Red Spinach Dosa/ Tambide Bajje Polo/ Chuvanna Cheera Dosa

Red spinach dosa / Chuvanna cheera dosa / Red Amaranth dosa is a konkani style Tambide bajje polo made with red amaranth leaves, raw rice and coconut and can be served hot for breakfast or dinner. Fermentation is not needed to prepare this red spinach dosa.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare instant Red Spinach Dosa / Red Amaranth Dosa / Tambide Bajje Polo / Chuvanna Cheera Dosa.

Ingredients:-

Red amaranth leaves.-1 cup chopped
Raw rice.            -2 cup
Coconut.             -1/2
Dry red chillies.  -6 or 8
Turmeric powder.-a pinch
Tamarind.            -a small piece
Asafoetida.         -1/2 tsp
Salt.                    -to taste

Instructions:-

1). Wash red amaranth leaves with stem in water. Drain and finely chop them and keep aside.

2). Wash and soak raw rice in water for 6 hours. Drain and keep aside.

3). In a mixie jar add grated coconut, dry red chillies, turmeric powder and a small marble size tamarind and grind to a smooth paste. Then add soaked raw rice into the jar and grind all together to a smooth batter. Add required water if needed and make a thick dosa batter consistency. Transfer ground dosa batter to a vessel.Add finely chopped red amaranth leaves, asafoetida and required salt into the ground batter and mix well. Instant dosa batter is ready to make red spinach dosa.

Method:

1). Heat a cast iron dosa tawa on medium flame and apply little coconut oil on it. Lower the flame and pour a ladle full of batter on tawa and spread the batter on it using the back of the ladle and make a thin dosa. Cover the dosa with a lid and cook on medium flame.

2). Pour little oil on all sides of the dosa. When one side of the dosa is cooked well. Flip the dosa with a flat spatula to cook the other side.

3). Remove the cooked red spinach dosa from tawa using flat spatula and transfer it to a serving plate.

4). Repeat the same process with the remaining dosa batter. You can keep the dosa batter in the fridge for further use.

Konkani style Tambide bajje polo / Red spinach dosa / Red amaranth dosa / Chuvanna cheera dosa is ready to serve hot for breakfast or dinner.