Anand Mittal  
Let me attempt to teach you how to make an immensely popular Indian breakfast snack/bread.

It is slightly typical but if you allow me to coach you by email after your having tried it, I can assure you that you shall be able ot come up with perfect results. I pride in saying that I'm a good teacher- Chef Trainer, to be precise. :-)

Here goes-

Name of the dish - DOSA

Ingredients
300g Rice
Washed split black gram 150g
Fenugreek seeds 2g
Salt To taste
Groundnut oil 80 ml

Method:

1. Pick, wash and soak the lentils, rice and fenugreek seeds overnight.
2. Drain. Put in a blender, add salt, about 50 ml water and make a fine paste. (Not too thick, not too thin)
3. Allow the paste to ferment naturally at room temperature for 5 hours or till it doubles in size.
4. Warm a non stick fry pan. Put a ladle of the prepared batter right in the centre of the pan and spread it using the same ladle in concentric circles from the centre going outwards.
Normally, it is about a foot in diameter but you can make smaller pancakes. THey are very thin, but that will only come with practise. Be patient!
5. When the batter begins to set on the surface and some browning is visible under it, sprinkle oil all over it.
6. Put any filling of your choice and roll it into a cylinder.
7. Serve hot!



Note: Please share the outcome with me. This is my own recipe that's been tried a thousand times at least and needs no modification.
Believe it!!

Anand Mittal
Jun 25th 2007 22:56