Pesarattu | Moong Dal Dosa
Pesarattu is a protein rich dosa made by grinding green moong dal along with spices into a batter, the batter is apread on a dosa tawa and cooked like dosa. Pesarattu is a good & healthy alternate tiffin that is relished with spicy chutney. Pesarattu Recipe is explained in this post with step by step pictures and video.
Servings7 dosas
Ingredients
- 1 cup green moong dal
- 2 tablespoon raw rice
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 2 nos green chillies
- 1 inch ginger piece
- salt to taste
- water as required
- a tiny pinch hing optional
- onion chopped finely
Instructions
- To a mixing bowl add 1 cup green moong dal and 2 tablespoon raw rice. Pick any stones and discard if any.
- Soak in water for 6-8 hours. Set aside and keep it covered.
- Rinse well atleast for 2 times.
- Now add it mixer along with 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, 2 nos green chillies and 1 inch ginger, required salt. Add little water needed to grind it to a thick batter.
- Grind it a smooth batter like idli dosa batter consistency.
- Transfer this to a mixing bowl. Rinse the mixer with little water and add it.
- Adjust water and make batter pourable.
- Heat dosa tawa - sprinkle water to check. If there is a sharp shh sound then the tawa is ready.
- Pour 2 small laddles of dosa batter and spread it in concentric circles as shown. Sprinkle 2 tablespoon raw onion(optional), drizzle oil.
- Slightly press the onion so that it gets stuck to the batter. Cook until it turns golden.
- Then flip over and cook for few seconds.
- Now flip over, fold and serve. You can make thick soft dosas too.
- Pesarattu is ready to be served.
Video
Notes
- You can grind the batter coarsely and make pesarattu thick like adai too. We like it a bit thin and slightly crispy so grind it smooth.
- Adding ginger is a must we all know adding ginger with green gram or any bean/dhal variety helps in good digestion.
- Adjust green chillies according to your spice level.
- I did not add hing, you can add a pinch to the batter if you like.
Nutrition Facts
Pesarattu | Moong Dal Dosa
Amount Per Serving (50 g)
Calories 126
Calories from Fat 5
% Daily Value*
Fat 0.5g1%
Saturated Fat 0.1g1%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.1g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g
Sodium 561mg24%
Potassium 406mg12%
Carbohydrates 24g8%
Fiber 5g21%
Sugar 3g3%
Protein 8g16%
Vitamin A 38IU1%
Vitamin C 3mg4%
Calcium 47mg5%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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