Masala Dosa

Masala dosa was my childhood favorite. I Still remember the taste of it from a restaurant near by my native place. Combined with vada the taste of hot masala dosa was slurpppp. Now i used to prepare occasionally. When i prepared on last day, thought to share the recipe with you all and took all the shots :) .

Serves-2 to 3

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Ingredients:

Potato	2 (big)
Carrot(optional)	1 (medium)
Big Onion	1(medium)
Ginger	2&1/2 tbl spoon
Green chilly	4 (medium)
Turmeric Powder	1/2 tspoon
Salt	to taste

To temper (kaduvarukkal):

Oil	1 tbl spoon
Urad dal	1 tspoon
Channa dal	1 tspoon
Dry red chilly	3
Mustard	1 tspoon
Cashew nuts	5
Curry leaves	1 sprig

Preparation:

(1) Peel the skin of potato and chop into small cubic shapes. Pressure cook the pieces for 3 whistles by adding 1 cup of water with little salt . Once the pressure is released drain any excess water and mash the pieces. Keep it aside.

(2) Chop the needed ingredients like onion, green chilly, ginger and carrot. Grate the carrot or chop it into very thin and tiny pieces so that it will cook in a minute.

(3) Heat oil in a pan and add the ingredients shown under "to temper" heading. Saute till casewnuts turns brownish. Add ginger and green chillies. Saute for some seconds. Now add chopped onion slices with little salt. Saute till it changes light brown. Now add grated carrot. Stir for 1 minute.

(4) Now add turmeric powder with 2 tbl spoon to 1/4 cup of water. Mix once and add mashed potato. Mix well. Make a salt test here. Let it heat for another 5 minutes so that the water will dries off and potato mix well with the masala. Your potato masala is now ready.

(5) Heat dosa making tawa and prepare dosa. Pour 1 tspoon of oil/ghee above the dosa. When one side is cooked take a ladle of prepared masala and spread it on the centre of dosa.

(6) Cover it by folding the two sides of dosa as shown in the picture. keep it for few more seconds. No need to flip the dosa. Your masala dosa is now ready.

Tips and variations:

• Topping with ghee over the dosa than oil gives an extra flavor but avoid it if you are health conscious.
• Addition of carrot is optional.
• You can also top 1/2 tspoon of DOSA PODI followed by ghee/oil over the dosa.
• Don't make the dosa too crispy because you can't fold it properly.