{"id":1081,"slug":"dosa-i","title":"Dosa I","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["3 cups uncooked white rice","1 cup urad dal (black gram)","1 handful of cooked rice (if required)","1 pinch of sugar (if desired)","¼ teaspoon salt"],"ingredients_norm":["uncooked white rice","urad dal","cooked rice","sugar","salt"],"steps":["Put the rice and dal in a large pot and wash twice.","Fill with water until the rice and dal are submerged by 2 inches.","Soak for 6 hours.","Grind in a blender, water and all, for 30 minutes. If the weather is cold, grind in a handful of cooked rice and a pinch of sugar to help with the fermentation process.","Let ferment overnight in a warm place. Make sure the pot is twice as large as the amount of batter, as it will rise a great deal.","Add salt; at this point the batter can be kept in the refrigerator for more than a week until you wish to fry the dosas.","Heat a tava (large flat pan) or griddle over a high flame.","Sprinkle water on the pan to cool it a little.","Pour ½–¾ cup batter in the middle of the pan, depending on preferred thickness and crispiness.","Spread the batter with the back of a spoon, starting from the centre and spiralling outwards until the dosa is about 10 inches across and very thin.","Sprinkle a little oil around the edges of the dosa.","Cover until the dosa shows brown through the thinnest parts.","Flip the dosa to the other side, and allow it to cook for a few seconds.","Fold in half and remove with a metal spatula."],"categories":["Pancake recipes","Recipes for pancakes","Recipes for flatbread","Recipes for dosa","Recipes using sugar","Dal recipes"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":"10–15 dosa","difficulty":"medium","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Dosa_I","source_ref":"4519139","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Dosa_I&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"92b214b6c1a3d154fa7f189e4158d428945a7eaa49cc257228417ab15832a168","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:00Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/dosa-i"}