SPICY AKKI - KAI DOSAE (RICE-COCONUT)

This is a recipe I learnt from a friend.  This is a very simple and very tasty snack. You can say it has all-in-one taste,  in the sense that it has all the required  tastes... sweet, sour, salt and spicy.  And hence, can be had without any accompaniments. This is also an instant dosae except that the rice and avalakki is to be soaked for about two hours.

You need to take:

Rice (ordinary)                                         1 cup
Avalakki/poha/beaten rice                       1/2 cup
Grated coconut                                        1/2 cup
Water                                                       2-3 cups
Cumin                                                      1 teaspoon
Dhania seeds                                          1-2 teaspoons
Tamarind paste                                        1 teaspoon (thick)
Jaggery powder                                       2 teaspoons
Salt                                                          1 teaspoon
Red chillies                                              2-3 (if byaDagi) and 1-2 (if Guntur)
Raw green menthya or
 palak or dhania                                       1 cup chopped (optional)

Procedure:

Soak rice and avalakki for about 2 hours. Drain water and grind together to a smooth paste all the ingredients except the greens. While grinding add water as per requirement.  Add chopped greens. The batter for this dosae is a bit thinner than the usual dosae batter.

Heat tava. Grease it and pour half cup of the batter and spread it to a round shape. Put half a teaspoon of oil round the dosae. When done, reverse and add half tea spoon more of oil. Remove when done and serve hot and eat hot :)

These dosaes are quite thin and you can make about 8 dosaes from this quauntity of batter.

GODHI/WHEAT FLOUR DOSAE

This is one of the simplest dosaes, an idea got from a young friend. This is instant and you can prepare whenever you think of since you have all the ingredients ready on you kitchen shelves for sure.  If you have no patience to roll chapathis, you can spread the batter and make dosaes!  You can include this in your menu for breakfast/evening snack/dinner !

You take:

Wheat flour                                       1 cup
Milk                                                   1 cup
Salt                                                   1/2 teaspoon
Ginger grated                                    1 teaspoon
Green chili                                         1 or 2 finely chopped
onion                                                  1/2 medium, finely chopped
Coriander 
       or                                                1 tablespoon chopped
Kasoori methi                                    1 tablespoon
Tamarind paste thick                         1/2 teaspoon
Cumin                                                1/4 teaspoon
Oil                                                       For roasting

procedure:

Take wheat flour in a bowl and add milk and whisk it till you get a dosae batter consistency. Add salt. Add all other ingredients and mix well. And it is ready to be spread on the tava! Spread one teaspoon oil on the tava, spread the batter and shallow fry on both sides just as you do for other dosaes.  Golden brown, thin, crisp dosae is ready ! You can have it hot with chatni pudi or any chatni, or without any of these.

A Note: You can mix just wheat flour, milk and a pinch of salt and make a plain dosae and have it with honey too.

This quantity will yield 4-5 dosaes.