Here’s a recipe for the ultimate Brown Rice Dosa. If you love a classic south Indian dosa, this recipe takes the healthfulness up a notch. Most South Indian cooks have a pot full of dosa batter sitting in their refrigerators which they can pull out at any time to make a quick and nutritious breakfast, lunch, snack or dinner. Dosas cook pretty quickly on the skillet so in no time at all one can have a pile of hot, steaming crepes ready to eat. Making a dosa batter itself is not difficult, although it does require some soaking time to let the rice and lentils soften so once they are ground up into the batter they can cook quickly on the skillet. If you want to ferment the batter, you will need to add in another overnight wait. I like making quick dosas because they require even less soaking time than a regular dosa. But when I get the craving for a traditional dosa, I have a foolproof batter that’s ready in about 4 hours. Not bad. This time, I wanted to make my foolproof batter healthier by using brown rice instead of white, which I usually use. I have used brown rice in dosa batters before but I find it usually requires more soaking time. While wondering this past weekend, late in the afternoon, how I could get my dosa batter ready for dinner, I had a brainwave. Parboiled rice. Now before some of you seasoned cooks out there scream, hey, that’s what Indian cooks usually use for dosa, hear me out. I am not talking about the parboiled rice you can buy off the shelf. Instead, I thought I’d parboil my brown rice for a few minutes and then soak it with the lentils, reducing the total soaking time. Get it? Check to get new recipe updates by email.
So that’s what I did, and I couldn’t be more pleased with the results. I needed just five hours of soaking time and the dosas themselves were perfect– I spread them thin and they were crispy around the edges and delicious with the nutty flavor of brown rice. Here’s the recipe for my easy Brown Rice Dosa. Enjoy it with fresh coconut chutney and/or a traditional south Indian sambar for a delicious meal.
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