Cuisine: Tamil Nadu
Category: Breakfast
Prep: 15 min
Cook: 20 min
Serves: 4
Difficulty: Medium
🌿 Vegetarian
Tamil Nadu dosa variant — paneer dosa made with paneer and spice filling.
Ingredients
- - 2 cups dosa batter
- - Oil or ghee for frying
- - Filling ingredients as required
- - Coconut chutney to serve
- - Sambar to serve
Method
- Make dosa batter: Use well-fermented regular dosa batter.
- Make paneer filling: Crumble 200g paneer. Heat 1 tbsp oil, add half tsp cumin seeds, 1 finely chopped onion, 1 chopped green chilli and cook 4 minutes. Add crumbled paneer, half tsp turmeric, half tsp red chilli powder and salt. Mix and cook 3 minutes. Cool slightly.
- Heat tawa: Heat a flat tawa on medium-high heat.
- Oil the tawa: Drizzle half tsp oil and spread.
- Pour dosa batter: Pour a ladle of batter and spread into a thin round.
- Add oil: Drizzle half tsp oil around edges. Cook 2 minutes.
- Add paneer filling: Place 2-3 tbsp paneer filling in the centre of the dosa while the top is still slightly wet.
- Fold: Fold the dosa over the filling.
- Cook: Press gently with a spatula and cook 1 more minute until base is golden.
- Serve: Paneer dosa is a filling protein-rich breakfast. Serve with coconut chutney and tomato chutney.