Green Gram dosa
My recipe today is focused on a protein packed superfood. I am still surprised why this food has never made it to top charts in western cuisine, despite the amount of protein and nutrients it packs in every serving. I have hardly seen a recipe for this outside of India. Its called Green gram or Moon dal. It’s a fairly common food in India. For today’s recipe, I am posting a small variation of a popular recipe: Moong dal dosa. Typically the batter for this dosa is made just from moong dal and other spices, but I have added a little rice to make it more crispy and tasty.
In karnataka state, India this dosa is popular as “Hesarukalu dose”.
This dosa can be served with any side dish but I like to eat with coconut chutney.
Along with dosa recipe, I will post one of my chutney recipe that suits most of the dosas and some snacks too.
Ingredients :
- 2 cups Green Gram/ Moong dal
- 1 cup Long grain rice
- 1 inch ginger
- 2 green chili
- Salt
For chutney:
- 1 cup coconut
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 3-4 red chilies
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp black gram
- Oil
- Salt
Directions:
- Soak raw moong dal and rice in water for 6- 8 hours , in separate bowl.
- Blend the moong dal with chopped ginger and green chili with sufficient water to a fine consistency.
- Blend the rice with just enough water to bring to fine consistency. Too much water will dilute the taste.
- In big bowl combine the batters and mix well
- Add salt to taste.
- Place a cast iron skillet over medium heat. When it’s hot, pour a teaspoon of oil and let it heat up a little.
- Spread the batter and cover the lid for few seconds.
- After about 30 seconds, drizzle a little bit of oil and flip to other side for few seconds.
Moong dal dosa is ready!
Green gram and Dosa batter
Directions for Chutney:
- Blend the grated coconut with coriander seeds, red chili, salt with cup of water. Pour into separate bowl.
- For the seasoning, place a small pan over medium heat with tsp of oil, when oil is hot add mustard seeds and black gram. When it starts to sputter switch off the heat and mix well with the coconut blend.
Coconut chutney is ready to serve. Moong dal dosa/ hesarukalu dose and coconut chutney is a delicious combo!
Green Gram/ Hesarukalu dosa
| Prep time | Cook time | Makes |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Hours | 40 Minutes | 20- 25 dosa |
This sounds delicious. Do you cook the rice first before you soak it?
Do you cook the moong dal before you soak it?
Sorry for the confusion, Soak the raw rice and moong dal. Then blend it. 🙂 Hope this is helped you.
Thanks. I’m going to try this.
Thank you! As I mentioned in Ingredients you can use raw long grain rice. That is available in any grocery store 🙂
We are trying it with long grain brown rice, as that’s all we have. And all I could find were the green mung beans. They’re soaking now!
Love to hear that! I never tried in that way.Let me know how it came? Happy cooking.
I’ve never tried these! Awesome recipe 🙂
Love finding recipes I’ve tried before. Sounds interesting!
Thank you Sarah!
Ooohhhh! This looks good! I haven’t tried anything like this before!
Thank you!
What a wonderful recipe. I definitely want to try this!
I have never had dosa before but have been meaning to try! I sure hope I can find all these ingredients, especially the dal, up here in Canada!
Yum! These look like a healthier version of my favourite masala dosas!
What a great recipe!
Thank you!
Easy, healthy, and delicious. All the things that I look for in a recipe. Thank you!
Thanks Linda for noticing and mentioning 🙂
Looks delicious and I especially love the chutney!
Thanks Patricia! Yes this chutney is very tasty!
SO quick and easy. I must try this!
I love a good dosa recipe but I’ve never had a green gram dosa. Definitely need to try this 🙂
I have never tried much of Indian cuisine, but your blog might just changed me 🙂
Thanks Hedi. This is one of the kind and motivating comment.:)
This is one of my staples for breakfast..I also use the split green moong beans instead of whole moong beans for this recipe..and sometimes I also add chilka urad or split black gram into this mix. photos are really good!
Thanks Pragathi. Yes I will also use that lentils for a change. That is called Adai.:)
This looks delicious and a lot easier than I thought!
Thanks Michelle 🙂
They look so soft and delicious! I love that there is chili in there for a little spice. And the color is perfect for spring!
Yes the little spice will make this dosa even more tastier, natural color is what I like in this dosa 🙂
Thanks Jenn.
This not only looks delicious, but pretty straightforward too. Pretty too!
i think dosa is the best food out there period!
This looks so full of flavor and easy too! Love that good chunk of fresh ginger too!
Thanks for introducing me to this dish, it sounds wonderful!
I’ll have to try out dal myself soon! These wraps look super delicious and easy to make 🙂
Wow, this sounds absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to try it 🙂
Should we the belnd batter over night and do dose or immediate can we prepare
Hi Hamsa
You have to soak the grain overnight or 6 hours. Then blend it and do Dosa immediately:) Thank you!