Karnataka Thuppa Dosa

Ingredients :

• Urad dal - 1 cup
• Maida or Plain white refined flour - 2 cups
• Rice flour - 1 tbsp
• Salt - 2 tsp

Method :

Soak Urad dal in the morning in twice the amount of water and leave aside. In the evening or after atleast 4 hours, grind the urad dal with 1 or 2 cups water to a smooth batter. You can use grinder or mixer to grind this. Grind the batter for extra 5 minutes than usual to make the batter very airy. Now transfer the batter to another vessel and cover and allow to ferment in warm place in the kitchen.

[ During winter, Option 1 : Take a cooker which will fit this vessel.Heat the cooker with some water for about 5 minutes.Then switch off the stove and then keep the vessel with the urda dal batter inside. Allow to stand overnight.

Option 2 : Switch on oven / mircowave for about 5 minutes with a cup of water, switch off and keep the vessel with the batter overnight inside, closing the door of the oven /microwave oven. Allow to stand overnight ].

Next morning, open the vessel with the batter, mix in the maida, rice flour and salt well into the urad dal batter. Consistency of the dough should be semi thick [ like idli batter or cake batter ].

Now take a griddle or tawa, allow to heat well with atleast 3-5 minutes, take a big laddle full of batter, put on the tawa as shown and make the dosa in round shapes [  like pancakes ]. Allow the top of the dosa to form bubbles [ as shown in image 1 ]. Now put ghee on all sides and smooth lightly [ as shown in image 2 ]. Cover for about 1 minute. Now turn the dosa on the opposite side and put 1 tsp ghee and again cover and cook for 1 minute.

Now you will get a golden crispy dosa or pancake. Serve with coconut chutney and shambar.