Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Masala Dosai | Potato Masala Dosai | Tamilnadu Masala Dosai

Masala Dosai/Potato masala dosa, a delicious and signature South Indian breakfast recipe. It's one of the popular breakfast/dinner items in restaurants and I have seen that the restaurant here in Canada and US serve this masala dosa for lunch menu or even in buffet. 

Crispy dosa stuffed with scrumptious potato filling along with sambar & chutney is simply a heaven on your breakfast platter !!! There are a lot of variations available in making the potato masala based on the region or restaurant, here i'm sharing the basic version of how we make them at our home.

Amma used to make these masala dosa on weekend mornings in our school days and it's one of my childhood breakfast. As I grew up eating masala dosa at home, I'm not fond of restaurant masala dosa honestly.

In most of the restaurants, the stuffing is way more than what i used to eat at home. So whenever I order masala dosa at a restaurant, most of the potato stuffing remains untouched on my platter that makes me avoid ordering masala at restaurants. Yeah, I'm too picky when it comes to food not only with taste and aroma, how much of chutney or stuffing and all are very important to me. 

Ok, coming to today's recipe, it's a basic version of masala dosa that I grew up eating without any chutney spread or spice powder on top. If you're looking for Mysore style masala dosa with hot chutney spread, check out this recipe. Now  let's check out how to make delicious masala dosa.

Related : How to make Dosa Batter 





Tamilnadu Masala Dosai

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 25 minsServes : 2
 Recipe Category: Breakfast or Dinner | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
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Ingredients

Potato - 2 nos
Onion - 1 small
Tomato - 1/2 
Garlic - 1 (crushed)
Turmeric Powder - a pinch
Red Chili Powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Coriander leaves - few
Gram flour - 1 tsp
Oil - 1  tsp + enough for drizzling dosa
Mustard & urad dal - 1/4 tsp each
Dosa Batter - 2 cups(approx)





Procedure
Cook the potato and cut into small pieces, slice the onions thinly and cut tomato into small pieces and keep everything ready. Heat the kadai with oil , add the mustard , let it splutter and add urad dal.
Add onions, curry leaves and garlic.When the onions become translucent, add the tomatoes & saute for a while.
Add enough water to cook the onions, then add turmeric & chili powder, let it boil until the raw smell leaves.
Then add salt & potatoes , give a quick stir. In a bowl, add the gram flour and water, make it as thin batter.
Add the gram flour batter into potatoes and cook till it becomes thick(See Notes at the end ). Finally add coriander leaves and switch off the flame. Now heat the dosa pan and keep everything ready.
Pour the batter on the dosa pan and spread it evenly, drizzle some oil on the sides and cover it with lid, let it cook completely.
Add the required potato masala in the center of the dosa and fold it half. Tasty Masala Dosa is ready.
Serve it with sambar and/or chutney. We had it with sambar and mint chutney.
For more breakfast recipes, check out my breakfast collection and for more side dishes of idli & dosa, check out side dishes collection
Notes:

  • Instead of using gram flour and water mixture in the end, you can simply mash a few pieces of potatoes for thickness and totally skip the gram flour slurry. 
  • You can use the store bought dosa batter too for this recipe.
  • Cooking dosa on one side gives crispy dosa.
  • If you wish, you can add peas or grated carrot in the potato masala.
  • Instead of cutting the potatoes into small pieces, you can mash and add it too.






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