Pesarattu

Pesarattu - Andhra's favorite delicacy. 'Pesara' means Moong in Telugu, 'attu' means dosa. It's a very nutritious dosa. You need -

Ingredients :

1 cup - Green Moong beans ( whole or split )

1/4 cup - Rice

4-5 Green Chillies

About 1 inch Ginger (cut to bite size pieces)

1-1/2 tsp salt or to taste

Few tsps oil

For Garnish :

1 Onion(finely chopped)

2 Green Chillies (also, finely chopped)

Soak moong beans and rice overnight or for 8 hrs. Later drain all the water and grind it along with green chillies and ginger. Make it into a smooth paste. Add salt. This batter doesn't need fermenting. You can use it immeditely or store it in the refrigerator for later use.

On medium heat, pour one ladle of batter into the center of the tava or pan and spread it around evenly making a circle. Leave it for about 2mins and sprinkle little oil on top and the edges of the circle.

Gently lift it and reverse it and leave it for a minute. Turn it back and sprinkle some finely chopped onions on it, garnish with chopped green chillies if you extra spicy although garnishing with onions and chillies and fold it. Remove it from the pan.

For Variation, to serve it like an authentic Andhra food, you can also make sooji/rava upma, and place it in the pesarattu before folding it.

Either way, the pesarattu tastes so good, you can't stop eating more.

Serve pesarratu with ginger chutney or with coconut chutney. Instead, I've made coriander-coconut chutney for mine.

Recipe source: Mom.
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