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.
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Rava Dosa | Semolina Crepes | Video
Ingredients
- ½ cup semolina or rava
- ¼ cup rice flour
- ¼ cup all purpose flour plain flour
- ¼ 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
- 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.
- Place a crepe pan or frying pan over medium heat.
- Brush the pan lightly with oil.
- Stir the batter.
- Pour ¼ cup batter into the pan in a very thin layer.
- The lace-like pattern will appear on the dosa immediately.
- Drizzle with a little ghee.
- Cook until the top of the dosa is no longer wet and bottom has turned light brown.
- Run a spatula around the edge of the pan to loosen the dosa.
- Fold and transfer to a serving plate.
- Repeat with the remaining batter. Serve hot with sambar and chutneys.
Video
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
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