Rava Dosa | Semolina Crepes | Video

Rava dosa (semolina crepes). Start your day off with crispy savory crepes made with semolina or rava and flavored with onions, ginger and green chilies. It gets a flavor boost from the addition of cumin seeds. These easy, tasty, healthy lace crepes are a great addition to your breakfast recipe repertoire.

In our quest to eat a perfect healthy diet, we often blindly follow fad diets and unhealthy highly processed foods. Not only these are loaded with sugar and calories, they are also super expensive. However, on the other side, if you take a closer look at your shopping list and design your menu around simple, seasonal, healthy, basic ingredients, it’ll certainly guide you towards your wellness goals that are more practical and easier to achieve. 

With that in mind, let me introduce you to a traditional South Indian breakfast dish made with simple classic ingredients like semolina, rice flour and all purpose (plain) flour. Semolina crepes or rava dosa. These savory crepes are flavored with fresh ingredients like onions, green chilies and ginger. Just basic ingredients turned into super flavorful crepes.

How To Make Semolina Crepes or Rava Dosa

The right ratio of ingredients used is the key to making perfect crepes. Equal quantities of all purpose flour and rice flour plus twice the quantity of semolina or rava. For great tasting crepes, make sure you use good quality semolina. 

You’ll also need a few ingredients that are guaranteed to flavor the batter. This includes chopped onions, green chilies, fresh ginger and curry leaves. Mix everything together with plenty of water. I also like to add a couple of tablespoons of yogurt. It gives that gorgeous color to the rava dosa. 

More Semolina Recipes:

• Basbousa | Semolina Coconut Cake
• Vegetable Upma with Semolina 
• Baghrir | Moroccan Pancakes 

More Dosa Recipes:

• Mysore Masala Dosa
• Masala Dosa 
• South Indian Veg Spring Dosa
• Crispy Oats Dosa Recipe
• How to Make Dosa |Rice and Lentil Crepes

Yield: 15 crepes

Rava Dosa | Semolina Crepes | Video

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Simple yet delicious and crispy dosa or crepe made in minutes with semolina

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup semolina or rava
• 1/4 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup all purpose (plain) flour
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon yogurt
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon minced ginger (ginger paste)
• 1 green chili, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves
• 5 curry leaves, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups water
• Ghee, to drizzle over the dosas
• Oil, to grease the pan
• Sambar, to serve
• White coconut chutney, to serve
• Coriander (cilantro) chutney, to serve
• Tomato chutney, to serve

Instructions

1. Place semolina, rice flour, all purpose (plain) flour, onion, yogurt, cumin seeds, minced ginger, green chilies, coriander (cilantro) leaves, curry leaves, salt and water in a large bowl. Stir to combine. Cover and set aside for 15 minutes.
2. Place a crepe pan or frying pan over medium heat.
3. Brush the pan lightly with oil.
4. Stir the batter.
5. Pour 1/4 cup batter into the pan in a very thin layer.
6. The lace-like pattern will appear on the dosa immediately.
7. Drizzle with a little ghee.
8. Cook until the top of the dosa is no longer wet and bottom has turned light brown.
9. Run a spatula around the edge of the pan to loosen the dosa.
10. Fold and transfer to a serving plate.
11. Repeat with the remaining batter. Serve hot with sambar and chutneys.

Notes

• The best pans to make these dosas are cast iron pans. However, crepe pans or regular frying pans can also be used
• Cook dosas over medium heat
• The batter needs to be very thin

Nutrition Information

Yield

5

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 253Total Fat 8gSaturated Fat 3gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 7mgSodium 582mgCarbohydrates 40gFiber 5gSugar 7gProtein 7g

The nutritional data is for information purposes only

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