Sunday 28 July 2019

Kulitha Polo (Horse gram Dosa)


Horse gram is called Kulithu in Konkani. Kulitha Polo / Horse gram Dosa is a Konkani breakfast dish served with spicy mango pickle or with hot and spicy chutney. Kulitha polo recipe is explained with step by step method and photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Kulitha Polo/ Horse gram Dosa.

Ingredients:-

Raw Rice.                   -1 cup
Horse gram (Kulithu) -1/2 cup
Grated Coconut.         -1 cup
Dry Red chillies.        -6
Black Pepper.             - 1tsp
Salt.                            -1tsp
Oil.                             - for roasting dosa

Instructions:-

1). Wash Raw Rice and soak in water for 5 hours. Drain the soaked water and keep aside.

2). Wash Horse gram and soak in water for 5 hours. Drain the soaked water and keep aside.

3). Soak dry Red chillies and Black Pepper corns together in little water for 1 hour. Drain the soaked water and keep aside.

4). Grind soaked Horse gram along with freshly grated Coconut, soaked Red chillies and soaked Black Pepper corns to a fine paste and transfer the ground Horse gram batter to a vessel.

5). Grind Raw Rice to a fine batter adding very little water. Transfer the ground Rice batter to the same vessel.

6). Add required Salt and mix both the batter in the vessel together with your hands. 


7). Close the batter vessel with a lid and keep aside to ferment the batter for 8 hours or overnight.

fermented Horse gram batter

Method:-

1). Heat a dosa tawa on medium flame and apply little oil with a oil brush When it is hot sprinkle little water and wipe the hot tawa with a clean cloth.

2). Mix the fermented Horse gram dosa batter with a ladle and take a ladle of batter.

3). Pour the dosa batter on the tawa and spread it on tawa immediately with the back of the ladle and make thin round dosa. (You can also make thick round horse gram dosa with the batter)


4). Cover the dosa tawa with a lid and cook dosa on low flame till the base of the dosa is roasted well.


5). Open the lid and spread little oil around the sides and over the dosa with a oil brush.

6). Flip the dosa with a flat spatula to roast the other side.

7). When both sides of the dosa are roasted well fold the roasted dosa to one side
 and remove the well roasted Horse gram dosa from hot tawa with a flat spatula.

8).Transfer the Horse gram dosa to a serving plate.Repeat the process and make similar dosas with the remaining batter. Kulitha polo / Horse gram Dosa is ready to serve with spicy mango pickle.

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Note:-
Left over Horse gram dosa batter can be stored in the refrigerator for further use.

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