Thursday, March 17, 2011

Vella Dosai

Dosa is a well liked South Indian tiffin item. It has gained popularity all over the world. People experiment with the batter and filling and many many different kinds of dosas are seen today. Like Plain Dosa, Paper Dosa, Masala Dosa, Ghee Dosa, Rava Dosa etc etc. Of these Vella Dosai is one; though these have been made from time immemorial. This dosa is generally not available in restaurants.

Vella Dosai is yet another of my favorites. At my home mom used to prepare it very regularly though after marriage these have become really rare, thanks to their aversion to sweets. These sweet dosas are usually made on certain days of fasting like Sivarathri, Ekadasi, Shasti etc since they are made out of wheat flour. On the days of fasting, people generally avoid rice and items made out of rice. But it is not necessary that it has to be a day of fast to make these yummy sweet dosas. Generally, an uppu dosai (salt dosai – exact translation) is also made along with it. I’ll leave that for later.


Ingredients

1. Wheat Flour – 1 cup
2. Powdered Jaggery – ¾ cup to 1 cup (according to your taste)
3. Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp
4. Ghee for frying

Method

In a vessel, take about ½ a cup of water and add the powdered jaggery. Heat it till the jaggery dissolves completely. Strain to remove impurities. Now add this to the wheat flour and mix well without forming lumps. Add sufficient water and mix into a smooth Dosa batter. Add the Cardamom powder and mix well.
Now heat a tawa, pour a ladle full of batter and spread like regular dosai. Drizzle ½ tsp of ghee and let it cook. Flip over and cook on the other side also. Cook on low heat only as Jaggery can easily burn. Serve with a blob of homemade butter or a spoonful of ghee.


Sending this recipe to Cooking with Seeds guest hosted by Suma of Veggie Platter

12 comments:

Suma Gandlur said...

Thanks for sending over these yummy dosas. You reminded me my childhood. :)

Priya Suresh said...

Sweet dosa looks soooo delicious,truly inviting..

Shylaja said...

Looks so yummy and delicious. We used to make this with wheat and rice flour

Rajani said...

Well turned out sweet dosai.

Vishysblue said...

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Unknown said...

Hey,

Yummy and sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettt dosai...:)

Dr.Sameena@

http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com/

malavika said...

hey
i'm doing a research on palakkad food specialities, and would like ur help...i've already come accross ramserry idlis and wanted to know if u could help me out with the names os a few more! :)

Divya Sambasivam said...

Thanks a million for posting such lovely recipes. Gonna prepate this lip smacking dosai at the earliest!!!

Divya Sambasivam said...

Thanks a million for posting such lovely recipes. Gonna prepate this lip smacking dosai at the earliest!!!

Divya Sambasivam said...

Thanks a million for posting such lovely recipes. Gonna prepate this lip smacking dosai at the earliest!!!

Nobody said...

After marriage vellai dosai was a rarity, but today my husband wanted to taste it, it took us both back to our childhood.

Anonymous said...

Using wheat powder alone can at times make it difficult to spread smoothly. I add two to three tbl spoons of rice powder to one cup of wheat powder. This makes it crispier as well

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