When my friend Suja of Kitchen Corner Try It asked me to do a guest post for her, I immediately said yes. Blogging has brought me a few, but great friends and she is one of them; she started her blog roughly six month after I started. She never fails to stop by whenever I post and if I need any help I can ask her. She will not say no to me. She has cute little boy who just started pre-school. She is from Kerala, my home state in India, and is an excellent cook, great blogger, great mom and friend.
Since she knows that I am busy and crazy with two kids, she gave me freedom to choose recipe. I choose this recipe as it is close to my heart. My mom used to make it very often. She makes regular dosa (our south Indian crepe), Adai (rice and mixed lentil crepe) and Kalikanji dosa. It is one of the traditional Tamil Brahmin cuisines. She used to makes it once a week, when she ran out of batter for regular dosa. Both I and my sister usually would have it with sugar. My father would choose some spicy chutney /pickle or curry. I was planning to make this for long time; however I had only vague memories about this recipe.
I told my father during a phone conversation that I am missing kalikanji dosa which amma used to make it. I don’t how to make them. Then he gave me the recipe. I never learned any cooking from my mom, and I got interested in cooking only after staying alone. Meaning running out tasty food option? Yes I did that.
This recipe is made only with rice flour and coconut and salt, one step in the cooking process make its really soft crepe. You don’t need any overnight fermentation like dosa, only need is to soak the rice for about 3 hours grind it into smooth batter and set aside a portion of the batter and then cook the batter to form porridge and add it to the batter. Make pancakes as soon you need it.
It’s yummy and you only need a spicy side dish to dig in. Try it and it won’t disappoint you.
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Here goes the Recipe
Ingredients
2 cup raw rice
2 cup water + extra water for soaking
½ teaspoon salt
¾ cup grated coconut (fresh or frozen, don’t use desiccated one)
2- 3 tablespoon of oil
How I made
Soak the rice for about 3 hours and set aside
Wash and grind the rice with½ cup water in grinder or blender. After grinding rice set aside ¼ cup of rice batter and add coconut and grind once again to combine everything well.
In a small sauce pan heat ¼ cup rice batter you set aside with ¾ cup water for about 2 minutes with constant whisk to prevent forming clumps. Batter should be cooked and have nice shiny white / transparent in color.
Add this cooked batter to remaining rice –coconut batter, add salt and ½ cup water to form a loose crepe or pancake like consistency.
Heat favorite girdle or skillet and brush with oil and pour ¼ cup of batter and spread it in a circular motion to form a 9 inch circle. Add few drops of oil around the side of circle.
Cook for 30 seconds on one side and flip the other side and cook for another 30 seconds. Once it is done it have small brown spots. Mainly white in color.
Enjoy with any spicy curry. They are soft and delicious.
Preparation time: 3 hour soaking time+ 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Yield: 10
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
latha says
My mom used to make it,but without adding coconut.it taste yum.i miss my mom .she is no more.thanks 4 the receipe. Latha
Archana Potdar says
looks great. hoping over
Swasthi says
Read it in suja's blog, thanks for sharing.
suhaina aji says
I saw the recipe in Sujas blog. Very nice guest post Swathi.Nice clicks as always.
Julie says
Delicious recipe dear,authentic & yummy ,Congrats dear:)
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Sanoli Ghosh says
A must try recipe dear. Wonderfully made this dosa. Just seen the whole recipe in Suja's space.
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Srimathi says
Its a great recipe Swathi. Never heard of this dosai, so I will surely try it.
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
Is this similar to the dosa made with the just grinded batter?
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Nivedhanams Sowmya says
Is this like dosa from the batter that is just grinded?
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Balvinder Ubi says
I do make something similar but add yogurt to it. Will try yours by adding coconut.Thanks for sharing this.
Priya says
Just your guest post at Suja's space, well done Swathi..Kudos to both of you.
Guru Uru says
This looks divine, what am incredible feast 🙂
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PT says
looks awesome..
Jemini says
delicious dosa and very nice side dishes...
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Premalatha Aravindhan says
wow inviting recipe dear,loved this soft and delicious dosa...
srividhya Ravikumar says
very new dosa for me swathi...yummy...
Ramya says
My mom makes this coconut raw rice dosa:-) Used to love it with podi! Lovely dosas
divya says
Mouth watering recipe...looks so delicious yummy
Suja Manoj says
Thanks Swathi for this wonderful post,really appreciate you willingness to do a guest post for me,its is an honor to have your post ,recipe is fantastic dear, can't wait to try this 🙂
Treatntrick Treat and Trick says
Looks awesome with delicious side dishes!
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says
nice one akka... yummy...
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