Brown Rice Dosa Recipe
A very simple recipe for preparing savory crepes using brown rice, cilantro and green chillies.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Brown Rice
- 1 Cup Par Boiled White Rice (Or You Can Use 2 Cups Of White Rice)
- ½ Cup Urad Daal
- 1 Teaspoon Each Toor Daal Channa Daal
- 1 Medium Size Bunch Finely Chopped Cilantro/Coriander
- 1 Tablespoon Ginger Grated (Or As Per Your Taste)
- 4 To 5 Green Chillies
- 2 Teaspoons Or As Per Your Taste) Salt
Instructions
- Wash the rice thrice and soak it along with the daals in warm water for at least 2-3 hours. Since it was my first time using brown rice, I didn't know what to expect, so soaked it around 9am itself.
- If using a blender/mixie: Drain the rice and daal. Reserve the water. Add ¼th of the rice, daal, coriander, chopped green chillies, ginger and grind it well. Once the cilantro and chillies are ground into a paste, add the remaining rice/daal and the reserved water as required. The batter should neither be very coarse nor very smooth. It should have the consistency of semolina/rava.
- If using a wet grinder: Switch on the machine. Let it run with the stone. Now pour the ¼-1/2 cup of the soaked water in the empty grinder, let it run for a minute. Now add ¼th of the rice/daal and other ingredients and let the machine run for 5 minutes. Later add the remaining rice/daal and water as required. Transfer the batter to a bowl and mix the salt thoroughly.
- Heat a non stick griddle. Once it's hot add a ladleful of batter to the griddle and spread it using the back of the ladle. Let it cook for 2-3 minutes. Spray it with a non stick cooking spray and turn the crepes and let the other side cook for another 2-3 minutes. Enjoy it with plain yogurt, idli podi or your favorite pickle.
Notes
- The original recipe uses 2 cups of white rice. I have tried that too and it was more soft than these brown rice dosas. The brown rice dosas had a chewy/rubber like texture. But we did like it. It's different and I will be making these again.
- We never eat spicy food, so I added only 3 chillies and it didn't have the trace of the chillies at all. That's why I have listed 4-5 chillies in the ingredients. We ate them with idli podi, which was a superb combination.
- Soak the rice and daals in the morning before leaving for office, come home in the evening, grind the batter and have these delicious dosas for dinner. Or else you can soak it overnight, grind it in the morning and start your day with this healthy and filling breakfast.
