I live in Finland and I can't find urad dal in the city where I live.
Can I make thin crispy dosa with different beans?
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Sign up to join this communityI live in Finland and I can't find urad dal in the city where I live.
Can I make thin crispy dosa with different beans?
Urad dal is the most common legume used in traditional dosa recipes but it is by no means the only legume used.
Recipes for traditional dosa will sometimes use other high protein legumes such as chana dal. This variety of chickpea, or other chickpea varieties, may be easier to find.
My experience with Scandinavian countries leads me to believe that legumes in general are much less popular. You might have better luck just ordering urad dal online.
Unfortunately a traditional dosa recipe calls for urad dal. But since u can't avail it, u can prepare dosa using wheat flour, or a simple rava dosa using sooji as main ingredient. There is a special dosa called neer dosa which is a regional recipe from Karnataka state of India. It uses only rice luckily. Grind rice along with some fresh shredded coconut and salt to a thin batter. Mix water to make it even more thinner. It shouldn't coat the back of the laddle. It's the correct consistency. Make dosas with it . Swirl the dosa pan rather than spreading the batter by laddle. But you ll get soft dosas only. Hope this helps. Good luck.
I make it with chana dal (split chickpeas) or green split hulled dal as a substitute to urad by choice.