Moong Dal Rava Dosa

After four long years, I have gone to my grandma’s place. I recollected my golden childhood days that I spent in farms next to her house. Every summer vacation, we visit her place and we play, play and play throughout the day in the ground next to the temple in that village. She comes to the ground and yells at us. Not for playing but for tasting(eating) the bhachanams(Sweets and snacks) she made. Those days are like festival days and she treats us with different types of foods for all the days we stay there.

With those wonderful memories, when we visited her this time, she prepared Moongdal Rava Dosa upon my request. She has been preparing it for ages. There are many recipes, I learnt from her and I have posted few already here. I promise that the other recipes will also follow in my space. Coming to today’s recipe, She used yellow split moong dal. I usually use whole green moong dal for making this dosa. Both the recipes give distinct taste. Try both and follow the one which u like.

Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Soaking Time: 1 hour

Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Serves: 4-5 Persons

Ingredients:

Yellow Split Moong Dal / Whole Green Moong Dal – 1 cup (see notes)

Rava / Semolina – 1 cup

Small onion / Shallots / Pearl onion – 3/4 cup, finely chopped

Green chilli – 2 nos, finely chopped

Ginger – 1 inch length, grated

Curry leaves – 2 strings, finely chopped

Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Asafoetida – a big pinch

Oil – 2 teaspoons + for making dosa

Salt – to taste

Method:

1) Soak moongdal and rava separately for an hour.

2) Meanwhile, chop onion, green chilli, ginger and curry leaves.

3) After an hour, drain the water from both. Reserve the water from rava. Grind moong dal to a smooth paste. If required, add only less quantity of water for grinding.

4) Transfer the ground moondal to a wide bowl. Add the drained rawa to the moongdal paste. Mix well. Now, slowly add water to this mixture and make the consistency like dosa batter.

5) Take a kadai or frying pan. Heat oil. When it is hot, add cumin seeds followed by asafoetida, chopped onion, green chilli, curry leaves and ginger. Saute till the onion becomes soft.

6) Add this sauteed ingredients to the batter. Add salt. Mix well.

7)  Heat the dosa pan/tawa and spread some oil on the surface of it. (Oil is not required in case of non-stick pan). When you sprinkle water on the pan it raises a typical sound and the water disappears immediately. Its the right time to, pour a ladle of dosa batter. While spreading out the batter, gently spread the batter from the center towards the end of the pan in an uniform circular motion.

8) Apply less than half a teaspoon of oil on to the corners of the dosa.

9) After a minute, flip to other side and allow it to cook.

10) Serve hot with kara chuney and Idly powder.

Notes:

1) If you don’t get time, instead of sauting the onion, directly add to the batter to make dosa.

2) If you are using whole green moong dal, soak it for 3-5 hours or over night.