Pesarattu Dosa or Moong Dal Dosa is a popular breakfast recipe of Andhra Pradesh.
Ingredients:
1 cup green moong dal (soaked for 4 hours)
1/4 cup rice
coriander leaves
1 tbsp. cumin seeds
4-5 green chillies chopped
1 inch ginger
oil
salt to taste
Method:
- Soak moong dal and rice for 4-5 hours
- For the dosa batter, grind green chilies, cumin seeds, coriander leaves, ginger and moong dal, rice well into a coarse paste. Add water if required.
- Add salt and 1/2 tsp. oil to the paste. Mix the batter well.
- Add water to make the batter of a spreading consistency.
- Heat a flat non-stick pan and get it off the flame.
- Pour the batter with a spoon and spread it into a circle motion till you get a 5 inch diameter round thin crepe
- Get it back on the flame and cook it.
- Once the water dries out, brush some oil over the dosa. Cook till it is brown in colour and fold it over.
- Remove the dosa from the pan carefully making sure that it is cooked from everywhere.
_ serve immediately with any kind of chutney, sambar and upma
