Tomato Dosa Recipe | Thakkali Dosai Recipe
Tomato Dosa is one of the easy, quick and tasty dosa. The batter is made with raw rice, tomato and other spices. The fermentation of batter is not needed, the tanginess of the tomato itself is enough for the batter. Its kind of instant dosa though there is soaking process of 2 -3 hours involved. It is so scrumptious that you could start preferring this than the normal dosa. Tomato Dosa is healthy as it has less calories than the normal dosa. The texture and flavor increases our appetite and make us to long for more dosas. I have given the recipe for this dosa using raw rice. But we can also use store bought rice flavour which makes this very instant.
We can use raw rice or parboiled rice. Only rice itself is enough but Poha/aval gives a nice soft texture to the dosa. Also adding spices like cumin, red chilli powder along with coriander leaves give much more wonderful flavor to the dosa. This Thakkali Dosa tastes much yummier with Coconut Chutney, Idli Podi or Sambar.
If you like this Tomato dosa, you can also try other Dosa Recipes
- Rava Dosa – Rava Dosa is a popular South Indian Dosa Variety made with the Sooji batter and spices. This is very aromatic and crisp, and its quite popular in the restaurants. This crispy, tasty dosa can be made easily in the home. The best part of making this dosa is that no grinding, fermentation rqeuired and it’s instant.
- Samba Godhumai Rava Dosai – Broken Wheat Dosa, an instant dosa variety made with healthy Broken wheat/ Dalia / Godhumai Rava. The method of making this instant dosa is much similar to Rava (Sooji) Dosa.
- Oats Dosa – We can make instant, crispy and yummy dosa with Oats. As it’s name suggest it doesn’t require grinding, fermentation of batterI. Instant Oats Dosa is quick, easy and tasty to make. A perfect breakfast for a balanced diet.
Recipe Card to make Tomato Dosa
Tomato Dosa | Thakkali Dosa
Equipments Needed
- Mixer Grinder
- Dosa Pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup Parboiled Rice (Puzhungal Rice)
- ¼ cup Poha (Aval / Flattened Rice)
- 3 big Tomato or 4 Small
- ½ tsp Cumin Powder
- ½ tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1 tsp Salt adjust to your taste
- ¼ cup Coriander Leaves
- ¼ cup Sesame oil For Cooking Dosa
For Tempering
- 1 tsp Oil
- ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
- ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
- 2 tsp Split Urad Dal
- 1 sprig Curry Leaves
Instructions
Soaking Rice
- Rinse the parboiled rice and Poha in water and soak it in water for 3 hours.
Preparing Batter
- After 3 hours, drain the water and add the rice to the mixer along with roughly chopped tomatoes. Grind the rice and tomatoes to a nice and smooth batter. Take the ground batter to a vessel and add cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt and mix well
Tempering Process
- In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add cumin seeds, split urid dal and saute till the dal turns to golden brown color. Add few curry leaves and remove from flame. Add the seasoned ingredients to the batter and finally add chopped coriander leaves
Cooking Dosa
- Heat a tawa, and when the tawa is hot, add a ladle of tomato dosa batter and spread it to a thin dosa. Add very little oil and keep the flame in low and allow the dosa to cook on one side. Then flip it to other side and allow to cook. When the dosa is cooked and becomes little crispy, remove from tawa. Repeat this step for the rest of the batter
Serving Time!
- The yummy Tomato Dosa (Thakkali Dosai) is now ready to serve with chutney or sambar
Video
Notes
- We can also add chopped onions in the batter.
- We can also add hing/asafoetida, cumin seeds to flavor up the dosa
- Make the dosa very thin in consistency so the dosa will be soft.
Nutritional Info
Instructions with step by step pictures :
- Rinse the raw rice in water and soak it in water for 3 hours. After 3 hours, drain the water and add the rice to the mixer along with roughly chopped tomatoes
- Grind the rice and tomatoes to a nice and smooth batter. Take the ground batter to a vessel and add cumin powder, red chilli powder and salt and mix well
- In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds starts to sputter, add cumin seeds, split urid dal and saute till the dal turns to golden brown color. Add few curry leaves and remove from flame. Add the seasoned ingredients to the batter and finally add chopped coriander leaves
- Heat a tawa, and when the tawa is hot, add a ladle of tomato dosa batter and spread it to a thin dosa. Add very little oil and keep the flame in low and allow the dosa to cook on one side. Then flip it to other side and allow to cook. When the dosa is cooked and becomes little crispy, remove from tawa. Repeat this step for the rest of the batter
- The yummy Tomato Dosa (Thakkali Dosai) is now ready to serve with chutney or sambar
Tomato Dosa Recipe | Thakkali Dosai Recipe |
Can I use brown rice fr dosa
I have personally not tried with brown rice but it should work. Even millets will work instead of rice.
I have tried the same recipe from another website. But it ended up in a huge disaster to my dinner plans, kitchen and quality of dosa.
Thank you for this dosa! Came out very very well.. my normally-2 dosa-eating daughter ended up eating 3 and half dosa. That itself is a feedback for this recipe.
Thanks once again!
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Very tasty tomato dosa….Thank u
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