Chawal-Chana dal Chila (Rice and split Bengal gram/lentil Crape or Dosa)

• Servings: 3
• soaking time: 4-6 hours.
• resting time: 1-2 hours
• Preparation time: 5 minutes.
• Cooking time: 3-4 minutes each chila.
• Total time: 9-10 minutes.

It is gloomy lock down Covid-19; facing a harsh & infectious climate, as we don’t have better option other than accept it; here is an idea to cook one of the popular breakfast dish from north India to south India.

“Chawal Chana dal Chila/cheela (Rice and split Bengal gram Crape or Dosa)”; for this recipe it is needed to grind the soaked Rice and split Bengal gram/lentil.

In Japan, mixer grinder is not like India. It takes much more time than Indian grinder.

My husband helped me to do the same; as nowadays all people are working from home, husbands take a lot more interest in regular house hold work; the spicy instant crape is so delicious and perfect for this hard time…

Ingredients:

• Chana dal (split Bengal gram): 100 gm.
• Boiled rice/par boiled rice: 200 gm.
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Chilli powder: ½ teaspoon
• Turmeric powder: ½ teaspoon
• Garam masala powder: ½ teaspoon
• Sesame seed: 1 tablespoon
• Green chilli: 2-3 no. (As per taste)
• Onion: 1 no. (Medium size)
• Coriander leaves: 50 gm.
• Ghee (clarified butter)/Cooking oil /butter/: 50 gm

Preparation:

1.  Soak rice and chana dal with double quantity of water for 4-6 hours hrs or overnight. Grind the rice and dal mixture along with equal amount of water to a very smooth batter in a ‘mixer grinder or Dosa grinder’. Add salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder; mix well. Keep aside for minimum2-3 hours before use.
2. Chop onion, green chilli, and coriander leaves into very fine; put into batter, mix well.

Method:

1. Stir the batter with ladle, if required add some water to get the consistency so that it can be spread easily on the Dosa tawa.
2. Take a traditional Dosa tawa/non stick Dosa pan; apply few drops of oil on it. Pour ladleful of batter on the centre of the tawa and spread quickly in circular motion.
3. Let it cook from one side, spread ½ teaspoon of butter/ghee on the side and top. Wait for few minutes, the edges gets light brown in colour and also get lifted from the edge, flip it and cook both sides.
4. Transfer into serving plate ‘Chawal Chana dal Chila (Rice and split Bengal gram/lentil Crape or Dosa)’is ready to serve along with chutney.
5. Yummy-

Chawal-Chana dal Chila (Rice and split Bengal gram/lentil Crape or Dosa) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.