APPAM DOSA

 INGREDIENTS

1. 
   Idly rice              4 cups 
   
2. Urad dhal           1/2 cup
3. Methi seeds        2 tsp
4. Coconut              1 cup
5. Cooked rice        1 cup
6. Rice flour           1 cup
7. Salt                     5 tsp
8. Baking soda       1/4 tsp
9. Oil                      for dosa frying

METHOD

• Wash rice, urad dhal, methi seeds together and soak for 4 hours.
• Add cooked rice while grinding.
• Grind rice for 10 minutes, then add coconut and grind  for another 10 minutes.
• Grind to a smooth paste, add rice flour, salt. Add 2 cups of water.
• Mix well and ferment whole night. In the morning add soda with a tsp of water, mix well.
• Heat an iron kadai, brush oil, pour ladleful batter in the middle.
• Wear cotton thick glouse to both hands and take out the pan.
• Rotate to form dosa and smear some oil around the dosa, close a lid.
• Roast on medium heat. You will hear a bubbling sound.
• Open the lid and take out the dosa.
• Serve with coconut milk, chutney, and kurma.

FOR COCONUT MILK

1. Coconut             1 whole
2. Sugar                 1 cup
3. Water                 4 cups
4. Cardamom         10

METHOD

• Scrape coconut, add water and grind.
• Extract the first milk and add sugar. mix well.
• Pound only the seeds of  cardamom.
• Add to the milk. Serve with dosa.
• Extracted coconut can be used for chutney, sambar, kurma.

FOR KURMA

INGREDIENTS

1. 
   Carrot                                   1
   
2. French beans                        10
3. Green peas                           handful
4. Tomato                                 2
5. Onion                                   1
6. Water                                    5 cups
7. Salt                                       2 tsp
8. Turmeric                              1/2 tsp
9. Chilly powder                      1 tsp

FOR GRINDING

1. Extracted coconut                1 cup
2. Fennel seeds                        3 tsp
3. Jeera                                    1 tsp
4. Cinnamon                             2"
5. Lavang                                 5
6. Cardamom                            2
7. Garlic                                   10 pods
8. Ginger                                 1"
9. Coriander seeds                  1 tbsp
10. Roasted gram                      3 tbsp
11. Mint leaves                        little
12. Coriander leaves                handful

FOR SEASONING

1. Oil                                   3 tbsps
2. Mustard seeds                 1/2 tsp
3. Bengal gram                   1 tsp
4. Urad dhal                        1/2 tsp
5. Hing                               1/4 tsp

METHOD

• Cut onion, vegetables, and tomatoes, grind masala to a smooth paste.
• Heat oil, splutter mustard seeds, fry bengal gram, urad and himg.
• Add onion and fry for a while, add tomatoes, vegetables and fry until tomatoes are mashed.
• Add masala paste and fry for a minute, sprinkle turmeric and chilly powder.
• Add water, salt and stir well, cook for one whistle.
• Serve with appam dosa.