Onion Rava Dosa

Onion Rava dosa is one of the most popular south Indian dosa variety. It also happens to be one of the most ordered recipe at any hotels for breakfast as they serve it thin and crisp like paper roast with chutney and sambar. The best part of making onion rava dosa is that it does not require any fermentation and can be prepared in just 15 minutes. Today we will learn crispy south Indian style onion rava dasa.

Onion Rava Dosa

Ingredients: Serve - 2

• Oil/ ghee  - for making dosa
• Rava / semolina - 1 cup
• Rice flour - 1cup
• Maida - 1/2 cup
• Water - as required
• Cumin seeds - 1/2tspn
• Pepper corns - 2tspn(crashed)
• Ginger - small piece
• Green chili - 2
• Onion - 2(big)
• Curry leaves - as required
• Coriander leaves - as required
• Salt - 1tspn (adjust to taste)

The following picture shows the step by step process for Onion Rava Dosa:

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 Method:

1. First cut the onions, green chillies, ginger as very  thin small pieces and crash the pepper corn. keep as side.
2. Take a bowl add rava, rice flour, maida, salt, cumin seeds, pepper corns, green chilies, ginger and mix well. (figure 1,2 & 3)
3. Add required water to make a batter thinner than normal dosa batter. (figure 4)
4. Let the batter rest for 5 minutes. (figure 5)
5. Heat a non stick dosa pan on medium flame, spread onions on pan and take hand full of batter and spread the batter in round shape. Else you can take 1 ladle batter and spread the batter from outer side of the pan to the center. (unlike normal dosa which you will spread from the center to outer) (figure 6 & 7)
6. Pour few drops of oil on top and cook in medium flame until dosa becomes golden brown. Flip the dosa cook and until it gets cooked. (figure 8)
7. Remove dosa from the pan and serve in plate with chutney or sambar.

Onion Rava Dosa is ready to serve ! 

Additional tips:-

• Dosa batter should be very thin then only dosa will come thin or else dosa become very thick & do not cook well.