Easy Nachni Pitta Polo ( Ragi Dosa )

Nachni Pitta Polo (in Konkani) literally means Ragi flour Dosa. It makes for an easy, quick breakfast recipe that can also be incorporated for main meals.

Being a millet-based (a.k.a Ragi) dish it is gluten-free, rich in complex carbohydrates, and loaded with the goodness of calcium, protein, and many other nutrients.

I picked up this recipe from my grandmother’s handwritten cookbook. So I don’t exactly know the source of origin and I choose to call it my grandmothers recipe.

A little about my grandmother: She used to love dosa’s but somehow making crisp round dosa’s wasn’t her strongest trait. Since that was one thing she loved and didn’t know to do. I choose to learn and master the art as much as I could to make her happy and see her smile. (Ps: Love can make you do crazy things. )

So here’s the recipe:

Nachni Pitta Polo (Ragi Dosa)

Ingredients:

• Freshly ground Nachni Flour ( Ragi Flour): 1 cup
• Rice flour:1/4 cup
• Curds: 3/4 cup, thick
• Green chilies:2, finely chopped
• Onion:1, finely chopped
• Cumin powder:1tsp
• Salt
• Oil

Procedure:

• Mix the ragi flour, rice flour, and curds in a bowl to a fine paste-like consistency.

• Leave it aside for 20 mins.

• Add in water to make the batter of pouring consistency.

• Then add in the rest of the ingredients like onion, cumin powder, chili, and salt.

• Grease a non-stick pan. Heat the pan till it is nice and hot. Pour the batter to form a dosa.

• Let it cook till the sides leave and then flip it to the other side. ( Note: If the dosa is not cooked properly on one side it will break)

• Once the dosa is ready, serve it with chutney.

Note:

• One can easily replace the rice flour with wheat flour or Rava.
• You can use 50 % rice flour and 50% rava instead of complete rice flour.
• Chickpea flour can also be used instead of rice flour.