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Serving size: 4
Ingredients
Ingredients for the dosa batter:
- 2 cups regular rice
- ½ cup urad dal/skinned & split black gram
- ½ cup cooked rice or poha/flattened rice
- ¼ tsp methi seeds/fenugreek seeds
- rock salt as required
- water as required for grinding the batter
Ingredients for the potato palya/filling:
- 2 large potatoes, boiled
- ¾ cup chopped onions
- 1 inch ginger, chopped
- 1 or 2 garlic (optional)
- 12-15 curry leaves
- 1 green chili, chopped
- ½ or ⅔ tsp black mustard seeds
- ½ or ⅔ tsp turmeric powder
- a pinch of red chili powder
- a pinch of asafoetida
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- ¼ or ½ cup water
- 1 or 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
- 1 tbsp oil
- salt as required
Ingredients for the red chutney:
- 2 tbsp roasted chana dal
- 4-5 garlic
- 2-4 dry red chilies, soaked in warm water for 30-40 mins- adjust as per your taste preferences and depending on the type of chilies. for a hotter version add 3 to 4 dry red chilies.
- 1 tsp seedlees tamarind
- ¼ cup onion, roughly chopped
- salt as required
- some water to grind the chutney
Instructions
Preparing the dosa batter:
- pick and rinse the rice and urad dal in water for 3-4 times.
- soak the rice, urad dal and methi seeds in a large bowl in enough water for 4-5 hours.
- in a wet grinder, grind the rice, urad dal, methi seeds and cooked rice or poha with enough water.
- grind till you get a fluffy and smooth consistency of the batter.
- take the dosa batter in a large bowl and mix salt.
- cover the bowl loosely and let the batter ferment for 7-9 hours.
Preparing the potato palya/filling:
- first boil the potatoes in a steamer or pressure cooker, till they are fully cooked.
- peel and either just crumble them with your hands or chop them.
- heat oil in a pan or kadai.
- first fry the mustard seeds till they splutter.
- now add the chopped onions and saute till they become soft.
- add the ginger, garlic, green chilies, curry leaves and saute for some 20-30 seconds.
- now add the turmeric powder, red chili powder and asafoetida.
- stir for 2-3 seconds and add the potatoes.
- stir and add water plus salt.
- cover and simmer the potatoes till the water dries up.
- lastly add the lemon juice and stir well.
- add coriander leaves and mix well with the potatoes.
- keep the potato palya aside.
Preparing the red chutney:
- take all the ingredients in a small blender or chutney grinder.
- add very little water and grind to a smooth paste.
- keep aside.
Preparing the mysore masala dosa:
- on a tava or a flat frying pan spread 1 or 2 tsp oil. if using non stick pan, then don’t spread oil. you won’t be able to spread the dosa batter then.
- take a medium sized ladle or a big spoon and with circular motions spread the dosa from the center towards the edges on the pan.
- sprinkle some drops of oil from the top.
- cover the dosa with a lid.
- let the base get browned and the top side get cooked completely.
- spread 1 or 2 tsp of the red chili chutney on top of the dosa.
- place 2-3 tbsp of the potato stir fry on top of the dosa and spread lightly.
- fold and serve the dosa hot with coconut chutney and sambar.