Brown Rice Dosa

Healthy dosa is a possibility when we substitute brown rice with white rice without ANY difference in look, taste,crispness or flavor! The Brown Rice dosa combines the taste and yumminess that we all love about crisp dosas with the benefits of brown rice.

So why is Brown Rice considered better than White Rice? Brown Rice is white Rice with the hull and bran which are the two main things that provide fiber. When the bran and hull are removed,the rice is then polished to give the shiny white rice that we are used to. In the process the rice loses most of its nutrients like manganese, thiamine potassium and calcium. According to Livestrong.com, eating brown rice can actually help you lose weight. Read more about it here.

According to WebMD, Brown Rice can actually reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes. You can read more about it here.

I didn’t tell my husband and daughter that the dosas this time were made with Brown rice. It was after they had eaten, that I disclosed that I had tried a healthier version. No one could tell the difference and in fact my daughter requested dosas again the following night for dinner! Some of the other healthy dosa recipes to try out are Mixed Dal Instant Dosa-No Rice No fermentation, Daliye ka Dosa/Cracked Wheat Dosa, Mixed Dal Instant Idli-No Rice No Fermentation , Onion Rava Dosa on Electric Griddle and  Green Moong Dal Instant Dosa/Chilla.

Tips for fermenting and spreading Dosa batter-

1)Use your hands to mix salt into dough instead of spoon. The heat from the hands helps it to ferment better.

2)Place two green or red chilies on top

3)keep light in oven on all night. Provides perfect temperature for fermenting.Keep batter away from the light as the heat from the light starts cooking the batter

4)I use a cut onion to smear oil on pan, helps to remove the dosa perfectly, without sticking or breaking.

5) The pan should be cool for spreading dosa, so use a wet paper towel or towel to cool down the tava/pan before spreading the dosa.

6) After each dosa, cool the pan down with a wet towel and smear oil with a cut onion.

Here is the written recipe followed by the step by step pictorial one-

Brown Rice Dosa

Aanchal Gupta

Crispy dosas that are made from Brown Rice instead of the traditional white rice. Just as tasty and crisp as the original!

Print Recipe
Pin Recipe

Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 5 minutes mins

Total Time 10 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Dinner, lunch

Cuisine Ayurvedic, Indian, South Indian

Servings 15 -20 dosas depending on size

Equipment

• 1 bowl
• 1 blender I use Vitamix
• 1 non stick pan
• 1 ladle
• 1 spatula

Ingredients

  

1x2x3x

• 2 cups Brown Rice-I used Brown Basmati but you can use any variety
• 1 cup Urad dal
• 1 tsp Methi Dana/Fenugreek seeds

Instructions

 

• Wash Rice and Dal well till water runs clear.
• Add Methi dana and soak overnight.
• Rinse the Rice-Dal-Methi mixture well and grind everything together into a fine paste.
• Mix well with hands and place two Red chilies on top.Put in a large container with a lid.Keep in oven with light on overnight to ferment.Keep away from light as the light starts cooking the batter.
• After it ferments, put in refrigerator.
• Add water and salt, as needed to make the batter into pouring consistency.
• Heat a tawa/pan/griddle, rub some oil on the pan, use a wet towel to cool the pan and pour the batter in the middle of the tawa/pan/griddle.
• Quickly start spreading the batter to make a thin crepe/pancake.
• When you see its beginning to brown, add some oil.
• No need to flip, simply roll, remove from pan and serve with potatoes, sambar and coconut chutney.

Notes

Tips to ferment-Use your hands to mix dough instead of spoon. The heat from the hands helps it to ferment better.
Place two green or red chilies on top and keep light in oven on all night. Provides perfect temperature for fermenting.Keep batter away from the light as the heat from the light starts cooking the batter
I use a cut onion to smear oil on pan, makes the pan nonstick and helps to remove the dosa perfectly, without sticking or breaking.

Keyword brown basmati dosa, brown rice dosa, brown rice dosa batter, healthy dosa, low fat dosa

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

Here is the step by step pictorial recipe- 

Ingredients

Wash and soak overnight

Next morning rinse well

Grind into a smooth paste

Mix well. Place two chilies on top and put overnight in oven to ferment.

Fermented batter

Almost double!

Add salt and water as needed to make into spreadable consistency

Pour a ladleful of batter and spread the batter with the back of the ladle into a thin crepe

Add a few drops of oil, when it starts to brown and crisp.

Start rolling the dosa

Thin, crisp dosa!

Enjoy with Potatoes/Aloo, coconut chatni and piping hot sambar