

Vegetable Dosa
You can use anything from shredded carrot, cabbage, beetroot. If they are deeply shredded you don’t need to boil them otherwise cook them in microwave for 5 minutes and add it to the dosa batter and start making dosas. Simple.

Uthappam:
If you add Onion to dosa then it is Uthappam. You can either mix the onion slices onto the batter or sprinkle on top of dosa when it is getting baked. If you mix onion slices into sour batter (after fermentation of two days) and prepare dosa you will be really floored. For people don’t like sour batter they can use directly by sprinkling on the dosa and have it.

Tomato Dosa:
Slice the tomato into pieces, mix it to the batter and go making dosa!

Rava Dosa:
When the dosa batter is not enough or take little of it and mix it with a cup of Rava, tablespoon of Jeera, Curry leaves, sliced onions and leave for 30 minutes. If the batter is watery it will be better. If it’s more watery you really need to master when you take the dosa out of the pan.

Mangalore Neer Dosa
If you have only rice flour, you can prepare this. It doesn’t matter how many cups of rice flour you mix. Based on your needs, mix it with n cups of rice flour with water. Make sure the batter you make is watery. Add salt and 2 table spoons of Jeera. Leave it for hour and start preparing dosa.

Wheat/Ragi Dosa
You can prepare this either with Wheat flour or Ragi flour. It doesn’t matter how many cups of flour you mix. Based on your needs, mix it with n cups of flour with water. Make sure the batter you make is watery. Add salt and 2 table spoons of Jeera. Leave it for hour and start preparing dosa. You can eat this with Sugar also.

Appam
If you have only rice flour, you can prepare this. It doesn’t matter how many cups of rice flour you mix. Based on your needs, mix it with n cups of rice flour with water. Add some shredded coconut or coconut milk into it. Leave it for 8 hours. And start preparing. If you like sweet, add some jaggery and banana slices. Mouth watering sweet is ready.