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    Home » Lunch and Dinner Recipes

    Mushti Dosa

    Published: Feb 20, 2016 · Modified: Nov 12, 2016 by Kushi · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Mushti Dosa or Pancake  is a very soft, nutritious and tasty dosa recipe prepared using rice, poha / beaten rice and grated coconut.
    Mushti Dosa or Pancake

    This is my guest post for Vidhya's Vegetarian Kitchen. Vidhya and I became friends through social media, and one of the main reasons for us getting to know each other is due to our same passion for food. Vidhya is a very talented food blogger and is an expert of traditional Indian recipes. All her recipes are easy to follow and are healthy. She also writes excellent review posts on products that she has used and about books she has read. Recently I prepared pineapple rasam using the recipe from her blog as it was very innovative. The rasam was tasty and my family simply loved it. Thank you so much Vidhya for giving me this opportunity and sharing your space with me. I am really honored. You can follow Vidhya on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, or Instagram.

    As I am Konkani, I thought it would be most appropriate to share a popular dosa recipe from this cuisine. In Konkani this is known as mushti polo, where mushti means 'handful or fistful' and polo means dosa, "Handful of nutrition".

    In this dosa recipe, except for rice, all the other main ingredients (urad dal, coconut, and poha) are handful measures 🙂 When the dosa batter is ground to a smooth consistency and properly fermented, you can make perfect mushti dosas every single time. Traditionally mushti dosa is thicker than other South Indian dosas and is cooked only on one side. A perfect mushti dosa should have lot of holes on its surface. The addition of coconut and poha when grinding the batter makes this dosa extremely soft and airy at the top, and gives it a crispy bottom when cooked on one side. However, when I prepare this at home I make both thick dosas, as well as thin crispy versions. Mushti polo / dosa tastes the best when served with hing chutney that is prepared using dry red chillies or along with chilled mango rasayana.

    Mushti Dosa or Pancake

    Preparation time : 30 minutes
    Fermentation : overnight
    Serves : 15 dosas

    Ingredients for Mushti Dosa

    Raw rice - 2 cups
    Urad Dal / Split lentil - 3 tbsp
    Methi seeds / Fenugreek seeds  - ¼ tsp
    Poha / Flattened rice - 1 cup
    Grated coconut - ½ cup
    Coconut oil / vegetable oil - for cooking dosas
    Salt - to taste

    Steps to prepare Mushti Dosa

    Step I

    • Wash and soak rice, urad dal and methi seeds together for 4 hours and drain them.
    • Wash the poha or beaten rice just before grinding the dosa batter.
    • Now grind together the soaked ingredients along with poha and grated coconut by adding water little by little to form a smooth batter.
    • Transfer this to a big bowl and allow it to ferment overnight.

    Step II

    • Next morning, add salt to the batter and mix well.
    • Heat the tava / pan on medium heat. Grease it with little oil if using cast iron tava.
    • Once the tava is hot and on a medium flame, pour a laddle full of batter and allow it to spread by itself. Drizzle oil around the edges. You will see the holes appearing on the top surface.
    • Just cover it with a lid and cook for 2 minutes or until the dosa develops a nice golden color at the bottom.
    • Repeat the process for remaining batter.
    • Mushti Dosa is now ready. Serve hot with hing chutney and enjoy.

    Tips for dosa

    • If the weather is cold, then grind the batter using warm water or preheat the oven to 150 degree F, switch off the oven and rest the batter overnight.
    • As mushti polo is traditionally prepared as a thick dosa, do not spread the batter once you pour on a hot tava - like you would generally do with other dosas.
    • I have cooked this dosa in both non-stick and cast iron tava. If the batter is prepared as instructed, these dosas are very easy to handle.
    • Kids generally like to eat crispy dosas, so feel free to take thin crispy dosas using the same batter.
    • Because you are adding poha, dosa may turn black soon if cooked in high flame.
    • Except for rice, try to use fistful measurements for coconut, poha and urad dal.

    Mushti Dosa or Pancake

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    1. Revathi

      March 09, 2016 at 1:40 pm

      Dosa is my favorite for breakfast. This Mushti Dosa looks so beautiful and I especially love the spongy texture 🙂

      Reply
      • Kushi

        March 09, 2016 at 9:19 pm

        Thank you Revathi 🙂

        Reply
    2. Satya

      March 12, 2016 at 5:21 am

      Wil someone share the recipe for the chutney shown in the picture along with mushkil dosa.

      Reply
      • Kushi

        March 12, 2016 at 9:48 am

        You can click on this link : http://www.cookwithkushi.com/hing-chutney/

        Reply
    3. Sucharu

      October 01, 2016 at 9:35 pm

      Wow it looks good .I love dosa and definitely going to try this.thanks kushi for sharing

      Reply
      • Kushi

        October 02, 2016 at 11:44 pm

        Thank you 🙂 Do let me know how this turned out!

        Reply
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