Sambar Cheera Dosa

Sambar Cheera Dosa is a Kochi GSB Konkani style healthy, tasty and spicy dosa made with home grown spinach called sambar cheera. Sambar cheera also known as ceylon spinach /water leaf  is rich in minerals, vitamin A and C and this spinach is also good for diabetics.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Sambar Cheera Dosa.

Ingredients:-

Sambar Cheera leaves.  -1 cup finely chopped
Raw Rice.                      -1 and 1/2 cup
Dry Red chillies.            - 6
Grated Coconut.             - 3/4 cup
Turmeric powder.           - a pinch
Salt.                                - to taste
Coconut oil.                    - for roasting

Instructions:-

1). Wash and soak raw rice in water for 2 hours.

2). Wash the leaves of sambar cheera /water leaf /ceyon spinach and finely chop the leaves. 

Sambar Cheera / Ceylon Spinach / Water Leaf

 

 

 

 

Method:-

1). Grind the soaked raw rice along with grated coconut, dry red chillies and turmeric powder to a smooth paste adding very little water.Transfer the ground batter to a vessel.

2). Add required salt into the ground batter and mix well. Add little water and make a semi thick batter of pouring consistency like normal idli batter.

3). Add finely chopped leaves of sambar cheera into the ground batter in the vessel and mix well.

4). Heat a non stick dosa tawa on medium flame.

5). Pour a ladle of batter on hot tawa and spread the batter on it using the back of the ladle and make a thin dosa.Sprinkle little coconut oil on all side of the dosa.

6). Cover and cook dosa on medium low flame.

7). Flip the dosa with a flat spatula to cook the other side.

8). When both sides are roasted well, transfer the sambar cheera dosa to a serving plate.Make dosa with the remaining batter.

A very tasty, healthy and spicy Sambar Cheera Dosa is ready to enjoy.