BOTTLEGOURD DOSA

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Hi All,

BOTTLEGOURD DOSA! If you see my earlier post , you will know how important is dosa batter in my home , without dosa batter Iam struck 😓

So I always make varieties of dosa batter in home and this bottlegourd is one of the healthy dosa which I make often.You can make dosa with few vegetables and I will try to share those recipes too asap.

Last week I saw a small piece of bottlegourd was leftover in refrigerator and somewhat I felt very bored to make anything out of it , so I thought of feeding them to my family 😊😊😊 and made this dosa batter .My family will eat anything in form of dosa 😍

Healthy , yet yummy bottlegourd recipe is below,

INGREDIENTS :

Raw Rice – 2 cups.

Urad dal – 1/4 cup.

Bottlegourd – 1 1/2 cup ( chopped).

Red chillies – 4 nos.

Asafoetida – 1/8 tsp.

Curry leaves – a sprig.

Ginger – 1” piece – 1 no.

Cumin – 1 tsp.

Salt – as required.

Ghee / oil – 1 tsp.

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METHOD :

1. Wash and rinse rice,urad dal well and soak in water for 4 hours or more.
   
2. Scrap the skin of bottlegourd and remove the seeds,chop them to small pieces.
   
   
3. Grind the chopped bottlegourd to fine puree.
   
4. Grind red chillies , curry leaves , ginger , asafoetida , cumin to fine paste with little water.
   
   
5. Using blender or grinder grind soaked rice and urad dal together with enough water to fine paste.
6. When rice and dal grind to fine paste , finally add bottlegourd puree , ground chillies paste(step 4) to rice mixture and grind once for even mixing.
   
7. Add salt , mix well and let the batter ferment for 5 hours or overnight.
   
8. Heat dosa tawa , spread 2 drops of ghee evenly on tawa.
9. Pour a ladle full of dosa batter on tawa and using your ladle spread the batter evenly to form a thin circle.
   
10. Drizzle few drops of oil over the boiling dosa and let the dosa boil in medium flame till brown.
11. Using spatula flip the dosa to next side and boil for 2 more mins.
    
12. Remove from flame and serve hot with your favorite side dish .Onion chutney went great with this dosa , you can try with peanut chutney , mint chutney , garlic chutney too.
    

NOTES :

1. This batter does not require fermentation , you can make dosa soon after grinding .But as I never like raw smell of batter I always ferment and use.In case you are making dosa with non-fermented batter ,make thick dosas like adai with little chopped onions garnished on top.
2. Raw rice can be replaced with idli rice too.
   
   HAPPY COOKING!!