You know how you plan something in advance, have plans to execute it methodically but then something happens and the plan takes a 180 turn? Well, this is what happened to me last week. Here I was all geared up for my Dosa Month event, and had few dosa recipes in mind to try and post but then I got bitten by the FLU. So I had to deal with the usual high fever, body aches and chills and was restricted to bed/couch for almost 4 days. As expected I did not have the energy to move or walk let alone cook and post.
Anyway, it has been 3 days since I recovered and I have got most of my energy back. Hopefully I will be able to post few of the recipes I had in mind.
Here is a simple dosa made out of cornmeal, Corn Meal dosa. This is an instant dosa and so that means no grinding or fermenting is required. This tastes a whole lot like Rava Dosa with some after taste of corn.
Category: Instant No Soaking, Grinding or fermenting required.
Recipe Adapted from: Simply Spicy
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup rice flour
- 1 green chilli chopped finely
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal
- ¼ cup sooji/rava/semolina
- Turmeric (a pinch)
- 1-2 tsp chopped coriander leaves (optional)
- Salt to taste
Seasoning
- 1/4 tsp cumin seeds/ Jeera
- ¼ tsp mustard seeds
- 4-5 curry leaves chopped
- oil
Method:
- In a bowl mix together the cornmeal, turmeric, semolina, rice flour, salt, chopped green chilles and coriander leaves.
- Add water and make a smooth paste. The batter should be thin (unlike a regular dosa).
- Heat little oil in a pan, and then do a tadka/seasoning of add jeera, mustard seeds, curry leaves.
- Add this to the batter, stir and keep aside for 20-30 minutes.
- Heat a dosa tava/non-stick pan and grease it lightly.
- Mix the batter again well and add more water if needed.
- Take a ladle full of batter and pour starting from the center and then towards the edges. You will not be able to spread the batter like a regular dosa and also this dosa will not be round.
- Spread oil around the edges and through the holes. Cook until the bottom part gets lightly browned and then flip it over and cook on the other side. Spread little more oil.
- Fold the dosa and serve hot along with chutney.
Take care Supriya. I too have tried cornmeal dosa and it tastes so good. I don’t know if its your site or my computer, its taking a lot of time to load. Foodworld is also taking a lot of time. I think its your server.
Thanks Madhuram. I have noticed it too, sometimes my site both Redchillies and FoodWorld gets very slow. I will check with the provider. Hope you are doing well.
Nice roast, want to grab them from the screen..looks so yumm
Viral fever can incapacitate one like this. Take care. I like the idea of corn meal with other ingredients in the dosai. Sure to try this one soon.
Hope you get better soon….i haven’t ever tried cornmeal anything! The crips golden colour without fermentation and grinding looks excellent
Hope you feel well soon. Instant cornmeal dosas look delicious. I tried them once before, but never made them again. These are perfect for impromptu dinners, since I’m not much into plan ahead (unfortunately 🙁
hope u are completely ok now, the dosa looks grt !
Thank you all.
I have recovered and doing well now 🙂
Wow! Looks so crispy. Felt like grabbing a piece and munch it 🙂
thts a unique flavored dosa !! looks yummm !! happy cooking 🙂
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Supriya, I tried this one…..came out good though couldn’t make very thin or i should say didn’t wanted to make very thin as I opted out of makki ki roti & made these to accompany palak paneer….thanks for sharing….hope U r all well now…
Thanks Spice. I have completely receoved now and glad you were able to make this.
Hey this dosa turned out to be a super hit and got into the regular breakfast dosa here. No one found out the difference and enjoyed it like the regualr rava dosa!!:)
Thanks again for a great recipe.
Thanks so much for trying this, Harini-Jaya. Glad you liked it 🙂