Dosa Waffle

DOSA WAFFLE

Well, like many other fusion dishes, this is one of them. I am a typical south Indian Tambrahm. Hence like most of the south Indians, I have the dosai batter always or rather most of the times in my refrigerator. The routine for the week will mostly be in the order of Idli, Then dosai and then Paniyaram. But the same routine becomes boring if done regularly and then the search in the pantry starts as to what do I make for the next morning. The search is even more frantic when you have a daughter who is quite fussy about eating idli and dosai. But then when I gave the total new twist to the old batter with this dosa waffle, she was quite happy to have her morning breakfast. Preparing this waffle is quite easy if you have the ready dosai batter in your refrigerator.

VEGETABLE DOSA WAFFLE

We can make variations with the basic dosa waffle. We can add finely minced onions to make the very delicious onion dosa waffle. I like to make the spicy vegetable waffles.

Do we need a waffle iron?

Waffles are necessarily made in the waffle iron. However, not everyone will have a waffle iron. So we get the sandwich maker which has a waffle mould. Making waffles in this is easy too which gives you a ven browned waffle. The other option is to use the silicone mould and bake them in the oven. We can make waffles in one of the above-mentioned ways.

What are the different varieties of waffle that we can make at home?

Generally, waffles that are available are the waffles with eggs. We can also make these eggless waffles with our regular all-purpose flour or maida. We can make sweet waffles as well as the savoury waffles. If you can be a little creative then we make waffles with millets too.

What batter do I use to make this savoury waffle?

Here I have used the regular idli/Dosa batter. You can make similar waffles with your paniyaram batter and oothapam batter as well.

Preparation of dosa waffles

1. Clean the waffle iron. Grease it with cooking oil.
2. Heat the waffle iron or the sandwich maker with the waffle mould.
3. Once it is heated and the lights turns green showing the waffle iron is ready, pour the saddle full of the batter in each of the four quadrants.
4. Close it and set it to high heat and let it cook till crispy
5. Once it is ready the light turns green again
6. Take it out carefully and serve warm with coconut chutney or chutney of your choice