RICE PANCAKES OR NEER DOSA WITH COCONUT AND JAGGERY FILLING, PORTHA POLE

Ingredients

2 Cups of Idli Rice, Wash and soak it for 8 hours or overnight

Half Scraped Coconut

200 grams and to taste scraped jaggery

1/2 tsp cardamom powder.

Method:

Grind the rice adding water and little salt. It should be of watery consistency. Make the mixture of Coconut, Jaggery and Cardamom Powder. (add scraped jaggery, and cardamom powder to scraped coconut and mix well)

Heat a Dosa Pan. Take a small piece on onion and prick with fork. Dip the onion in oil and apply to pan all round. Take a ladle of batter and pour onto the pan and turn the pan all round. Close the lid for a minute and then remove the fried pancake (the edges will start leaving the pan) and place it on a plate with the bottom side facing up.

Take about two to three spoons of the coconut and jaggery mixture and place it in a straight line about 1/3 way of the pancake. Close two sides of the pancake . Now start rolling the pancake from the second side to the fourth side to form an roll with the filling in the middle.

Similarly form the other pancake rolls.

CURRY LEAVES CHUTNEY

Ingredients

A heaped cup of Curry Leaves (washed well)

3/4 Cup Scraped Coconut or Desiccated Coconut

3 Tblsp of Chana Dhal or Dalia

2 Green Chillies

1 tsp Cumin Seeds

2 tbsp Lemon Juice

1 tsp Salt

2 tsp Oil

Tempering (Optional)

2 tsp Oil

1/4 tsp Urid Dhal

1/2 Mustard Seeds

few curry leaves

Method:

Heat Oil in a pan. Fry the washed curry leaves until crisp. Keep aside to cool completely.

Grind the curry leaves along with the other ingredients Cumin Seeds, Chana Dhal, Coconut, Green Chillies, Salt, Lemon Juice and little water to make a fine paste. The Curry Leaves Chutney is ready

If you want to temper the chutney.

Heat oil in a pan. When hot add the urid dhal. When slightly brown add the mustard seeds and when they splutter add the curry leaves. Fry till Curry Leaves loses its rawness. Pour this mixture over the ground chutney. The Curry Leaves Chutney is ready

Dosa with Rice Flour (No Soaking and Grinding)

Ingredients:

1.5 cups Rice Flour

¾ Cup Urid Dhal Flour (Black Gram Dhal)

1/8 cup Fenugreek Flour (Methi)

3 Cups water

Salt

Dosa Pan

Ghee (clarified butter) – Optional

Water for frying Dosa

Method:

Mix all the flours and water to form smooth batter. Not too thin or too thick. Keep it overnight (10 to 12 hours). Just before frying the dosa’s remove the required batter or all of it, add salt. Heat Dosa Pan. Sprinkle water to test the pan. Don’t apply oil to pan. Spread a ladle of batter and then little ghee on to dosa. Close for a minute. Check if dosa is ready (the sides will start coming off the pan). Remove. Have the dosa with white coconut chutney, green chutney, sambhar.