I have hardly seen a recipe for this outside of India. It's called Green gram dosa or Green Moong dal dosa. It’s a fairly common food in India.
My recipe today is focused on a protein-packed superfood.
I am still surprised why this food has never made it to the top charts in western cuisine, despite the amount of protein and nutrients it packs in every serving.
It is a small variation of a popular recipe: Pesarattu 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 it with coconut chutney.
About this recipe
Pesarattu Dosa is a crepe that resembles dosa. It is made from a mixture of green gram (moong dal) and supporting ingredients, but in contrast to a dosa, it doesn't include urad dal.
Pesarattu is among the well-liked signatory morning meal recipes of Andhra Pradesh in India.
It is normally paired with ginger or tamarind chutney and makes an excellent and nutritious breakfast option.
Although this Green Moong dal dosa is commonly known as Pesarattu, there are slight differences between the two.
If you skip the rice and use onions as stuffing inside the dosa, it would be a traditional pesarattu dosa.
I skipped the onion part and I added to rice while blending the moong dal to bring more solidity to the batter.
This makes the batter a little smoother and easier to cook evenly.
Expert tips
Even though the procedure for green gram dosa is very simple, here are some tips and suggestions to make it one of your best dosas yet...
- Add ½ cup of idli rice with moong dal and then ground together. Rice helps to give a nice texture to moong dal dosa. You could also add rice flour instead of rice.
- Sprouted moong beans can be used instead of the soaked variety to make it healthier and nutritious. Yellow moong dal also works for this recipe. But the dosa would look like a ‘cheela.’
- You could add other flours like ragi, wheat, or chickpea instead of rice.
- Fried or raw onions can be used as stuffing for the dosa and served with Chutney.
- Lastly, I added green chilies and ginger while grounding the batter. This not only adds extra heat and flavor to a dosa but also helps digestion.
With hardly any prep work involved, this vegan and gluten-free (depending on what flour you add) would be one protein-rich breakfast option.
There is no need for fermenting the batter either. Just grind the soaked green gram with chili, and ginger together, and your batter is ready!
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📖 Recipe
Green Gram Dosa
Ingredients
- 2 cups Green Gram/ Moong dal
- ½ cup Long grain rice or idli rice
- 1 inch ginger
- 2 -3 green chilies
- Salt
Instructions
- Soak raw moong dal and rice in water for 6- 8 hours, in a large bowl.
- Blend the moong dal, rice with chopped ginger and green chili with sufficient water, and bring it to a fine consistency. Too much water will dilute the taste.2 cups Green Gram/ Moong dal, ½ cup Long grain rice or idli rice, 1 inch ginger, 2 -3 green chilies, Salt
- 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 before spreading it thinly over the skillet.
- Spread the batter and cover the lid for a few seconds.
- When the dosa turns crispy and cooked on the top, remove from the Tawa and fold.
- Green Gram Dosa is ready! Enjoy with coconut chutney and sambar.
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Notes
- Add ½ cup of idli rice with moong dal and then ground together. Rice helps to give a nice texture to moong dal dosa. You could also add rice flour instead of rice.
- Sprouted moong beans can be used instead of the soaked variety to make it healthier and nutritious. Yellow moong dal also works for this recipe. But the dosa would look like a ‘cheela.’
- You could add other flours like ragi, wheat, or chickpea instead of rice.
- Fried or raw onions can be used as stuffing for the dosa and served with Chutney.
- Lastly, I added green chilies and ginger while grounding the batter. This adds extra heat and flavor to the dosa and helps digestion.
YOUR OWN NOTES
Nutrition
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Sasmita
Green gram dosa seems a nice variation of making the usual dosa. Use of green gram make the dish much nutritious 🙂 SO yumm breakfast option, thank you for sharing !
Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey
My mum love Green Moong beans recipes, she makes idli, dosa and dhokla too. Such a delicious and nutritious recipe.
Jayashree T.Rao
I love green gram dosa as it is healthy and no fermentation is required. Thus, a quick breakfast is sorted with a little preparation.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan
Love the no ferment protein loaded dosais. I love the flavor of green gram dosai and it is so perfect for breakfast. Keeps us filled up for a while.
Padma Veeranki
This is one of our staples for breakfast..,,I too add rice to the dal for the crisp...My husband can eat this for every meal....Pesarattu, as we call looks delicious....Lovely share!!
Uma Raghupathi
Thank you Padma!
sapana
Green gram dosa is such healthy and delicious dosa and definitely would make a wonderful breakfast and or lunch.
Mayuri Patel
I recently made moong idli and next is going to be moong dosa. Suggestion of adding rice to make the dosa more crispy is good. Love the colour of the dosa and the photos too.
Priya Srinivasan
This is our favorite dosa! love your tips, i also prefer adding little rice to my pesarattu as my lil one wants his dosa lil on the crisper side!!!
Lata Lala
Green gram dosa is a good variation of making dosa. I would love to eat this for all the meals since this is protein packed.
Awesome post.
Uma Raghupathi
Thank you Lata!
Vandana
This sounds so delicious. I love your healthy breakfast recipes collection. I will also try.
Hamsa
Should we the belnd batter over night and do dose or immediate can we prepare
Uma Raghupathi
Hi Hamsa
You have to soak the grain overnight or 6 hours. Then blend it and do Dosa immediately:) Thank you!
The Vegan 8
This looks so full of flavor and easy too! Love that good chunk of fresh ginger too!
Dixya @ Food, Pleasure, and Health
i think dosa is the best food out there period!
Natalie Freed
This not only looks delicious, but pretty straightforward too. Pretty too!
Jenn S.
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!
Uma Raghupathi
Yes the little spice will make this dosa even more tastier, natural color is what I like in this dosa 🙂
Thanks Jenn.