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Kambu Dosa Recipe | Pearl Millet Dosa Recipe
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Kambu Dosa Recipe | Pearl Millet Dosa Recipe

Kambu (Pearl Millet) Dosa, a healthy alternate for the conventional dosa made with rice and urad dal. In this Kambu dosa, we are not using rice. ITs just the millet and urad dal with which the batter is prepared, fermented and tasty crispy dosas are made.
Prep Time1 hour
Cook Time20 minutes
Fermentation Time1 day
Total Time1 day 1 hour 20 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Tamil Nadu
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil Nadu
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 73kcal
Author: Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

  • Wet Grinder
  • Tawa

Ingredients

  • 2 Cups Kambu / Pearl Millet / Bajra 1 Cup - 250ml
  • ½ Cup Urad Dal
  • 1 teaspoon Fenugreek seeds
  • 2 tablespoon Sesame Oil For Cooking dosa

Instructions

Preparing Kambu Dosa Batter

  • Wash and soak the millet in water for 4 hours. Take urad dal and fenugreek in a vessel, wash and thoroughly and soak for 4 hours
  • After 4 hours, drain water from the urad dal and add it to the wet grinder. Grind the urad dal to a nice smooth fluffy batter. Take this batter in a mixing bowl
  • Next, add soaked and drained Kambu (Pearl Millet) in the wet grinder. Add water at regular intervals and grind it to smooth batter. Millet takes more time to grind into smooth batter. Its always a good choice to grind urad dal and millet separately to make sure both the batters are smooth.
  • Pour the Kambu batter into mixing bowl. Add 2 Teaspoon of Salt and Mix both the batters well.
  • Set this batter for fermentation for about 8-12 hours. Keep the batter in the warm place that quickens the fermentation process
  • After 8 or 12 hours, the batter would have nicely fermentated and becomes fluffy and raised up. Our Kambu Dosa batter is now ready!

Cooking Kambu (Pearl Millet) Dosa

  • Heat a tawa and grease with oil. When the tawa is sizzling hot, pour 1 full ladle of Kambu dosa batter and spread it to a thin dosa.
  • Pour a teaspoon of sesame oil around the dosa and cook the dosa in medium flame for about 30 seconds
  • Flip the dosa to other side and cook, till the dosa is crispy and golden color
  • Repeat this for the rest of the batter.
  • Serve the delicious Kambu Dosa | Pearl Millet with Tomato chutney or any chuntey of your choice or Sambar or Idli Podi and enjoy the healthy dosa!

Notes

  1. If you like crispy dosa, reduce the urad dal to ¼ cup and soak ¼ cup of idli rice 
  2. Fermentation hours may differ according to your climate conditions. If the season is sunny and warm, the batter may get fermented within 4 hours also. So depending upon the climatic conditions make sure to ferment the batter by keeping in a warm place. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1Dosa | Calories: 73kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 1g