Spicy Cabbage Dosa- Sanna Polo

Konkani cuisine has delicious, spicy, tiny dosas, known as Sanna Polo. This savoury, vegan dosas are served as a side dish for lunch & dinner.  A simple, spicy rice and toor dal batter is made by grinding together rice, grated coconut, dried red chillies, tamarind & salt. To this batter chopped cabbage and onions are added to make delicious dosas.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup finely shredded cabbage

1/2 cup finely chopped onion - 1 medium sized onion

1 cup rice - any medium grained rice

1/4 cup Toor dal

3/4 cup grated coconut (the more you add the better, softer dosas you make)

6-8 dried red chillies

1 lemon sized tamarind

Salt to taste

Oil for frying the dosas

Method:

Wash and Soak rice and toor dal for a minimum of 30 minutes.

During this time you could keep ready grated coconut, wash well & then finely chop cabbage and onion. Drain out all the water from cabbage using a strainer and keep them aside.

After 30 minutes of soaking, wash rice and dal well, drain all the water & grind it along with grated coconut, tamarind, salt, dried red chillies into a smooth paste using just as much water as needed. We need a semi-thick batter in the end.

Transfer this ground batter into a bowl, add in finely chopped cabbage, onion and mix in well.

Make sure cabbage, onions do not have any water in them. It’ll make the batter watery. We want a semi-thick batter in the end. If your batter gets watery, you’ll not be able to make dosas.

And if your batter is too dry/thick even after you mix in cabbage, onions into it, add 1/2 cup of water to obtain a semi-thick consistency.

Check & adjust salt.

Then heat up a frying pan, once it's hot, add a laddle full of batter onto the pan. Spread it out a little using the back of the laddle. Make small, round, thin dosas.

Fry them closed until they change colour completely on one side.

Drizzle a tablespoon of oil all over the dosa, flip it and cook it on medium flame until it cooks completely on the other side. You know it by the change in colour of the dosa.

Remove the dosas off the frying pan, serve them hot as a side dish for lunch, dinner.

Similarly, make dosas using remaining batter.

Serving Suggestion: 

Serve these dosas hot along with curd rice, lemon rice for lunch, dinner as a side dish.

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