Garlic cheese dosa is a treat for garlic lovers with crisp fried garlic sprinkled all over dosa topped with cheese. Full video and step by step pictures.
My co-sis once told about this dosa that she gets in their favorite hangout spot in Mumbai. Later she sent me a picture of the dosa too. I was asking her the name of the food stall they get this garlic cheese dosa. I searched for this dosa in Instagram and found few pictures similar to that of the one she sent me through whatsapp.

I am a dosa lover right from my childhood days. Rather I would say a a spoilt brat, who doesn’t like to have idli, so mom makes dosai just for me. The oil, naturally a chekku ennai (cold pressed peanut oil) from local shop we used to buy, added a great flavour to dosas.
I used to miss that flavour when I started cooking and kept wondering what is that thing, that made ammas dosai so flavoutful? Never thought oil can do such an important part in the flaovur. I thought could be the local grown grains or the magic, love and affection as well. But recently only found oil also one of the factor adding flavours.

Even though amma haven’t made these fancy dosais for me, she sure took time to satisfy tastebuds with what ever she could do amidst her busy, tiring day. Iruppu chatti uthappam, paniyarams, soft poruous thick dosas, thin crispy dosas, killer onion uthappams in iruppu chatti, podi dosa, podi uthappam, masala dosas.
So coming to today’s post, it was quite tempting to see and hear about it from my co sis. So wanted to try and recreate at home. You can use easy melting cheese of your choice too.

Garlic cheese dosa recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Breakfast/ Brunch
Prep Time: 20 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Serves: 5 | Author: Raks anand

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Garlic cheese dosa is a treat for garlic lovers with crisp fried garlic sprinkled all over dosa topped with cheese. Full video and step by step pictures.

Ingredients

Garlic – 1 whole bulb
Grated cheese – 3/4 cup
Red chilli powder –3/4 tsp
Spring onion – 1/2 cup, finely chopped
Salt – as needed
oil – As needed

Method:

Take garlic flakes in a steel container with lid. Shake it well vigorously for a minute and you will now able to see the skin separated from the garlic.
Roughly chop garlic and later run through your knife all throughout the garlic several times, chopping it so that the bits get into fine tiny pieces.
Heat a pan with oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Add finely chopped garlic to it. Keep on stirring in medium flame to ensure even browning. Once golden, drain from oil and keep aside.
Add red chilli powder and salt to it. Mix well.
If you are using idli dosa batter, add water little bit to the batter and mix well. Spread a thin dosa over tawa and drizzle oil. Spread a tbsp of the garlic we prepared. Grate cheese over it.
Once the cheese melts, fold it to cover it and transfer to the serving plate.

Notes

I used the big variety garlic to make sure peeling and chopping are easy. If using the Indian small variety, it takes more time to get peeled (either way by the shaking method or manually, it takes time)
The chopped garlic should be fine and approximately evenly chopped.
Always cook in medium flame to get crispy golden fried garlic. If cooked in high flame, it may not be staying crispy. Make sure to add enough oil for the garlic to get fried evenly.
For making perfect dosa, always smooth the batter well by adding little water and mixing well.
Always spread dosa in the pan first and then drizzle oil. Adding oil first and then spreading dosa will not give even thickness dosa.

Step by step preparation :

Take garlic flakes in a steel container with lid. Shake it well vigorously for a minute

You will now able to see the skin separated from the garlic.

Roughly chop garlic and later run through your knife all throughout the garlic several times, chopping it so that the bits get into fine tiny pieces.

Heat a pan with oil to cover the bottom of the pan. Add finely chopped garlic to it. Keep on stirring in medium flame to ensure even browning. Once golden, drain from oil and keep aside.

Add red chilli powder and salt to it. Mix well.

If you are using idli dosa batter, add water little bit to the batter and mix well. Spread a thin dosa over tawa and drizzle oil. Spread a tbsp of the garlic we prepared. Grate cheese over it.

Once the cheese melts, fold it to cover it and transfer to the serving plate.

After transferring to serving plate, garnish with more garlic, cheese and top it with spring onion, that’s the away they serve it. Serve with coconut chutney and sambar.