Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 5
Main Ingredients: oats semolina
Ingredients
- Oats - 1 cup of dry roasted, cooled and ground oats (I used quick cooking oats)
- Semolina - 1 1/4 cups (sooji)
- Rice flour - 3/4 cup
- Maida - 1/4 cup (all purpose flour)
- Salt to taste
- Green chilies - 2, finely chopped
- Ginger - 1 tsp, grated
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig, tear (optional)
- Coriander leaves - 2 tbsps chopped (optional)
- Buttermilk - 1/2 cup (sour preferably)
- Water as required (approx 6 cups)
- Oil as required
- Mix all the above ingredients except oil and let the oats rava dosa batter sit for half an hour to an hour. It might thicken after a while as rava absorbs the water.
- At the time of making dosas, add more water such that it is of pouring consistency (like thick buttermilk).
- Pre-heat an iron tawa on high for a minute. Do the water test (sprinkle few drops of water over the hot tawa such that it sizzles) and reduce heat to low.
- Pour a ladle full of dosa batter from the outward base of the tawa in a circular motion. Fill the gap in the middle with dosa batter. Don’t drop batter like a thick lump but pour all over, evenly, filling the gaps.
- Drizzle 1-2 tsps of oil along the edge of the dosa and the gaps in the middle.
- Increase heat to medium flame and let the dosa cook for around 2 mts. At this point increase flame to high and let the dosa roast for a little less than a minute or so. If you want a slightly softer dosa, turn off heat after half a minute or so.
- Serve warm with chutney of your choice.
- Dry roast the oats on low to medium flame for 5-6 minutes, cool and grind to a fine powder.
- Prepare the batter at least an hour or half an hour before you want to eat the dosa.
- The batter should not be thick but of pouring consistency like a thick buttermilk consistency.
- If you do not have buttermilk on hand, use only water. Sour buttermilk gives a nice flavor to the dosa.
- An iron tava works best for this type of dosa.
- You can add grated coconut or carrot and broken cashewnut for variation.