Ravva Dosa with Potato Carrot curry

Once upon a time when I was in India, we used to live in an apartment complex. Once a year, the apartment committee used to give breakfast to all the apartment holders and then meetings to decide important things like maintainance fee and all. On one of those occassions, I was introduced to "Ravva Dosa". I served this dosa with Potato and Carrot curry and Sambar
                     I never had ravva dosa before, but that day the chef making it right there and serving hot dosa was amazing. And also that day they served Grape juice...one of the most amazing grape juices' I ever had. I will enter the recipe some day

Ravva Dosa (Indian Semolina Crepe)

Ravva Dosa

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup Upma Ravva
2. 1 cup Maida (All purpose flour)
3. 1/2 cup Rice flour
4. 1/2-3/4 teaspoon each of salt, cooking soda, cumin
5. 1-11/2 tablespoon each of finely chopped onions, coriander
6. 1 teaspoon or less of finely chopped green chilly, ginger
7. Oil for frying

Sift together Upma Ravva, all-purpose flour and rice flour. Mix in salt and cooking soda and mix water to make a thin batter. Set aside overnight. Mix all the other ingredients and add some more water to make into a thin batter. Heat a griddle and laddle about 1/3 cup of batter in the middle and move the griddle in such a way that the batter spreads. Drizzle oil over the edges of the dosa and let fry for 3-4 minutes. Turn and fry for a couple of minutes. Serve hot with Sambar and Aalo carrot curry

Aalo Gaajar Sallan (Simple potato, carrot curry)

Aalo gaajar curry

Ingredients:

1. 2 medium large potatos peeled and cubed
2. 2 medium large carrots peeled and cubed
3. 1/2 cup red onions sliced
4. 2 tablespoons oil+ 1 tablespoon oil
5. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, urad dal, mustard seeds, turmeric
6. 2 red chillies broken
7. 1 green chilly chopped
8. few curry leaves

In a pressure cooker heat 2 tbsps oil and fry the onions till tender. Add carrot and potato cubes and add 1/2-3/4 cupwater and turmeric and pressure cook for 2 whistles. In a pan heat the remaining oil and fry the cumin, mustard seeds and urad dal for a couple of minutes. Add red and green chilly pieces and curry leaves and fry till they start to splutter. Add the potato and carrot to this and simmer for 5 minutes after adding salt. Garnish with cilantro and serve with Dosa or Roti

You may also want to check Simple potato curry,

poon sambar powder (made above) (or store bought)
In a pressure cooker cook the dal for 3-4 whistles with 11/2-2 cups of water and turmeric and chopped tomato. After the steam escapes open the cooker and mash the dalor better grind it to a paste. Add salt and all the vegetables and tamarind juice and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes. In a pan heat the oil and fry the cumin, mustard seeds and dried red chilly, garlic if using and curry leaves till they start to splutter. Cut the heat and add the dal to the pan or the tempering to the dal. Add sambar powder. Bring to boil again and boil for further 10 minutes. Garnish with cilantro and check if all the vegetables are cooked else simmer covered for a little bit more. Enjoy with Ravva Dosa, Plain dosa or Idli