Alagar Kovil Dosai is the important Prasadam ( Offering ) to Lord Kalalagar , a form of Lord Krishna in the Alagarkovil , a place in the Temple city Madurai of Southern part of India.
Dosai is a type of pancake made from fermented batter. The batter is made from parboiled rice and blackgram. Dosa is a popular dish from the Soutern India , now has become a well known dish to the world.
Whole Black Gram with skin - 1 cup
whole Pepper corn - 1 tsp
Fresh / Dry Ginger - 2'' piece
Wash and soak the rice for 3 hour.
Soak the Bengal gram for one hour.
Grind the Bengal gram to soft and fluffy batter for 20 - 30 minutes.
Coarse grind the pepper and cumin and add the batter.
Pound the ginger and add to the batter .
Mix the rice and black gram batter together. Add in salt and mix well. Let the batter ferment.
In the temple kitchen , they will fry the dosa with lot of ghee ( clarified butter ).
Heat the tawa / griddle , pour two ladle full of batter and spread little to make thick dosa.
Sprinkle a spoon of oil and cook for a minute then flip over and cook the other side.
Repeat with the remaining batter.
Instead of oil , you can sprinkle ghee for the dosa.
If we fry the dosa in ghee like the temple kitchen we can store the dosa for a week.
We had the dosa with sambar and coconut chutney.
Alagar Kovil Dosai are ready to be served.
