CulinaryMélange

A little more than a week ago I completed my first Daring Kitchen’s challenge: Indian Dosas.

This month’s host is Debyi from The Healthy Vegan Kitchen.

Up to then I had never cooked Indian but it turned out that the main difference to what I usually cook are the spices, so I didn’t encounter many difficulties. The main challenge was to cook this dish with only one hotplate, one frying pan and one saucepan. You find the original recipe and instructions over at The Healthy Vegan Kitchen. As I cooked only for myself, I made some adjustments (e.g. I didn’t make the sauce at all but adjusted the filling instead), but kept it all vegan:

equipment: frying pan, saucepan

Indian Dosas

Pancakes
30 g whole wheat flour
80 ml water
a pinch of salt
a pinch of curry
olive oil

Filling
1/4 onion
1 middle sized carrot
1/4 green bell pepper
1/4 tsp. cumin
1/4 tsp. oregano
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. curcuma
1 medium sized tomato
1 Tbsp. tomato paste
200 g cooked chickpeas

1. Heat saucepan, add veggies and spices and cook until soft.
2. Mash part of the chickpeas and add to the saucepan, add tomato paste.
3. Set aside the filling and start with pancakes:
4. Combine all ingredients and whisk until smooth.
5. Heat a frying pan with a little olive oil.
6. Make thin pancakes with approx. 2 Tbsp. of batter for each one.
7. Fill the pancakes with some filling and serve.

Easy, isn’t it? Only after having eaten the Dosas already I noticed that I completely had forgotten the cucumber-topping. With that it would’ve undoubtly tasted even besser.

Thank you, Debyi, for this great challenge :)