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Masala dosa recipe, south Indian breakfast

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Masala dosa recipe, basic south Indian potato masala dosai with step by step pictures. Simple and easy to prepare at home.

This is my favorite in my childhood days. I love the Potatoes cooked in a simple yet flavorful way that goes well as both stuffing for dosa and with puri/ poori. My dad takes us to restaurants only once in a blue moon. Even if we travel, my mom will pack idli or some variety rice. So we rarely get chance to restaurants.

If I get a chance, my order will be one and only the masala dosai.  And now, in contrast, now in Singapore, we eat out at least 2-3 times a month, thanks to Aj😉. He is just like me in that case, love restaurant food and he is also like me when it comes to taste. His order for breakfast will be always poori, masala dosa. That’s it. Every single time. But at home he asks for my vegetable masala dosa. He always wants something special😎.

I made it thick for making it possible to stuff the dosa. So if you want, you can adapt the same recipe for puri too, by adding a bit of water and leaving few pieces of the potatoes not mashed. Anyways I will also post a puri masala recipe in future, but just saying this can be used for puri too. My FIL actually likes it this way ~ thick and completely mashed potatoes for puri too. He says, see how it is mashed with no traces of potatoes at all, when we eat at Mathura restaurant at Mount road, Chennai. He loves that masala served there. It is so different from others. So here is my version of masala for dosai.

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Masala dosa recipe

Masala dosa is my favourite in my childhood days. I love the Potatoes cooked in a simple yet flavourful way that goes well as both stuffing for dosa and with puri/ poori.
Course Breakfast
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Servings 4
Cup measurements

Ingredients

  • 3 Potatoes big sized
  • 1 Onion
  • 2 tbsp Carrot finely chopped
  • 2 Green chilli
  • 1 tbsp Finely chopped ginger
  • 1/8 tsp Turmeric powder
  • Salt as needed

To temper

  • 1 tbsp Oil
  • 1/2 tsp Mustard
  • 1 tsp urad dal
  • 2 tsp Chana dal
  • 5 Cashew nuts
  • 1 Curry leaves sprig

Instructions

  • Wash and cut each potato into 4 and pressure cook with 1/2 cup water for 3 whistles. Peel off the skin and mash it well. Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘to temper’ table in order. Let the cashews turn golden.
  • Add chopped ginger, green chilli, onion, carrot and fry well for a minute. Add 1/4 cup water and turmeric.
  • Add the mashed potatoes and mix well. Fry for 2-3 minutes, add oil if needed more.
  • Spread dosa (refer tips page – dosa tips) thin , drizzle some oil or best ghee and when it gets cooked, no need to flip, just spread a ladle full of masala prepared in the middle.

Notes

  • Use 1/2 tsp ghee along with oil for each dosa , which makes the masal dosa smell divinely. Restrict yourself to one or two to take care of your health/ diet.
  • Adding finely chopped ginger not only enhances the flavour, also helps in digesting the potato.Just make sure to finely chop, then you wont even get it to know while eating.
  • Even If you don’t want that, you can also grind the ginger and green chilli with water mentioned in step 2 and use it.
  • I use coconut oil for making this masala, which adds more flavour.

Masala dosa method:

  1. Wash and cut each potato into 4 and pressure cook with 1/2 cup water for 3 whistles. Peel off the skin and mash it well. Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under ‘to temper’ table in order. Let the cashews turn golden.1-potato
  2. Add chopped ginger, green chilli, onion, carrot and fry well for a minute. Add 1/4 cup water and turmeric.2-potato
  3. Add the mashed potatoes and mix well. Fry for 2-3 minutes, add oil if needed more.3-potato
  4. Spread dosa (refer tips page – dosa tips) thin , drizzle some oil or best ghee and when it gets cooked, no need to flip, just spread a ladle full of masala prepared in the middle.4-potato

Fold the dosa into half, closing the masala filling and serve hot with chutney and tiffin sambar.
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Is it not tempting?
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  2. Divya Kudua

    Sunday breakfast(more like brunch)alternate between Puttu-Kadala and Masala dosa for us.Love the full mashed version though I take the easier route and prepare the masala all together in a pressure cooker.Lovely yellow,I am sure this would make for a delicious spread!

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  14. Ramya

    Just love ur breakfast recipes Raks.I am always lost when i browse ur breakfast recipes.I was planning to try the Puli sevai and now comes Masala Dosa:-) Started craving for it now:-)

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  29. Anonymous

    Hi Raji,
    Very tempting! I am a dosa fan and had been devouring a lot lately. Your beautiful pictures make it extra inviting! Keep the good work going. I have tried many recipes from your blog with excellent results. Thanks!
    Sridevi Ravi

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  48. Suad

    I have tried this today and it was just YUMMY!! My parents loved it, even though the dosa that I made didn't look like yours yet it's taste was divine. I'm proud to say this is my first time cooking Indian food and it was a great experience. Can't wait to cook more Indian foods and thanks for this wonderful website. Keep it up

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  49. Preeti Chourishi

    Hey Rak… your recipes are so practicle. Even items and ingredients you used are easily available in our home and market. You satisfied my search of collection of recipes in one blog. Thanks a lot. 🙂

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  53. Pooja S

    normally in karnataka restaurants, if you order for masala dosa,they prepare dosa with another ingredient,which they call as khara chutney.after the dosa is done,they line the penultimate ring of the dosa with khara chutney and in middle they put potato masala.Served with coconut chutney and sambar. The same goes with podi dosa,where khara chutney is replaced by chutney podi/milaga podi.The sambar has a little bit sweet taste.I havent had a very good masala dosa outside karnataka.Its always best there.

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  54. Fawad Ahmed

    this summer i decided to cook Indian cuisines (which are not common in Pakistan) and start from masala dosa and surprise my family, and rakskitchen is going to help me 🙂

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  57. kokila balaguru

    Hi

    I have tried ur masala dosa receipe it really come out well. my husband loved it . He ate all the masala along with the ginger chutney.he liked it so much that he cannot resist with two, he generally don't eat potatoes.

    a very big thanks for you as i'm trying lots of dishes from ur site. i have learned lot's of cooking basics and techniques to cook each variety carefully and without loosing the taste of the dish.

    once again thanks for u, because ur blog i'm learned to cook and my family started loving all my dishes.

    Thanks and keep going this in my everyday recipe index. because i see the recipe according to what i have at my home and start cooking accordingly. so first thing for me to do in the morning is decide what to cook from ur blog and then start my cooking.

    thanks a lot for ur help and blog. keep rocking rak's.

    thanks
    Kokila

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  63. Sita

    Hello,
    We are a franco-tamil cultural centre in Pondicherry and we are currently writting an article about what can be done out of an idli batter especially dosai and uttapam ! Your article's picture looks yummy! We would like to ask you if we can use the last one as an illustration ? We can put the photographer''s name on it of course and send you the link of the article once it is written !
    Sita team's best regards

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