Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Channa & Quinoa Pesarattu

Mostly i love instant versions of dosas or idlies,but sometimes i dont bother to soak lentils and dals to make non fermented dosas or idlis with them. My family love whole moongdal pesarattu, few days back i combined whole green grams,quinoa and white chickpeas together to make this nutritious and healthy pesarattu. Actually pesarattus is a famous Andhra savoury crepes prepared usually with yellow moongdal or whole moongdal with rice and few spices, these crepes are usually served with ginger chutney stuffed with upma.

My version of pesarattu here goes for white chickpeas,quinoa and rice along with whole green grams, this combination works out wonder and tastes absolutely incredible when served simply with spicy coconut chutney.If you want to give a twist to your usual pesarattus give a try to this version.Sending this pesarattus to my own event CWS-Chickpeas guest hosted by Kavi of Foodmania.


1cup Green gram/Whole Moongdal
1/2cup White chickpeas/Channa
1/2cup Quinoa
1/4cup Rice
2nos Green chillies
1no Dry red chilly
1tbsp Ginger (grated)
Salt
Oil

Soak the greengrams and chickpeas overnite together.

Next day soak the quinoa and rice together in a bowl for three hours.

Take the soaked greengrams,chickpeas,quinoa,rice in a blender with green chillies,dry red chilly,grated ginger and grind as fine paste with salt and water.

Keep for an hour in room temperature.

Now heat a non stick tawa, grease it and pour a ladle of this batter, spread it as medium sized thin circle, drizzle enough oil and cook for few minutes.

Flip the other side and cook until the dosa turns crispy and brown.

Serve with spicy chutneys.

You can sprinkle some chopped onions over the pesarattu, but its completely optional.

For making an Andhra style pesarattu, serve this nutritious pesarattu with upma and ginger chutney.

33 comments:

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

Nice version....wish to have with ginger chutney!!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy healthy dosa..Love it dear....

Nithu Bala said... Reply To This Comment

This is so healthy and delicious. Thanks for the recipe dear.

divya said... Reply To This Comment

tht's looks so tempting ...yum

Shobha said... Reply To This Comment

Nice variation..

Perspectivemedley said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy!! Looks very delicious :)

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

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Santosh Bangar said... Reply To This Comment

healthy combination

Santosh Bangar said... Reply To This Comment

healthy combination

asiyao said... Reply To This Comment

Innovative.Looks yum..

Roshni said... Reply To This Comment

like i always tell you, it has to be you to come up with such unique and awesome combos

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Such a nice recipe!!! I am looking ways to use up my quinoa!!! bookmarking this healthy and delicious recipe!!!

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Divya A said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely and healthy pesarattu :)
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Reshmi Mahesh said... Reply To This Comment

Innovative recipe...Loved the idea of using quinoa in that...Healthy and delicious..

Kannada Cuisine said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and delicious

preethiDhinesh said... Reply To This Comment

This looks fabulous . I just started using quinoa .

Akila said... Reply To This Comment

Yummy peasarattu...

Kaveri Venkatesh said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and delicious twist to the regular pesarattu

Saraswathy Balakrishnan said... Reply To This Comment

looks very health and delicious:)

Rumana Rawat said... Reply To This Comment

very healthy and delicious...

Sudha Sabarish said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy dosa and nice idea of including the quinoa and channa in dosas.

Sangeetha Nambi said... Reply To This Comment

Healthy and inviting traditional dish....
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Vidhya said... Reply To This Comment

So yummy and healthy innovation.

Hamaree Rasoi said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious and healthy dish. Wish I was there when you were preparing it.Deepa

Rinku Naveen said... Reply To This Comment

What a combo! Have always wanted to cook with quinoa

Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

good one..

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

such an innovative dish Priya, you are a very creative chef...

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Jaya M said... Reply To This Comment

Thats such a nice preparation of chana dal and quinoa Priya..hugs

Sona - Quick Picks said... Reply To This Comment

healthy and easy too...nice clicks

Prema said... Reply To This Comment

healthy pesarattu,delicious recipe...

Uma said... Reply To This Comment

I keep looking for healthy dosa recipes.. this one is perfect for me..

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

I've tried and like quinoa dosais... must try this combination with channa.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Pesarattu looks delicious, maybe you should rename it as quinoattu :-)