Dosa Recipe, How to Make Dosa Batter

Dosa Recipe, Learn how to make Dosa Batter at home.� This detailed post will guide you to make dosas of all kinds – soft, crispy, restaurant style, home style and healthy dosas. No matter you are a beginner or an experienced cook the tips & tricks mentioned in this post will help you master the techniques of making the BEST South Indian Dosa.

Dosa is a popular South Indian thin crepe made with fermented rice and lentil batter. History of dosa says they were made using only rice but with the passage of time, people started to add urad dal / black lentils to give texture and taste.

Dosas became very popular with the rise of Udupi restaurants which serve the best dosa varieties – plain, set and masala dosa. Dosa is made by soaking and blending black gram lentils (urad dal) and rice to a batter. Then the fermented batter is spread like a crepe on a hot griddle or tawa.

How to make Dosa

Soaking the lentils, rice, making the batter, fermenting the batter calls for time, planning and some prep work. So for your ease of understanding, I have divided this step by step guide into 4 main parts:

  1. Soaking rice and lentils
  2. Making dosa batter in a blender or mixer-grinder
  3. Fermenting dosa batter
  4. Making dosa