Cucumber Sweet Dosa

When we visited our neighbour the other day, they gave us home grown cucumbers (Thank you P & A) and we thought of preparing something special. Then we remembered our mother's recipe of sweet cucumber dosa, a delicacy of South Kanara, Karnataka. We would like to share this recipe with our friends.

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 1 cup

Idli rice - 1 cup

Cucumber - peeled, deseeded and diced - 1 large (Approx.350 gms)

Jaggery powder - 250 gms (Approx. 1 cup)

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Grated coconut, fresh or frozen - 1 cup

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Pre-preparation:

Soak rice for 5 hours.

Preparation:

Grind all the above ingredients with very little water (this is because cucumber and jaggery leave out water while you grind) into fine batter.

Heat dosa tawa and make dosas like any other dosa on medium heat baking both sides applying ghee.

Serve hot dosas with honey or sweet syrup.

Notes:

This makes about 14 dosas. If you overcook or roast, the dosa may become hard.

Variation:

You can also make spicy cucumber dosas. For this do not put jaggery and cardamom powder. Instead put 1 tsp of grated ginger, 3 chopped green chillies, chopped curry leaves, little coriander leaves and salt to your taste. The Spicy dosa can be served with coconut chutney.