Amma's special masala dosai

Ingredients for dosai:
Idly rice : 4 cup
Tuvaram paruppu : 1 cup
Vendhayam : 2 sp

Method:
1. Soak the ingredients for 4 to 5 hours
2. Grind all the ingredients in a grinder until smooth
3. Let this batter ferment for 6 to 8 hours
4. Make dosas with this batter and spread potato masal on top of this dosa, covering the complete surface area of the dosa. Add oil and then close it with a lid.
5. Once the dosa is cooked, just flip half dosa on top of the other half and it is now ready to be served.

Irattai Dosai

Here's one of my Amma's special. I have never tried it though, you will know the reason after reading the procedure :))

Ingredients:
1. Raw rice - 2 cup
2. methi seeds(vendhayam) - 2 spoon
3. salt - 3/4 spoon
4. water - 4 cups

Method:

Soak methi seeds for 4 hours
Soak raw rice for 1 hour, then drain the water.
After 10 minutes, grind the rice to a nice powder.
Sieve the powder.
Rava sized left over should be kept separately.
Boil 4 cups of water in a pan.
Gradually add the rava sized rice powder to this without forming any clumps(could take 10 to 15 minutes). This should come to kanji consistency.
After 1 or 2 hours, when it cools down, mix the sieved (finely powdered) flour and keep it aside.
After 6 or 9 hours it will get to Dosai maavu consistency.
Make one pancake sized (1/2 centimeter thick) dosa. This should be cooked for 5 to 7 minutes with a lid over it.
When it is cooked 3/4th, remove it from the pan.
Make another pancake sized dosa. As soon as pouring the batter on the pan for this 2nd dosa, put the first one on top of it and close this with a lid. Let it cook well for another 5 minutes.

Serve it with coconut chutny or well powdered sugar with ghee. This dosai is also called double-decker dosai!!

Now..if you succeed in making this, let me know. I should interview you and add the comments to my blog!! Hats off to you!!!

Tomato dosai

Amma's recipe...

Ingredients:
Rice(pacharisi) - 1 cup
Boiled rice(puzhungal) - 1 cup
Vendhayam - 1 spoon
Urad dal - 3 spoonful
Tomatoes - 4
Green chillies - 5
Satl to taste

Method:
Soak the rice, boiled rice, vendhayam and urad dal for 2 hours. Then grind this in wet grinder. When it is half ground, add tomatoes and continue grinding. At the end, add the chillies and salt and grind for a minute. Batter for making tomato dosai is now ready. Make dosais and serve with coconut/coriander chutney or podi(paruppu podi or kaarap podi)