Palak Dosa / Konkani style Spinach Dosa

Palak Dosa is a Konkani style spicy spinach dosa made with tender palak leaves adding raw rice, grated coconut, dry red chillies and turmeric powder. Palak dosa can be served for breakfast or dinner without any side dish.Palak Dosa recipe is with step by step photos.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare Palak Dosa.
Ingredients:
Tender Palak Leaves -2 cups chopped
Raw Rice.                 -2 cup
Grated coconut.        -1 cup
Dry Red chillies.       -6
Turmeric powder.      -1/4 tsp
Tamarind.                  -a small piece
Salt.                           - to taste
Coconut oil.- for roasting palak dosa.

Method:
1). Soak raw rice in water for 3 hours. Drain and add the soaked raw rice in a mixer grinder and grind it along with grated coconut, dry red chillies and turmeric powder to a smooth and little thick batter adding little water. Transfer the ground dosa batter to a vessel.

2). Soak a small piece of tamarind in 1/4 cup of water in a small bowl for 5 minutes. Squeeze the soaked tamarind in water. Add the sqeezed tamarind water into the ground dosa batter and mix well.

3). Wash and finely chop palak leaves and add it into the ground dosa batter in the vessel.

4). Mix the finely chopped palak leaves into the ground dosa batter. Add required salt and mix well..

5)..Mix everything using a ladle.Fermentation is not needed. Dosa batter is ready for making  palak dosa.

6). Heat a cast iron dosa tawa on medium flame and apply little coconut oil on hot dosa tawa.Take a ladle of batter and pour it on hot tawa and spread it using the back of the ladle and make a round palak dosa.

7). Cover the palak dosa with a lid and cook on low flame for 2-3 minutes.

 

8). Open the lid and apply little coconut oil all over the palak dosa using an oil brush.

 

9)..Flip the palak dosa using a flat spatula to cook the other side for 2-3 minutes on low flame until little crisp.

 

10). Once the palak dosa is roasted well on both sides remove it from tawa using a flat spatula and transfer to a serving plate. Repeat the process and make crispy palak dosa with the remaining ground palak dosa batter.

 

You can keep the remaining ground palak dosa batter in the refrigerator for next day use. The ground palak dosa batter will stay good in the refrigerator for a few more days.Crispy  Palak Dosa is ready to serve hot without any side dish for breakfast or dinner. 

 

Try the recipe and enjoy the konkani style palak dosa.