Set Dosa or Challa Pongaralu or Sponge Dosa or Poha dosa

Today's recipe is one of many varieties of dosa. This is my all time favorite dosa. Soft, spongy, little sour in taste with spicy Ginger chutney is an amazing combination for breakfast/dinner/snack. This dosa is prepared in a different way soaking ingredients in sour yogurt. Yogurt helps in fermentation and flattened rice/poha gives that soft, spongy texture to dosa. This dosa looks and feels like pan cakes. 

My mom makes best poha dosa ever. I always tried to make but every time it was not the same texture like the way my mom makes it.  Finally I am getting the right consistency for past few weeks. 

Here is the recipe. Next time when your kid asks for pan cakes try these and surprise them. I am sure they will love it.

Ingredients

3 cups of rice/parboiled rice

1 cup of poha/flattened rice

2 tbsp urad dal

3 tbsp oats (this is my variation from my moms)

1tbsp fenugreek seeds

2 cups of sour yogurt

1. Wash all ingredients and drain the water.
2. Soak ingredients in sour yogurt and add enough water till all the ingredients are fully submerged. (Approximately 1 cup of water)
3. Soak for 5 to 6 hours or overnight
4. Drain and reserve the liquid and grind to a smooth paste using the reserved liquid in a blender
5. Add salt and mix well and keep it aside for fermentation for 3 to 4 hours.
6. If you are living in cold temperatures keep the batter in oven with the lights on. If your oven doesn't have light then pre heat oven to 100 F for 5 mts and switch off the oven and keep the batter for fermentation
7. Once the batter is fermented it will double the quantity (Make sure you keep the batter in bigger container to avoid overflowing.)
8. In a pan add few drops of oil once oil is hot add two small ladles of batter and drizzle few drops of oil around the edges and cover it with lid
9. cook till the base is cooked and top is softy and spongy/airy with lot of holes. 
10. Turn and cook on the other side for 1/2 mt 
11. Serve with spicy chutney or sambar or both.

Mumbai style Grilled Veggie Sandwich

Are you tired of eating same type of food every day? It is tough to make variety for weeknight dinners. With the office work and household chores I would rather make something simple than planning for a variety. But I get bored of eating similar food for a week. Today is was one of those days , so I ended up making Mumbai street food style sandwich.

Here is the simple,easy and delicious grilled veggie sandwich

Ingredients:

Bread (Wheat or white or whole grain)
Green chutney (Coriander, mint chutney) (Recipe below)
cheese slice or grated cheese  (optional)
veggies as you like
Sandwich masala powder to sprinkle on the veggies ( you can use chaat masala if you do not have sandwich masala powder) I used store bought sandwich masala for today :)
butter

Recipe:

Spread butter on the bread slices .
Spread evenly green chutney on the buttered slices
assemble veggies and sprinkle sandwich masala powder and cover with the other slice bread (butter /chutney side down)
Press it firm and apply small amount of butter on both sides and place on the hot griddle

Cook on both sides till it turns golden color.

Remove from griddle cut diagonally and serve.

After a taking one single bite of this sandwich I will bet you will be in dream world) Crispy sandwich just melts in your mouth.

(Sandwich masala powder recipe from Tarladalal
1 tsp cloves
1/4 cup cumin seeds
 2 tsp black peppercorns
2tsp fennel seeds
 1/4 inch cinnamon
 1tsp black salt
1tsp dry mango powder

Dry roast cloves, cumin, cinnamon, fennel and cinnamon til they reach golden color.
Combine roasted ingredients along with salt and dry mango powder and using a coffee grinder grind into powder and store in a airtight container

Green chutney Recipe:

1 bunch of coriander leaves
1/2 bunch of mint leaves
5 green chilies (adjust as per your taste)
1 lemon (cut and extract juice)
salt

using a blender or food processor blend all the ingredients into smooth paste (Add water if necessary to attain smooth paste consistency). Adjust spice accordingly