Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Bread Dosa

Ingredients:
Bread - 4-5 slices (left over bread also is fine)(I used Brown bread)
1 cup Rice flour
1/2 cup Rava
Besan - 2 table spoons
Onion - 1 medium sized (chopped fine)
Chopped coriander - 2 table spoons
Green chillies - 2 (chopped)
Red chilli powder - 1 tea spoon
Salt to taste
oil to fry the dosa

For the tempering:
1 spoon oil
1 tea spoon mustard seeds
1 tea spoon urad dal
1 pinch of Hing
1 tea spoon chopped curry leaves

Method:
1. Soak bread slices in water for a few minutes and squeeze out extra water
2. Grind this bread with rice flour, rava and besan
3. Add salt and chilli powder
4. Add chopped onion, green chillies, coriander leaves and enough water to bring it to dosa consistency.
5. Heat one spoon oil and fry mustard seeds, when they crackle, add the urad dal, curry leaves and hing and when urad dal is browned, pour over the dosa batter.
6. Heat the tawa and pour the dosa fry both sides until golden brown on both sides.
7. Serve with Coconut chutney and vegetable kurma.

Variations:
1. Vegetables like finely shredded cabbage, green onions, cauliflower, carrots, capsicum etc can also be added to make vegetable dosa.
2. In addition to the green chillies, 1 tsp of grated or chopped ginger also can be added.
3. This dosa can be made plain instead of any vegetables too. Tastes very crispy without any vegetables.