Aval Dosai

Ingredients :

• Raw rice - 4 cups
• Rice flakes [ aval ] - 1 1 / 2 cups
• Curds - 2 cups
• Salt - as required
• Cooking soda -1 / 2 tsp
• Oil - for frying

Method :

Wash and soak rice in water and aval in whipped curds. Grind both separately to a fine paste. Add more whipped curds for grinding if necessary. Add salt at the end, and mix both the batters together. Allow the dosa batter to ferment until next day morning. Then add cooking soda just before pouring dosas and mix well. Heat non-stick tawa. Pour a ladle full of batter in the centre and spread the dosa to medium thickness. Pour out little oil around the dosai. Close with a lid and cook on one side only. Serve hot with chutney or mixed vegetable kurma.