Millet is gaining more popularity nowadays. Also including millets in your diet, is very healthy too. This tomato dosa with Kuthravali millet also called Barnyard millet in English|Odalu in kannada|Jhangora in Hindi, is a healthy variety of millet, helps to reduce cholesterol, and is also good for diabetics too. You can try out this dosa with samai and varagu too. Somehow thinai dosai gives little dry dosa. You can make this with regular idli rice or ponni parboiled rice too. I have seen many make Instant tomato dosa using rice flour. I haven’t tried that yet. When you are running out of time for fermentation, you try this easy no fermentation dosa recipe. During my vacation to Chennai, my sister made this for me but with normal idli rice. I thought I will replace rice with millet. It turned out very nice and everyone loved it. Check out other no fermentation dosa recipes from Jeyashris kitchen, Sorakkai dosa, Thengai dosa, Moong dal dosa, Karacha maavu dosa. Also, check out our complete collection of Millet recipes.
Wash and soak the millet, toor dal, urad dal, and poha together for 3 hours. Even if you want to make this for morning breakfast can soak this overnight too.Drain the water and grind this along with red chili. Pulse it once in the mixie and add the tomato. Just roughly cut the tomatoes and add them to this and grind this into a fine paste.
Add salt and also finely chop the onions and add to the batter. Adding onion is optional.Mix the batter well and let this stay for 15 minutes. This step is optional. You can make it immediately too.
Heat a tawa and when it is hot, keep the flame low. Pour a ladle full of dosa batter and spread the dosa into a round shape using the back of the ladle.Once done on one side flip to the other side.
Serve dosa immediately. Coconut chutney will go very well with this dosa.
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