One of my favourite dosas is Rava Dosa -- crispy, fluffy, delicious. Thin crepe for breakfast.
I love dosas for breakfast.
Apart from the regular dosa, I make besan chilla or chickpea flour crepe, moong dal dosa, made with soaked and ground lentils and millet dosas too.
These are quick and easy to make. This one needs no fermentation too. Perfect as a vegan snack or breakfast.
You may also like: Medu Vada, Soft Idli Recipe, Lauki Kofta, aloo tikki, tandoori mushrooms.
Step-by-step Pictures
Makes about 8 dosas
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Recipe:
Mix 1 cup rava or semolina, 1 cup rice flour and ½ cup refined or all-purpose flour or maida together along with salt and cumin seeds.
Now chop your onion, green chillies, coriander, curry leaves, ginger and dill if you have it.
You can use a hand chopped like I do. This nifty hand chopper works really well and I have been using it for 5 years now.
Add about 3 cups water to make a runny batter. Keep it aside for 10 minutes.
Add the chopped veggies to the batter and mix.
Add in the roasted chana dal as well.
The mix will get thicker after keeping for 10 minutes.
Add some more water to make it of a runny consistency like coconut milk.
Now heat a tava (flat griddle or skillet generally round) till hot.
Put a few drops of oil and spread evenly.
Take the runny batter in a ladle and start spreading the batter from the outer surface of the tava.
Tilt the pan to make the batter spread.
Now pour in some more in the middle and spread it out similarly till the entire tava is covered by the batter.
You will see large bubbles form immediately.
Let it cook for a couple of minutes till crispy golden brown.
Now flip and cook some more.
If you want to add some more oil after flipping. Your rava dosa is ready to be eaten. It is crispy and delicious.
Serve it with a chutney or a potato sagu (a thin vegetable curry made with potatoes, tomatoes, ground coconut and spices).
Today I served it with a tangy and spicy green tomato chutney that is super simple to make and tasty too.
Hope you liked this instant rava dosa recipe that you can make in under 15 minutes.
It tastes really good in lunchbox as well.
Here's the recipe card:
Crispy Instant Rava Dosa Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup rava also known as semolina or coarsely ground wheat
- 1 cup rice flour
- ½ cup maida refined wheat flour
- ½ tsp. cumin seeds
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 1-2 green chillies finely chopped
- 1 tbsp. cilantro finely chopped
- 1 sprig curry leaves finely chopped
- 1 tsp. ginger finely chopped
- 1 tbsp. dill finely chopped optional
- 1 tbsp. roasted chana dal split bengal gram
Instructions
- Mix the rava, rice flour and maida together along with salt and cumin seeds. Add about 3 cups water to make a runny batter. Keep it aside for 5 minutes.
- Now chop onion, green chillies, coriander, curry leaves, ginger and dill if you have it. I use my Prestige hand chopper to expedite this process.
- Add all these to the batter and mix. Add in the roasted chana dal as well.
- The mix will get thicker after keeping for 10. Add some more water to make it of a runny consistency like coconut milk.
- Now heat a tava (flat griddle or skillet generally round) till hot. Put a few drops of oil and spread evenly. Take the runny batter in a ladle and start spreading the batter from the outer surface of the tava. Tilt the pan to make the batter spread. Now pour in some more in the middle and spread it out similarly till the entire tava is covered by the batter. You will see large bubbles form immediately.
- Let it cook for a couple of minutes till crispy golden brown. Now flip and cook some more. If you want to, add some more oil after flipping. Your rava dosa is ready to be eaten.
- It is crispy and delicious. Serve it with a chutney or a potato sagu (a thin vegetable curry made with potatoes, tomatoes, ground coconut and spices) as it is popularly done in the darshinis here.
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Notes
- This recipe needs no fermentation hence you can quickly make your rava dosa if you have all the ingredients at home.
- This instant rava dosa is as delicious as you get in restaurants.
- I have served it with a potato curry which is tasty and goes really well with the dosas.
- You can omit onion if you don't like it but the crispy bits really do add to the flavour.
- Chop everything finely before adding to the batter.
- You can store this batter in the fridge for a day but don't add onion and other fresh spices if you want to store.
Nutrition
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Rajlakshmi says
Long time since I have had a proper dosa... this looks yummy 😀 Thanks for the recipe.
catchats says
Wow, that sounds so good. My mouth was watering just reading about it. I could practically smell it, too. YUM! I love Indian food. Now I'm craving some.
Mithila Menezes @fabulus1710 says
Three cheers for this wonderful recipe! Rava dosa is one of the few dishes I can manage to eat without wincing in pain every time I bite a morselful! 😀
Rachna says
Thanks, Mithila. It is easy peesy. Hope you try it or share it with your mom. 🙂
Lata Sunil says
Trying out this one today .. thanks 🙂
Rachna says
Hope you like it!
Lata Sunil says
Rachna, it was a hit. We had it yesterday evening and today morning. I had to prepare more batter to meet the demand. Thank you for this easy recipe.
Rachna says
I am so happy to hear that. Same in my home. It is so simple and tasty. We've been having a lot of rava dosa in the house lately. 😀
Shilpa Garg says
Yummmm....Feel like having it now.
Have never tried this batter. I like it that it can be prepared in 15 minutes! definitely trying it out! Thanks for sharing a wonderful recipe, Rachna!
Rachna says
Oh you will love it. It is just so simple and tasty.
uk8971 says
Wow..:)
Tempting...
Chaicy Style A Pastiche says
I love Rava Dosa 'coz it's the quickest batter to prepare, and you can just get up and keep it ready 🙂
xoxo - Chaicy - StyleAPastiche. com
Sapana says
Looks delicious. I love Rava dosa, crispy and light! Thanks for recipe.
Sabyasachi Patra says
Mouth watering. Good to see that despite two bratty boys you find time to cook. 🙂
dNambiar says
Those are ingredients I already have.
I'm going to be coming by, again -- very soon to say 'Thank you.' 😉