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Set Dosa, Home made set dosa batter, Set dosa recipe

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Recipe for spongy white set dosa recipe. Made with rice and atukulu / poha. Makes for an excellent breakfast. With step by step pictures.

The thing I like about set dosa is that its really so soft and so good for dunking in chutney or kurma / sagu. Its common in restaurants here in Bangalore and the name set dosa kind of intrigued me. At first, I just thought it was a set of uthappam served with kurma. But everytime I ate it, I dint know how they could get the dosa so soft and spongy. Later on, I learnt that the batter itself is completely different. The softness of the batter comes from the atukulu or poha (Aval). Also the addition of yogurt makes the batter so soft and so delicious. Its usually served with vegetable sagu / kurma. This is a very famous dish from the udipi region of karnataka. Here is my way of doing it.

We will need a cup of idly rice (I used salem car rice). Use idly rice only. Raw rice does not work very well for this recipe. Idly rice is easily available in grocery shops these days. We will need quarter cup of unpolished whole white urad dal, half a cup of poha (aval/atukulu) and half a teaspoon of fenugreek seeds. To know in detail about the ingredients that we usually use for making idli dosa batter, Check out my post on how to make soft idlis.

Wash all the ingredients together 2-3 times in running water to get rid of dust and dirt. Soak the ingredients in a bowl with lots of water for 2 hours. Drain the water and set aside.

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Grind the ingredients to a smooth paste. While grinding add half a cup of yogurt and a cup of water. The batter needs to be ground to a really fine smooth paste. If the mixie wont budge, grind the batter in 2-3 batches.

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Once the batter is ready, cover the batter bowl with a lid and let it to ferment in a warm draft free place for 12 hours. If the place where you live is cold, leave it inside the oven with the pilot light on. After the fermentation, Set Dosa batter should have increased in volume and should look foamy. Mix in the salt. The batter is ready. We are ready to do dosas.

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Heat a dosa griddle/pan until medium hot. Apply few drops of oil on the griddle. Ladle the batter and pour it onto the griddle. Do not spread the batter like you do normal dosa. Spread it ever so lightly if necessary. Lots of holes will start forming on the top of the dosa. Cover the griddle with a lid and let it cook for 40 seconds on low medium flame. This dosa is usually cooked only on one side.

Note: If you feel the dosa is sticky, flip the dosa and cook for 20 seconds.

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The dosas are ready when the top is completely cooked and the bubbles have settled.

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Remove the dosa from the griddle and repeat with the rest of the batter. Serve the dosa hot with vegetable sagu / kurma or a spicy kaara chutney.

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Recipe for spongy white set dosa recipe. Made with rice and atukulu / poha. Makes for an excellent breakfast.
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Recipe type: Breakfast, dosa
Cuisine: South Indian
Serves: makes 15 dosas
Ingredients
  • Measurements used - 1 cup = 250ml
For grinding batter
  • 1 cup idly rice
  • ¼ cup unpolished whole white urad dal
  • ½ cup poha (aval / atukulu)
  • ½ teaspoon fenugreek seeds
  • ½ cup curd
  • 1 cup water
Other ingredients
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • Oil for griddle while making dosa
Instructions
  1. Wash all the ingredients together 2-3 times in running water to get rid of dust and dirt. Soak the ingredients in a bowl with lots of water for 2 hours. Drain the water and set aside.
  2. Grind the ingredients to a smooth paste. While grinding add half a cup of yogurt and a cup of water. The batter needs to be ground to a really fine smooth paste. If the mixie wont budge, grind the batter in 2-3 batches.
  3. Once the batter is ready, cover the batter bowl with a lid and let it to ferment in a warm draft free place for 12 hours. If the place where you live is cold, leave it inside the oven with the pilot light on. After the fermentation, Set Dosa batter should have increased in volume and should look foamy. Mix in the salt. The batter is ready.
  4. Heat a dosa griddle/pan until medium hot. Apply few drops of oil on the griddle. Ladle the batter and pour it onto the griddle. Cover the griddle with a lid and let it cook for 40 seconds on low medium flame.
  5. Remove the dosa from the griddle and repeat with the rest of the batter. Serve the dosa hot with vegetable sagu / kurma or a spicy kaara chutney.
Notes
Store the left over batter in the refrigerator and use within 2 days.

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Suguna Vinodh

I'm Suguna Vinodh aka Kannamma. I love south Indian food and I am passionate about baking. My Favorite things include my Wusthof knife, Coffee, Ilayaraja, Tamil and beaches. I love Jacques Pepin and Julia Child.

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  1. Hi Suguna, for some reason my batter just did not rise. I used the normal mixie for grinding and followed the recipe as mentioned. I wonder where I went wrong. So I used the batter for making vegetable paniyaram’s instead and it turned out quite good. We had that with the carrot chutney which was yum.

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      • I live in Mumbai where its quite warm at the moment. The Idli batter and crispy dosa batter, both of your recipes, rose beautifully last week in this weather. I mixed the set dosa batter with my hand nicely prior to keeping it to ferment. Wondering if this was the reason for the batter not rising. Anyway, I’m glad that it did’nt go to waste as we made paniyarams which my husband enjoyed.

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  2. Hi Suguna,

    Thank you for the recipe.

    I am assuming that when it says wash and soak the ingredients , the curd is not part of the soaking and is used only in the grinding stage.

    Also I live in Mumbai and it’s monsoon season now. So super humod. Any alterations you would recommend?

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  3. Madam ,
    We r from Andhra Pradesh West godavari.
    In our city there’s lot of Humidity and hot. In these conditions after grinding put yhe batter for 7 hours outside. BUT THE BATTER BECOMES VERY VERY VERY SOUR. AGAIN WE TRY WITHOUT CURD THEN ALSO REPEAT THE SAME .

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  4. Hi Suguna ,

    How long should we wait for it to ferment? We live in the US. Thank you, will try and let you know how it turned out.

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  6. Hi

    I made this dosa it was great but I felt the top layer is sticky if I accidentally touched the dosa on top it sticks

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  7. Hi suguna , i am Tina from Bombay, i came across your foda batter post by chance n lmade it n lovedddd it . Set dosa is one of my favourites n i am unable to make it right . I tried your recipe, I ground the batter in a stone grinder n left it to fermant , its quite sour n not enough holes when the cook it . Pls help

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