Menthe dose | Fenugreek Seeds Dose

Menthe Dose | Fenugreek Seeds dose is a lesser known dish from Karnataka. It's made with fermented batter of fenugreek seeds, rice, coconut and jaggery. This sweetish and utterly delicious  dose is served with a big dollop of ghee at home. While you can also pair it with spicy chutneys, I like mine dunked in ghee. 




 
Fenugreek seeds (menthe/methi seeds) are known to have many medicinal values, it aids in digestion, good for lactating mothers and also used to control diabetes. It's used widely in many Indian recipes specially curries. Today I am posting a sweet dish  - Menthe Bella dose. 

Here is the recipe that my mom passed to me. Do give it a try!



Ingredients:

2 cups rice (sona masoori raw rice/dose rice)

1 cup freshly grated coconut 

2 tbsp fenugreek (methi) seeds 

1 cup jaggery

Salt to taste

Method:
 

1. Wash and soak rice and methi seeds separately for 3-4 hours.

2.  Grind it with fresh coconut. Let the batter be a bit coarse and thicker than the usual dosa batter.

3. Add salt and let it ferment overnight, add powdered jaggery in the morning and mix well.

4.  Heat a dosa pan, grease it and pour a laddle full of batter, spread a little and cover with the lid. Flip and cook on both sides and serve with ghee or chutney of your choice.





Notes:
1. Methi seeds should be very soft to grind in the mixer.
2. Keep the batter slightly coarse so the dose will turn fluffy.
3. Let the batter ferment well, if the weather is cold it's better to grind it a bit in advance.
4. Don't spread the dosa very thin, it should be thicker similar to set dose.