Thavala Dosai

Ingredients:

Rice                        -  3 cups

Thoor dal                -  3 table spoons
Bengal gram dal      -  3 table spoons
Black gram dal        -  3 table spoons
Jeera                       -  1 table spoon
Pepper                    -  1 tea spoon
Asafoitida                -  1 tea spoon
Curd                        -  1 cup
Green chilies            -  2 - 3 nos
Ginger                     -  1 inch
Cooking oil              -  2 table spoons
Mustard seeds         -  1 table spoon

1.  Wash the dals and rice together, dry in a shaddy place and coarse powder it.
2.  Soak the powder in water along with salt, asafoitida, curd, jeera and pepper for 5 - 6 hrs.
3.  Add finely chopped green chilies and grated ginger to the batter.
4.  Heat oil in a kadai, add the mustard seeds and once it crackles add it to the batter and mix well.
5.  Now heat a tawa and pour 2 ladles of the thavala dosai batter and make thick dosa.
6.  Pour 1 tea spoon on oil around the thavala dosai and cover it with a lid.
7.  After a few mins turn the dosai, pour another tea spoon of oil and cover and allow it to cook.
8.  Do the same procedure with the rest of the batter.
9.  Serve hot with milagaipodi and tomato chutney.