Vella Dosai / Instant Wheat Flour Jaggery Sweet Pancakes
Vella Dosai is a quick after school snack recipe for kids or breakfast treat during weekends to satisfy sweet cravings. An Instant Wheat Flour and Jaggery Pancake Recipe with Step by Step pics can be made under 30 minutes.
Servings 7 pancakes
Equipment
- Tawa or Griddle
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour !/2 cup is 125 ml measurement
- 1/2 cup Rice Flour
- 1 cup Jaggery (Grated or roughly chopped) 1 cup is 200 ml measurement
- 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder or Eliachi powder
- 1 tbsp Sliced Coconut Pieces
- Water as required to achieve batter consistency See Notes below
- Ghee or Clarified butter to cook the dosa
Instructions
- Grate Jaggery, measure and keep aside. Sift Whole Wheat Flour and Rice Flour in a bowl.
- Melt Jaggery in a steel vessel with 2 tblsp water on low flame, until the jaggery is liquid consistency. No one string consistency to be achieved here so ensure the flame is low.
- Strain the jaggery.
- Mix the flour and jaggery until it has formed a thick paste. Add water and achieve pouring consistency.
- Now add fine slices of coconut along with cardamom powder. Mix well and rest for 5 minutes.
- Heat a griddle or tawa, add few drops of ghee.
- Carefully pour a ladle of this dosa batter and try to spread. The batter tends to stick a bit so be careful.
- Drizzle ghee to the sides of the pancake, cover and cook for few minutes over low heat.
- Remove cover, flip and cook until done.
- Serve the dosas piping hot.
Notes
- Since the Dosa or pancake is sweet, choose good quality Jaggery. I have used an organic variety.
- Every Jaggery variety is different, so ensure you taste and adjust quantity.
- The colour of the pancakes would also depend on the variety of jaggery used.
- For this recipe, we have to just melt the jaggery. No one-string consistency needs to be achieved here. Do not overcook the jaggery or thicken it. It should just dissolve so that batter can be mixed easily.
- I have used water to adjust the consistency of the batter, you can add milk too. I find the latter too heavy, so I avoid.
- Water quantity was close to 1 cup (250 ml) that was used for adjusting batter consistency. It largely depends on the flour too. Organic Wheat Flour absorbs more water. Adjust and add accordingly.
- Instead of chopped pieces of coconut, you can add grated coconut too.
- The Recipe is not Gluten Free but can be easily substituted with Almond Flour. For a Vegan Recipe version, add oil instead of ghee.