Panch Phoron: Crisp Dosa with Five-Seed Potato Masala


Prep30 mins (plus 12 hr ferment)Cook40 minsServes4
Spice: Panch Phoron Spice Blend
Pour: 2024 Blanc De Franc
Pour: 2024 Blanc de Sangiovese

Ingredients

  • BATTER (start a day ahead): 2 cups parboiled idli rice
  • 1/2 cup skinned urad dal (split black gram)
  • 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds
  • 1 tsp fine sea salt
  • MASALA: 3 tbsp ghee or coconut oil
  • 2 tsp LXV Panch Phoron Spice Blend
  • 1 tsp black mustard seeds
  • 20 fresh curry leaves
  • 2 yellow onions, sliced thin
  • 2 green chilies, split lengthwise
  • 1 tbsp grated fresh ginger
  • 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
  • 2 lbs Yukon Gold potatoes, boiled, peeled and roughly broken (not mashed)
  • 1 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
  • Juice of 1/2 lime and a large handful of cilantro
  • Ghee or oil, for cooking the dosas

Method

  1. Rinse the rice until the water runs clear and soak it 6 hours. Separately soak the urad dal and fenugreek 4 hours.
  2. Grind the dal and fenugreek first with just enough cold water to make a light, fluffy batter — it should almost float. Grind the rice separately to a fine, slightly grainy paste. Fold the two together by hand with the salt.
  3. Cover loosely and ferment at warm room temperature 10-14 hours, until the batter has risen, smells pleasantly sour, and is full of bubbles. Refrigerate until you are ready; thin with water to a pourable single-cream consistency before cooking.
  4. For the masala, heat the ghee in a wide pan over medium. Add the mustard seeds and wait for them to pop, then add the LXV Panch Phoron Spice Blend and the curry leaves — stand back, they will spit.
  5. Add the onions, chilies and ginger and cook 8 minutes until soft and just golden. Stir in the turmeric.
  6. Fold in the broken potatoes and salt, adding 1/4 cup water to loosen. Cook 5 minutes, pressing some of the potato into the pan so it picks up color. Finish with lime and cilantro and keep warm.
  7. Heat a cast-iron or carbon-steel pan over medium-high until a drop of water skitters. Wipe with a lightly oiled cloth. Pour a ladle of batter in the center and spread it outward in a quick spiral to a thin round.
  8. Drizzle a teaspoon of ghee around the edge and cook 2-3 minutes without touching it, until the underside is lace-brown and the edges lift. Do not flip a dosa you plan to fill.
  9. Spoon masala down the center, fold, and serve immediately — a dosa waits for no one. Repeat, wiping the pan between each.
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