MYSORE MASALA DOSA

Mysore masala dosa is prepared with the red chutney  and potato masala spread on it  and served hot with chutney and sambar.

It is almost same like the normal masala dosa but added chutney is the only difference.  

This mouth watering dosa, served hot with sambar and chutney is heavenly if you are a lover of South Indian breakfast.

Let us look at the recipe now:

Dosa batter:

2 cups regular rice

½ cup urad dal/skinned & split black gram

½ cup cooked rice or poha/flattened rice

¼ tsp methi seeds/fenugreek seeds

 salt as required

Potato filling:

2 large potatoes, boiled
2 onions  chopped 
1" ginger, chopped
few curry leaves
1 green chili, chopped
1 tsp black mustard seeds
½ tsp turmeric powder
a pinch of red chili powder
a pinch of asafoetida
½ tsp lemon juice
water
chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp oil
salt as required

ingredients for the red chutney:

2 tbsp roasted chana dal (pottukadalai)
4-5 garlic
2-4 dry red chilies, soaked in warm water for 30-40 mins- adjust as per your spice requirement.
1 tsp seedlees tamarind

1 big  onion, roughly chopped
salt as required
some water to grind the chutney

Method:

Soak the rice,  methi seeds for 4 to 5 hours. soak the urid dal separately.  In a wet grinder grind the rice.  then grind the urid dal by adding poha in it.  soak the poha also before grinding.  Mix both and allow to ferment for 5-5 hours.

Prepartion of filling:

Boil the potatoes and keep aside.  Peel and crumble them with hands.  Heat oil in a kadai.  add the mustard seeds when they splutter, add the chopped onions till soft.  add the ginger, garlic, green chilly, curry leaves and saute for few seconds.  now add the turmeric powder, red chilli powder and asafoetida. stir and add potatoes and mix well.  add  1/2 cup water, salt, cover and cook till water dries up. finally add the lemon juice, coriander leaves mix well and keep aside.

Red chutney:

Put the ingredients mentioned under the ingredients for red chutney and make a smooth paste by adding little water.

Now we come to the main job of preparing the dosa:

Heat a non stick tava, smear with  little oil.  if you put too much oil, then make a small uttappam type dosa first and then start making the mysore masala doa.

Spread one laddleful of batter and spread the dosa.  sprinkle some oil and wait for the dosa to cook.  when the base start getting  brown, sprad 1 to 2 tsp red chutney on top of the dosa.  Now place 2-3 tbsp potato masala on top of the chutney and spread that too.  drizzle some oil.  fold from one side to the center and then from the other side to the center.  press down and cut into three parts.  your mysore masala dosa is ready to serve.

How to serve:

Serve hot with chutney, sambar.

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