Uppu Puli Dosa is all
time favorite of my family. Spicy batter is prepared using rice,
tamarind,jaggery,coconut and fresh roasted spices. Spicy n Flavourful
dosa can be prepared using this batter.To the same spicy batter vegetables like Ridge gourd, Potato, Onion, Cabbage, zucchini can be mixed and
healthy vegetable dosa can be made out of it too.
Fermentation is not
required for this recipe.Spicy batter can be
stored in refrigerator and has to be consumed within 5 days.Using this batter I
celebrate "Uppu Huli Dosa Week" at home by preparing one day
potato dosa, next day onion dosa ... goes on and on...
How/When to Serve
?
Enjoy as breakfast along
with grated jaggery and fresh butter on top.
Serve this as heavy
healthy evening snack for kids.
Serve potato spicy dosa /ridge gourd
spicy dosa /zucchini spicy dosa as a side dish along with hot rice,rasam and spoonful of coconut oil.
First let us look at how
to prepare the uppu huli dosa batter (spicy dosa batter) ?
Ingredients:
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
one medium lemon size - tamarind
3-4 tbsp grated jaggery
1/3 cup fresh grated
coconut
salt to taste
oil for dosa preparation
for roasting:
7-8 dry red chilly (adjust according to your spice level)
6 tsp coriander seeds
4 tsp urad dal
2 tsp channa dal/bengal
gram
1 tsp methi
seeds/fenugreek
1 tsp cumin seeds/jeera
1-2 tsp cooking oil
How to Prepare ?
- Wash and soak the rice for 1-2 hours.
- Using little oil, roast all the ingredients mentioned under "for roasting" till you get nice aroma.( Please don't burn the spices) one after another. Let it cool down completely.
- Drain the rice and transfer it into a mixie jar. Now add in all the roasted spices, tamarind, jaggery, salt, turmeric powder and coconut into the same jar. Using sufficient water grind everything into a smooth batter.( Consistency should be like pakoda batter, neither too thin nor too thick). Check for the salt again and adjust.
1) How to Prepare Uppu Huli Dosa /plain spicy dosa without veggies?
- Add water to the batter and get the consistency of normal dosa batter.
- Heat the dosa pan and grease with one tsp of oil.
- Once the pan is hot enough, pour a ladle full of batter in the center of the pan.Spread in a circular motion to form a dosa of circular shape.
- You can also make the batter very thin and pour like neer dosa.
2) How to Prepare Potato Spicy Dosa, Ridge Gourd Spicy Dosa ?
Tips /Alternative:
- You can use 2-3 table spoon of sambar powder instead of roasted spices while grinding as a shortcut.
- I have seen my aunt preparing mixed vegetable dosa too. You can do so by mixing grated carrot, grated cabbage,and fine chopped onion into the batter.
- You can add chopped methi leaves to the batter and can prepare methi leaves spicy dosa too.
- I have also seen friend of mine, grinds 1-2 onions along with other ingredients in the beginning it self while preparing the spicy batter.
- By mistake if you have added more water and the batter is too thin , then add in 2-3 tbsp of rice flour to make the batter thick.
- I usually use iorn dosa pan and its very good for health.
Thanks for going through my recipe , your feed back is always welcome :-).Kindly share the recipe with your friends and family if you like it.