Cuisine: South Indian
Category: Breakfast
Prep: 480 min
Cook: 20 min
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Hard
🌿 Vegetarian
Thin crispy rice-lentil crepe filled with spiced potato masala — the iconic South Indian breakfast.
Ingredients
- For batter: 2 cups rice, 1/2 cup urad dal, 1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds — soaked, fermented overnight
- For filling: 4 potatoes boiled, 1 onion, 1 tsp mustard seeds, curry leaves, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 2 green chillies
- Oil or ghee for cooking
Method
- Grind soaked rice and dal to smooth batter. Ferment overnight.
- For filling: heat oil, add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
- Add sliced onion, green chillies and turmeric.
- Mash in boiled potatoes and salt. Mix well.
- Heat a flat griddle. Pour a ladle of batter and spread in thin circles.
- Drizzle oil on edges. Cook until crisp and golden.
- Place potato filling on one side and fold the dosa.
- Serve with coconut chutney and sambar.