I make dosas atleast once a week for our weekday or weekend brunch. We like to eat dosas with aloo palya and chutney or only with chutneys somethimes or even gojju. The leftover dosa batter I always use that for making onion-chilli uttapam. This week I had some sprouted moongdal, so tried it along with some onion and tomatoes.
These days I have upgraded my dosa recipe from regular rice to brown rice to make it little more nutritious. With sprouts added to it, this will make a complete healthy breakfast.
Recipe for Dose Batter
- 2 cups – brown rice
- 3/4 cups-urad dal
- 1/2 cup – poha/aval/avalakki
- 2 tbsp – channa dal
- 1 tbsp – methi seeds
Soak all the ingredints in enough water for 8 hours. Grind to smooth batter, let it ferment for 8 more hours. Then it will be ready to me made to dosas/pancakes.
For making utthapa/ toppings
- 1/2 cup – sprouted moongdal
- 2tbsp- sweet sliced onions
- 2tbsp- tomatos
- 1tsp of each- chilli powder, cumin powder and salt.
Mix them all together.
- Pour a laddle full of dosa batter on hot griddle/tava. Sprinkle 1 tbsp of mixture in top. It will spread on its own.
- Cover for few seconds, let the bottom side get light brown and cook through.
- Flip for few seconds and serve.
Can eat it like that, we had ours with yougurt mixed with chutney-powder.
Enjoy !

May 12, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Healthy delicious Dosa..
May 12, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Hey liked ur idea of adding sprouted dals to dosa..
May 13, 2008 at 3:58 am
thats really one innovative recipe.
May 13, 2008 at 5:20 am
Hi Madhu
How are you doing ?
Nice recipe..healthy one.
May 13, 2008 at 7:14 am
wow!!it looks so good..never thought of putting it in dosas!!!very healthy too.thanks for thje idea..
May 13, 2008 at 7:45 am
Healthy one
May 13, 2008 at 8:16 am
Good to see u in action again Madhu! The Dosa looks and sounds very nutritious. I had a sprouted moong oothappam at Adigas in Bangalore once, the moong curry was spicy and added a zest to the dosa!
May 13, 2008 at 8:41 am
Looks delicious!! I love the idea of adding sprouted moong! Nice to see you back.
May 13, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Hmm interesting one again, does the moong dal cook through when the dosa is cooking or does it still taste raw?
Since we cook only few minutes on tava, it doesn’t become too soft or tastes raw either. We still get sweet little crunch.
May 14, 2008 at 12:35 am
Long time never saw you Ruchi. Those hesarukalu topped dose looks good. gr8 idea to feed some to children.
May 15, 2008 at 4:23 am
Dosas look so tasty and nutritious. And the pineapple gojju in the other post also looks tasty and delicious!
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May 20, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hi,visiting ur blog for the first time,u have a nice blog!!Sprouted moongdal dosa is good..would love to see u on my blog..
June 18, 2008 at 8:28 am
Hi Madhu,
Does dosa taste good with brown rice? will the taste be different or same? can you please let me know so that I can try it….
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