Maida - Rava Dosa

There are a lot of ready mix available these days for preparing dosa varieties. We can make a lot of them at home itself. It would save money, serve more number of times and important of all, will keep you healthy, coz there is no added preservatives for home made stuff. Here we go, lets try out one version of these kind of dosa's.


This is one of my favorite of my mom's preparation. They taste excellent!

1. Maida - 2 cups
2. Rava - 1 cup
3. Rice Flour - 1/2 cup
4. Onion - 3 medium sized finely chopped.
5. Mustard - 1/2 tbsp
6. Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp
7. Urad dhal - 1/2 tbsp
8. Ginger - 1 tbsp finely chopped
9. Green chillies - 2 very finely chopped
10. Curry leaves - 10 to 15 very finely chopped
11. Coriander leaves - handful finely chopped (optional)
12. Salt to taste
13. Oil

Mix Maida, Rava and rice flour together in a bowl. Add salt to your taste. Add 4 to 5 cups of water and mix to form the batter. The batter should be of soup or juice consistency (so thin). Keep it aside for 15 to 20 mins.

In the meantime, heat oil in a pan, add mustard, cumin seeds and urad dhal and saute for half a minute. Add the green chillies, ginger and curry leaves and saute for another half a minute. Add the onions and stir for 2 mins. when the onions change color slightly add this to the batter and mix well. Add the coriander leaves and mix.

The dosa mix is ready. Heat the tava. You cannot spread the batter as you make regular dosa's. so just pour it in the outer circle area of the tava and it would automatically move inwards and make dosa with lots of small holes in it. Add oil and roast it and cook on both sides till they turn little brown.

Crispy, tasty, yummy dosa ready. Serve hot with onion chutney.

Try this out and I bet you would love it.

Bottle Gourd Dosa - Sorakkai dosai

Different varieties of Dosas following.... Here is another version of healthy dosa.

1. Bottle Gourd(Sorakkai) - 300 gms
2. Rice - 300 gms
3. Onion - 3 medium sized
4. coriander leaves a small bunch
5. Curry leaves - 5 to 6
6. Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp
7. sounf - 1 tbsp
8. Asafoetida - 1/2 tbsp
9. Red chilli - 3
10. Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup
11. Salt to taste
12. Oil

Peel the skin and cut the bottle gourd to small pieces with the seeds.
Soak the rice before 2 to 3 hours for preparation.
Grind the rice, red chilly, Asafoetida, sounf, cumin seeds together little coarsely.Pour it to a bowl. Now grind the bottle gourd also little coarsely and mix it with the grinded rice.

Add salt to your taste. Now, finely chop Onions,Coriander leaves and curry leaves and add to the mixture. Add the grated coconut for extra flavour.

Heat the tava. spread a little of the dough on the tava and spread it like dosa. reduce the flame to half. add oil and cook for about a min. now turn the dosa on the tava and let it cook for another minute. when the dosa turns brown on both sides remove from heat.

Serve hot with chutney of your like. This dosa also goes well with any version onion or tomato chutney.

Enjoy the new healthy dosa!