Kurunai Dosai/Mulu Ulundhu Dosai/Whole Black Gram Dhal Dosa

This is a speciality from my mom’s cuisine. This is recipe is a regular in many of the pillaimar households. This recipe uses whole black gram with its skin intact instead of  the white deskinned one to make dosa. In olden days, when the reap from the fields used to come home, only the broken black gram was used for the dosa and whole ones are deskinned for regular idly/dosa. And hence the name “Kurunai Dosai”. My  grandma also calls it “Karutha Dosai” because of its greyish black hue.

The  batter preparetion is similar to regular dosa. But this Dosa tastes very different from the regular dosa and is healthy too because of the whole grams. Taste it to believe it…

Posting this recipe for ‘show me your dosa’ event hosted by Divya of Dilse.

Also sending this recipe to “Food palette series Black” hosted by Torviewtoronto.

Kurunai Dosai/Mulu Ulundhu Dosai/Whole Black Gram Dhal Dosa

Ingredients:

4 cups boiled rice

1 cup of black urad dhal

1/2 spoon fenugreek  seeds (optional)

salt as required

Method:

1. Soak the rice and dhal for 3-4 hours separately.
2.  First grind the dhal into smooth batter.
3. Next grind the rice into a fine consistency.
4. Mix both and add required salt. Allow the batter to ferment overnight.
5. Next morning make dosas in the dosa griddle. These dosas taste good when made either soft or crispy.
6. The ideal combination is vengaya thuvaiyal or vadaga thuvaiyal.

July 30, 2011. Tags: karuppu ulundhu dosai, Kurunai dosai, mulu ulundhu dosai, nellai samaiyal, saiva pillai samaiyal. Dosa Variety, Nellai Samaiyal, Saiva pillai samaiyal. 2 comments.