Instant ragi dosa/ Ragi dosa is a delicious, healthy and very quick to make crispy dosa prepared with millet flour called Nachni or Ragi flour or Finger millet flour. Summer is almost there and recipes with ragi/ finger millet is very beneficial because ragi/ finger millet acts as a body coolant, is also rich in calcium, is a good source of fiber and also aids in weight as well. With ragi flour/ Finger millet flour variety of dishes can be prepared like these:
- Ragi roti
- Ragi kanji
- Ragi sweet adai
- Ragi murungai keerai adai
- Ragi semiya upma
- Ragi sweet semiya
- Ragi idli
- Ragi appam
Ragi dosa can be made from scratch by adding it to the freshly ground batter before fermentation or adding ragi flour to regular fermented dosa batter or in Instant version just like this recipe, which needs no soaking or fermentationI guess that’s why we call it INSTANT, in which crispy and delicious dosa can be achieved and works great on NO BATTER DAYS.This dosa recipe is very similar to this popular recipe from blog till date INSTANT RICE FLOUR DOSA.
Ragi dosa tastes great when served with Hotel style coconut chutney and Tiffin sambar. So let’s get to the making of ragi dosa/ finger millet dosa!!
- 1. Ragi flour / Finger millet flour– 1 cup
- 2. Rice flour - ¼ cup
- 3. Water – 3 cups (approx.)
- 4. Salt – ½ tsp
- 5. Cumin seeds/ jeera – ½ tsp
- 6. Onion – 4 tbsp (finely chopped)
- 7. Green chilli – 2
- 8. Curry leaves – few
- 9. Oil – ¼ cup (to make dosa)
- * 1 cup = 235 ml
- In a bowl add ragi dosa, rice flour, jeera/ cumin seeds and salt. Mix well.
- Now to the flour mixture add 3 cups of water (approx.) Mix well to make a thin and flowing consistency batter without any lumps. Water quantity might be more or less than the one mentioned so add it gradually.
- Now to the batter add chopped onion, green chilli and curry leaves. Mix well.
- Heat a tawa and pour a ladle of batter as outer circle then pour the batter as inner circle to form dosa shape. (Perfect batter and perfect heat of tawa will only yield holes in dosa) Drizzle oil around dosa and cook till the sides brown. When sides brown flip dosa and cook till done in medium to high flame.
- When dosa looks done transfer it to a plate with chutney and instant sambar. Repeat the process with till all the batter is over.
How to make Instant ragi dosa with step by step images
- In a bowl add ragi dosa, rice flour, jeera/ cumin seeds and salt. Mix well. Now to the flour mixture add 3 cups of water (approx.) Mix well to make a thin and flowing consistency batter without any lumps. Water quantity might be more or less than the one mentioned so add it gradually.
- Now to the batter add chopped onion, green chilli, and curry leaves. Mix well.
- Heat a tawa and pour a ladle of batter as outer circle then pour the batter as inner circle to form dosa shape. (Perfect batter and perfect heat of tawa will only yield holes in dosa) Drizzle oil around dosa and cook till the sides brown. When sides brown flip dosa and cook till done in medium to high flame. When dosa looks done transfer it to a plate with hotel style coconut chutney and instant sambar. Repeat the process with till all the batter is over.