Buttermilk Dosa

Can you stop that vata vata vata and come down right now for breakfast?  Dosa is S…colding, Butter is S..hotting, n Oh that Milk sulking “how long should I stay warm” Look, even milk is reacting cold!  enacts Paati to Vidy – Vaasi “Chatters of V2 Sisters fame”.

 “Whatta Paati we no noising vata vata. We only chatpatta chatting on facebook…. Should we neatly scribble songs in a notebook or shall we keep chequeing on VAT, or concentrate completely only on writing CAT or sit also for SAT or better still, numbly kneel down on a yoga mat and extract fat” reacts  Vaasi.

While V2 wait for a pat on their back in admiration of their brainy chat, Paati is wise. She thinks otherwise! “These two deserve a whack on their back”. Pat comes Paati’s reply.

“Facebook, notebook, chequebook … Oho  shut those books n  show your face first. Health is what begets Wealth, do you get me?” screams Paati bold, those old n healthy words of gold.

Utterly rundown, down run V2 combine for a faceoff with Paati. Trapped in the heart of Paati’s love, they felt it fair to wage a war. With face down on Butter n Milk they sign off hunger striking…No Butter, No Milk Only Dosa! Off rushes Paati to the kitchen grumbling “Enna idi romba mosa” (This isn’t fair at all)

Did Paati punish them with none of these or pamper them with all of these? Find out right below :) 

Freezing collection! Cups of buttermilk curdling, each of them crying “please use me” “find friends for me” Are you going frenzy…don’t be crazy! Just chill…..all they need is a bit of cuddling and cajoling. Call for rice and black gram. Give crying buttermilk their company, just so they don’t sulk. Let these pals soak, swim or simply enjoy a “sleepover” but for not more than 1.5 hours. Get ready for the grind. Once you grind them to a batter, they are up awake n ready for banter. Now you get steady. Just pour one ladleful on a hot tava and see the sumptuous surpp…rise! Heavenly Crepe bubbling only for you…just go gobble!!

Dish Type: South Indian Breakfast

PC: Mrs. Vasanthi Hariprakash

Batter type: Buttermilk Dosa

Soaking time:  1.5 hrs

Ingredients

Buttermilk                   1 cup (say 100 ml)

Rice                             2 handsful

Black gram dal           1 handful (use either full round dal or that split kind)

Salt to taste                 1/2 tsp approx.

Directions

Soak ingredients except salt, in buttermilk for 1.5 hours.

Grind to get a smooth batter.

Continue grinding till the texture of batter becomes smooth.

Now transfer the batter to a vessel. Add salt. Mix thoroughly.

Buttermilk Dosa Batter is now ready.

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Recipe contributed by nonagenarian Smt. Padmini Rangarajan, expert cook and grandmother of Vasanthi Hariprakash

Vasanthi Hariprakash says and I quote:

Smt. Padmini Rangarajan

“My Chikkamma (younger aunt) Godha says Curd Dosa is same as our Usual Dosa 1 (urad) : 3 (rice) just that instead of soaking in water, it soaks in buttermilk. But Doddamma (older aunt J) Gayathri says Urad Dal should be less. Grandma Padmini feebly corrects her younger daughter “You don’t need more urad dal for Buttermilk Dosa because buttermilk itself lends the required ferment and lift”

For that “higher taste” use buttermilk that remains when you make butter. Don't know how to make? Click "How to make butter and ghee"

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