This Carrot Coin Dosai is the kid’s friendly carrot flavored coin dosa/uttapam. The perfect kid-friendly lunch box – healthy and delicious, too.
Carrot Coin Dosai
The third recipe that I am going to post under the theme Lunch Box Recipes is the Coin dosa, precisely Carrot Coin Dosa. With idli/dosa batter, you can make zillion recipes, and one among them is this carrot dosa. As kiddo likes mess-free, grab and go dishes, I prepare small dosa like coins – hence, the name. He calls this kutti dosai.
I bookmarked this carrot dosa recipe from Nalini’s cooking last year, and I tried it right away. I did modify the recipe as per our liking, errr kiddo’s liking. :-)
In fact, I skipped the addition of onions and tamarind while making the carrot paste and included cilantro instead. We all love this carrot and cilantro flavored dosa. It has become one staple at our household. Like mushroom paniyaram, you prepare the carrot mix/paste first and mix it with dosa batter and make these dosas.
If you are following me on IG, you would have seen the making of these coin dosas.
I do not carry mini uttapam pan/tawa. I just use my regular dosa tawa to prepare this dosa. And I use the one tbsp measure spoon to scoop the batter. I drop about 1 tbsp batter on the tawa, and I don’t spread them out. So basically I make about six to seven coin dosas /uttapam at a time like below.
Check out the other lunch box recipes that I posted under this theme this year and last year,
And you can find other recipes under the category lunch box recipes. Now here comes this carrot dosa recipe.
Carrot Coin Dosai
Ingredients:
- Idli/Dosa batter – 2 cups
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Oil – as required for preparing dosa.
- Water – 2 tbsps to soak the red chili.
To Grind:
- Grated Carrot – 1 cup heaped. (I used two medium carrots)
- Red chili – 2
- Cilantro – 2 tbsp
To Temper:
- Oil – 2 tsps
- Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
- Urad Dal – 1 tsp
- Channa Dal – 1 tsp
- Hing – ¼ Tsp
Prep – Work:
- Wash the carrots, peel the skin and grate them.
- Soak the red chilies in water until you grate the carrot or for about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Chop the cilantro and set aside.
Preparing the Carrot Paste:
- Grind together the carrot, soaked red chili with water and cilantro together into a smooth paste.
Preparing the tempering:
- Heat the tadka vessel and add the oil.
- Once the oil is hot add the mustard seeds, urad dal, hing and channa dal.
- As it starts to splutter, turn off the heat.
Preparing Carrot Dosa Batter and the Coin Dosa:
- Add the ground paste, salt, and the tempering to two cups of dosa batter and mix well.
- Make sure the carrot paste is well incorporated.
- Now heat the tawa or the griddle and drop about 1 tbsp of dosa batter on the tawa. I usually prepare 6 to 7 at a time.
- Spread a little bit of oil around the edges and let it cook for the minute.
- Then flip the dosa and allow it cook for a 1 minute or so.
- That’s it. Now remove the dosas and similarly prepare the coin dosa with the remaining batter.
Serve hot with chutney or sambar.
Notes:
- Make sure the dosa batter is not cold.
- Also prepare the dosa over medium heat, so that the dosa doesn’t turn brown.
- Adjust the salt and red chili as per your preference.
- You can include onions while preparing the carrot paste.
- Instead of coin dosa, you can prepare regular dosa with this batter or uttapam with this batter as well.
Carrot Coin Dosai
Ingredients
To Grind
- 1 cup Grated Carrot 1 cup heaped, I used two medium carrots
- 2 Red chili
- 2 tbsp Cilantro
To Temper
- 2 tsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 tsp Urad Dal
- 1 tsp Channa Dal
- ¼ tsp Hing
Instructions
Prep - Work
- Wash the carrots, peel the skin and grate them.
- Soak the red chilies in water until you grate the carrot or for about 5 to 10 minutes.
- Chop the cilantro and set aside.
Preparing the Carrot Paste
- Grind together the carrot, soaked red chili with water and cilantro together into a smooth paste.
Preparing the tempering
- Heat the tadka vessel and add the oil.
- Once the oil is hot add the mustard seeds, urad dal, hing and channa dal.
- As it starts to splutter, turn off the heat.
Preparing the Carrot Dosa Batter and the Coin Dosa
- Add the ground paste, salt, and the tempering to two cups of dosa batter and mix well.
- Make sure the carrot paste is well incorporated.
- Now heat the tawa or the griddle and drop about 1 tbsp of dosa batter on the tawa. I usually prepare 6 to 7 at a time.
- Spread a little bit of oil around the edges and let it cook for the minute.
- Then flip the dosa and allow it cook for a 1 minute or so.
- That's it. Now remove the dosas and similarly prepare the coin dosa with the remaining batter.
- Serve hot with chutney or sambar.
Notes
- Make sure the dosa batter is not cold.
- Also prepare the dosa over medium heat, so that the dosa doesn't turn brown.
- Adjust the salt and red chili as per your preference.
- You can include onions while preparing the carrot paste.
- Instead of coin dosa, you can prepare regular dosa with this batter or uttapam with this batter as well.
- Adapted from Nalini’s Cooking.
Nutrition
I am not a nutritionist. The nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. It varies depending upon the product types or brands.
Sending this recipe to BM#78. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this BM.
Also sending this to Srivalli’s Kid’s Delight event, guest hosted by Priya Srinivasan, themed on Kids Lunch Box Recipes.
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such a cute dosa srividhya! so easy for the kids to pick it up and eat, lovely!
Thanks Priya.
So nice recipes congratulation for good performance.
Thank you so much.
Another tempting idea. I love all your posts under this theme.
:-) Thanks
these look so airy and light!
Thank you.
Those mini carrot dosas are so cute and looks so tempting too.
Thanks Sapana.
Yumm, these look like they’re so delicious! Thank you for sharing the ingredients and instructions, I’m definitely going to try it!!
Thanks a lot.
Such cute looking chinna dosai with a pretty shade of orange… lovely idea!
Thanks. :-)
I’m sure even adults would love these cute little dosai in their lunch box. Lovely recipe.
Oh yeah :-) Thanks Mayuri.
such beauties , my kind of food, when you make it in that bite size offerings, bookmarked
Thanks Pradanya. :-)
Oh wow , so cute ! I love these bite sized Dosa’s , in fact whenever I see the mini version of food , I really like it . Kids naturally like it and we adults can portion control . Good pick .
Thanks a lot Vaishali.
This looks too cute..great way of including veggies in kids lunch
Thanks Lathiya.
Mini beauties.. Will love to have plateful of it
:-) Thanks