Name: Thosai
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: Sri Lankan
Ingredients: ¼ tsp cumin seeds; 250 ml (9 fl oz/generous 1 cup) water; 3 dried red chillies, broken; 1 tbsp oil; 400 g (14 oz/2 cups) uncooked white rice (basmati or patna); ¼ tsp mustard seeds; 200 g (7 oz/1 cup) urid dal (split black gram); 2 tsp fenugreek seeds; salt; ¼ medium onion, finely chopped; 2 fresh curry leaves

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sri Lanka

By Prakash K. Sivanathan and Niranjala M. Ellawala

Published 2017

About

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz/1 cup) urid dal (split black gram)
400

Method

Preparation

Wash the urid dal, rice and fenugreek seeds separately and put them in three separate containers. Cover with water and soak for at least 5 hours.

When soaked, drain the three containers. Put the urid dal and fenugreek seeds in a blender and liquidise, adding about 80ml of water little by little, until you have a thick, smooth paste. It should be flowing but not run