Plain Dosa

Recipe Ingredients:

1 cup black gram

3 cups rice

1 tbsp fenugreek seeds

salt (according to taste)

5-6 tbsp oil

How to Prepare:

Soak black gram, rice and fenugreek seeds in enough water overnight or for at least 4-6 hours. Drain the water and keep the drained water aside, grind the soaked black gram into silky smooth batter add the drained water that had kept aside, as needed to the batter or till soft and fluffy.

Add salt and mix well untill well combined. Cover and keep it for overnight fermentation in warm place. By morning the batter will be ready for making dosa.

Preheat a heavy-base cast-iron griddle (tawa) or a large heavy-base frying pan over a medium-high heat, add 1/2 tbsp oil.Spread oil all over the pan. Pour 2 or 3 ladelful of dosa batter on the griddle and cook for 2-3 minutes. Using a thin spatula, turn over and cook for 30 seconds.Remove from the pan and keep hot by covering in a piece of foil lined with kitchen paper. Repeat with the remaining dosa batter.

Place 1 or 2 dosa on serving plate and serve with chutney.