Poha Dosa Recipe | Aval Dosai | Instant Atukula Dosa Recipe

• Idli Rice – 2 cups
• Thick Poha/Aval – 1 cup
• Methi seeds – 1/2 tsp
• Butter milk – 4.5 cups ( use 1 cup sour curd)
• Salt – as needed
• Cooking soda / baking soda – 1/4 tsp ( optional, I din’t add)

• Wash the Poha and rice together for 3 times. Whisk 1 cup of sour curd adding 4 cups of water. Soak the rice+poha in buttermilk for 3-4 hours. Add 1/2 cup of more water if Poha absorbs all the buttermilk.( I soaked the rice & aval at 9am in the morning, ground the batter at 1pm in the afternoon and made dosa at 7 pm. So I did not add cooking soda)

• Grind the rice and poha using the soaked buttermilk. Add little water only if necessary during grinding. Add the required salt and make a smooth batter. Make sure you grind the batter thick because the batter will become watery when you make the dosa.

• Cover the batter and keep it aside for 5-7 hours. If you wish, you can make the dosa immediately adding 1/4 tsp of cooking soda. If you want to make it without cooking soda, ferment the batter for few hours.  If you rest the batter,  it will become sour and rise a bit as well.

• Heat a dosa pan and pour a ladleful of batter. Make it thick like uthappam. Drizzle little oil around the dosa and cover the dosa pan with a lid.
• Cook in medium flame till the top of dosa cooks well with small holes here and there. No need to flip the dosa. Remove the dosa in a plate and enjoy with tomato chutney. I feel It tastes the best with tomato chutney more than coconut chutney.Its your choice finally.

  

• Enjoy this soft dosa for breakfast & dinner

NOTE : If you want to make this dosa for breakfast, soak the rice+aval in buttermilk overnight. The next morning, grind the batter. Add cooking soda,mix well and make dosa immediately.

• Batter will become sour quickly as it is Summer now. During winter season, its better to soak the rice+aval in sour buttermilk overnight and then grind the batter. It helps to get soft dosa with mild sour taste.
• Adding cooking soda is optional. If the batter tastes and smells sour, you don’t have to add cooking soda. But holes will be less. But If you want to see more holes in the dosa, you can add soda.
• This dosa batter can be stored in refrigerator and use it later. But softness will be slightly reduced.