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    Home » Vegetarian Side Dishes » Crispy Paper Roast Dosa with Tomato Chutney!

    Crispy Paper Roast Dosa with Tomato Chutney!

    Published: Jan 22, 2008 · Modified: Sep 23, 2020 by Srivalli · 11 Comments

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    The best dosa type in plain dosa, is thin paper roast ones. That is, if I can say that, other than Kal dosas. Actually it depends on what side dish you have and for that what dosa to make. Amma follows quite a number of proportions. But you get to enjoy those really crispy thin ones, roasted in ghee and served. Konda likes the crispy ones. So whenever a dosa gets fried, little too crispy I save that for her.

    Amma spreads out really thin ones, that there will not be any extra batter on the pan. But I sometimes have extra batter at few places which will be spongy and in most areas you will have those crispy areas which are roasted in oil. These are the things, that my daughter loves. She will sit and keep eating only that and not even bother about the side dishes that's been served.

    So I remembered this variety that Amma used to make and asked for the proportion. These really came out as thin as you want! In restaurants, you get served these as cones or as big ones. I remember when VIP Golden Beach was getting lot of attention because of its specialty dosas, sold in its restaurants. They were having these big family dosas, which will be enough for 10 people.

    Imagine sitting at a table and eating at the same dosa with your family. I used to think it was so funny but never had an opportunity to experience this. Two to four people used to bring this to the table and serve it for the customers. And the different chutneys that gets served. Yummy. I still find the red chutney that's served at Chains of restaurants like Sangeetha and Saravana Bhavan, very tasty.

    Its onion, tomatoes and red chili chutney but they have an unique taste to it. I haven't attempted reproducing it at home. My variety of tomatoes chutney comes out quite well. Infact, hubby dear got so bugged with Ground nut chutney that for quite sometime, it was only these onion or tomato chutneys that I was preparing.

    This tomato chutney recipe was given to my mom by her sister, who lived in Vizag for a decade. Not sure if its from Vizag but I got to know from my cousin, when she visited us, that this chutney is their favorite and that they eat with Rice too. I have never tried with Rice, though I love with crispy dosas.

    Crispy Paper Dosa

    For basic details on dosa can be found here.

    Boiled Rice - 3 cups
    Raw Rice - 2 cups
    Urud Dal - 1 cup
    Fenugreek seeds - 3/4 tsp
    Salt to taste

    Method to prepare:

    Wash and clean the rice and soak for 6 hrs. Grind to smooth batter and let it ferment overnight. Its enough to add 3 4ths quarter of Fenugreek seeds as more of this will make the dosa look more brown.

    Few hrs before using, mix the batter again so that the salt gets mixed well.

    Heat a dosa tawa and spread a ladle ful of batter, as thin as possible. The consistency is such that you can get very thin ones.

    Sprinkle little oil or ghee for more taste.

    Tomato Chutney

    Ingredients needed

    Tomatoes - 4
    Onions - 2
    Red chilies - 5 (adjust to your taste)
    Curry few - 5 nos
    Coriander leaves - 1/4 packed cup
    Salt to taste
    Garlic - 2 pods
    Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
    Oil - 1 tsp

    Seasonings
    Mustard seeds + urud dal + Curry leaves

    Method to prepare

    Chop onions and tomatoes. Heat a pan with oil. Roast all the ingredients in oil. Once its cool, grind to smooth paste.

    Temper this with the seasoning.

    Serve this with crispy dosas.

    My next dosa type in this series is Kal dosa! Anyone with explanations on what is Kal Dosa? Would love to hear them.

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    Crispy Paper Roast Dosa with Tomato Chutney!

    Course Breakfast, Dinner
    Cuisine Tamil Nadu
    By Cook Method Stovetop
    By Diet Vegetarian
    Dish Type Dosa Varieties
    Author Srivalli
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    1. kamala says

      January 22, 2008 at 2:05 pm

      Paper Roast dosa is all time favourite in our home.Tomato chutney is good side dish.Thanks for the recipe

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    2. Asha says

      January 22, 2008 at 12:53 pm

      I made crisp Masala dosa last week. Roast dosa looks delicious! Thanks for Tomato chutney recipe!:))
      (I have enabled the comments again)

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    3. M&Ms... says

      January 22, 2008 at 7:39 pm

      my mouth waters but don't think I have the courage to make my own dosa 🙁

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    4. Mandira says

      January 22, 2008 at 7:45 pm

      wow, that looks delicious!

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    5. Shella says

      January 23, 2008 at 9:59 am

      My husband really loves the crisp ones' so I am going to try this recipe out. Thanks

      Reply
    6. Anonymous says

      January 23, 2008 at 5:30 am

      when u say boiled rice, u mean parboiled rice variety or u mean cooked rice? i think u mean the 1st.please clarify.

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    7. Srivalli says

      January 23, 2008 at 6:18 am

      Asha, thank you..its good to have you back

      kamala, you are welcome!

      M&Ms, I think you should just take the drive in and make it!

      Mandira, thanks for dropping by!

      Anon, Yes I meant parboiled rice...it would be great if you leave your name. Will be nice to know who is commenting!

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    8. Bharathy says

      January 23, 2008 at 7:45 am

      My All time favourite here,Sri!:)..

      So you add raw rice as well for the dosa batter??I normally use the parboiled one only..may be the reson why I alwys get softer outputs,rather than crispy 🙂

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    9. Sagari says

      January 23, 2008 at 1:24 pm

      dosa and tomato chutney wowwwwww heavenly combo thanks for sharing srivalli

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    10. Bharathy says

      January 25, 2008 at 6:57 pm

      oh my my!So sweet of you to announce about my spl day here! :)..How did I miss that earlier??:0..
      Sorry dear!
      Hugs!

      Reply
    11. Srivalli says

      January 28, 2008 at 12:08 pm

      Bharathy, yeah try this and see if you get crispy ones...Its my pleasure..hope you had fun!

      Shella, thats great...sure do try and let me know!

      Sagari, you are most welcome!

      Reply

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