Normally we used to make tomato dosai by preparing the batter with soaked rice, dhal and coconut. Soak the rice and dhal together and grind it with red chillies, salt, hing , cut tomatoes and dessicated coconut. But recently I saw an you tube channel. It was totally new method. It is just as follows. Instead of adding raw tomatoes in this method we are going to fry it in oil with the masala ingredients. Here is the new method of tomato dosa.
Ingredients Tomatoes 4 to 5cut into pieces.
A pinch of hing, One inch ginger without skin,
Red chillies according to your taste. I put 3 red chillies and one green
salt to taste, finely chopped coriander leaves and kadi paththa leaves
The told to add one teaspoon black pepper and one teaspoon cumin seeds. Actually I don;t like the taste of these in the dosa. But they added it so I also added them as a trial.
oil for fry. and to cook dosa
one cup Uppuma rava
one cup Rice flour and one table spoon wheat flour or urad dhal flour for binding.
finely chopped onions. I cook without onion but if you need you can add. It is according to your taste.
In a kadai pour cooking oil one table spoon, and fry the chillies and ginger. Put it aside. Then fry the black pepper and jeeragam, (cumin seeds) Put it aside. Now add the finely cut tomatoes and fry till it becomes soft. Let all the ingredients cool for some time. Then put them in a jar and grind into a fine paste.
Change the paste into a bowl. Now add one cup rava, one cup rice flour and wheat flour or urad dhal ka flour one table spoon. Add salt to taste. Mix them in the paste and add required quantitiy of water till the batter is ready for preparing dosa. It should be watery like rava dosa batter. Now add finely chopped coriander leaves and kadi paththa leaves. Put it aside for half an hour. You could add chopped onions also if needed.
Now put a tawa and heat it. Pour one or two teaspoon oil and spread the oil with a cooking brush or papper towel. Now take a ladle of batter and toss it like rava dosa on to the tawa. Pour one teaspoon of oil over the dosa and let it fry. Do not spread it like normal dosa with the base of the ladle. When it become crispy on one side turn it to the other side and pour some oil if needed. After it was crispy on both sides serve hot with coconut chutney or Pudina chutney.
Red chillies, green chilly and ginger
Hing, Pepper and cumin seeds
Tomatoes
Fried masala ingredients
