How To Make Instant Dosa Mix Powder

Ingredients

5 cups – Rice
2 cups – Urad Dal – Black Gram
1/4 cup – Chana Dal – Bengal Gram / Chickpie
2 tbs – Menthi – Fenugreek Seeds

Grind to fine powder. Add salt, baking soda, Jeera (Cumin seeds)and Hing (Asafoetida) powder.

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Our body needs carbohydrates, proteins, calcium, fats, vitamins, mineral salts, fibre.

Dosa has all this.

Carbohydrates are the source of energy. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen are essential to keep us energetic and active. Food items such as potato, rice, spaghetti, yams, bread and cereals contain carbohydrates. These are the food items rich in starch.

Dosa has rice – starch – carbohydrates.

Proteins are turned into amino acids by our digestive system before they enter our blood. Proteins contain Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulphur. Proteins are absolutely necessary for the growth of our body and for repairing injured cells.

Dosa has lentils – proteins

Fat is also a source of energy. Just like proteins fats too contain Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. Just by avoiding fat we cannot avoid putting on weight. Carbohydrates and proteins can also turn into fat. So it is necessary eat the right amount of energy containing food. How much energy we can take in? Naturally it depends on how much we can use through physical day-to-day activities and exercise.

To make dosa you use cooking oil. That gives you fat. And you can make it, according to your preference. Make it almost fat free or add more oil to make the dosa crispy, the choice is yours.

Mineral salts such as iron, calcium, sodium and iodine are necessary for different purposes. Iron is necessary for making hemoglobin. Decrease of hemoglobin leads to symptoms of anemia. Especially for pregnant women it is crucial to avoid problems of anemia. Calcium is essential for our bones, teeth and muscles. Nerve cells need sodium and our thyroid glands require iodine.

Dosa has calcium, iron and magnesium.

Fiber is important for good digestion, clear skin and healthy bowel movements.

Dosa has dietary fiber.

You can make different types of dosa. For example, carrot dosa gives you A. If you need more carbohydrates you can make masala dosa. Masala dosa has potatoes and that gives you more starch and more carbohydrates.

Dosa can be a good nutritious healthy meal for young and old including children.

Dosa Instant gives you the details of making dosa in the usual way. You can read about it in this post:

Dosa Recipe Without Instant Ready Mix

If you do not want to spend hours in shopping for the ingredients, soaking, grinding and fermenting…

If you do not want to wait for hours before getting the first delicious dosa piece in your mouth…

You can try instant ready to mix dosa batter powder.

Your dosa will be ready in under two minutes and it will taste as delicious as dosa made through the long process.

To make the dosa batter all you need to do is to add water. Everything else is added in the mixture. No need to shop for anything. No need to soak and grind. No need to wait till the fermenting process is over.

Check out our idli mix and curry powder too. All instant and all delicious time savers.

Watch a video here to see how to make this dosa batter and dosa in under two minutes:

Dosa Batter to Dosa In Under Two Minutes

 The Times of India says:

“LONDON: The one billion pound Indian food industry in UK is showing signs of decline as most young ethnic Asians are not interested in working in kitchens and new immigration rules make hiring chefs from the Indian sub-continent difficult.

There is not a single British town or village which does not have an Indian restaurant, but staff shortage has led to several of them closing down”.

According to the news Children of first generation restaurant owners prefer to take up professions other than those of their parents.  And they don’t want to work in the kitchens.

I can understand that because I hardly spend time in cooking. Just today I had a conversation with another lady who is not been able to pursue a desired course because most of her time is spent in cooking and cleaning.

Not only in developed countries, but even in India where most people love home cooked meal, it is becoming more and more difficult to find time for cooking. At the same time we have to have healthy food rather than go for junk foods.

This has started a trend of instant ready to make items that save time, help you churn out dishes in minutes and are filled with healthy nutrients. In such food items you have to carefully note their shelf life and what type of preservatives are used.

Instant Dosa Mix that is used to make dosa batter in minutes has no artificial preservatives. Whatever is added to the mix is rich nutritious ingredients that help you keep fit. You can preserve the powder for months.

The usual way of making dosa batter involves shopping for rice, while lentil, fenugreek and other flavors that are necessary to make dosa, soaking rice and lentil separately, grinding them to a paste, leaving them aside to ferment and making dosa the next day.

You can read the details here: Dosa Recipe Without Instant Ready Mix

I have been getting more and more questions about mixing the dosa powder to get the dosa batter. If you are new to making dosa you should keep the batter a little thick. Add one and a half cup of water to one cup of dosa mix. If you are experienced you can add two cups of water to one cup of dosa mix and make the batter thin.

You can use a ladle or egg beater to mix the dosa mix and water.

Add the water little by little. Get a paste of the dosa mix and water. Then gradually add more while stirring constantly. This way you won’t get any lumps.

- Take the required quantity of the mix.
- Add two parts water.

- Use a ladle of the type shown in the video.

- Make a circular shape on a flat pan.

- Cook over medium heat.

- Add two tea spoons of cooking oil.

- Fold and flip.

- Serve with a side dish.

The usual side dish for dosa is “chutney” but you can also eat it with sauce, ketchup, pickles, curry powder, etc.