Azhagar Koil dosai
Azhagar Koil dosai is the offering made to the deity at the Azhagar Koil in Madurai. It is different from the regular dosas and is unique and delicious
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
- ½ cup raw rice (Pacharisi)
- ½ cup parboiled rice(ponni or idli rice)
- ½ cup whole black urad dal
- 1 tsp whole black pepper
- ½ tsp cumin
- ¼ tsp ginger powder
- 1 tbsp chopped curry leaves
- 1 tbsp ghee/sesame oil
- ghee/oil for drizzling
- salt as needed
- water as needed for grinding
Instructions
- Measure the rice and urad dal and soak them together for 3-4 hours. Grind it to a coarse batter in a wet grinder or mixer. Add the required salt and set aside for 2 hours.
- After 2 hours, coarsely pound the pepper and cumin and chop the curry leaves finely. Add this to the batter along with the ginger powder and ghee/oil. Check and adjust for salt.
- Heat up a tawa, drizzle oil/ghee, and spread out a ladle of batter. You can keep it thick like the uthapam or thin like the dosa.
- Flip over and cook on both sides drizzling ghee as needed. Serve with butter/ idli podi or some chutney.
