Kuttu Dosa - crispy buckwheat crepes !

Kuttu Dosa - very good option to use your  millets frequently.

Quantity - makes 6 small dosas

Ingredients -

Cucumber - 1 big
Green chillies - 3/4 as per taste
Ginger - 1/2 inch grated
Fresh coriander - 2/3 strands
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Hing - a pinch
Haldi - a pinch
Salt - as per taste
Kuttu Flour - 2/3 rd cup 
Water - 1/3 rd cup 
Homemade ghee - for roasting 

Procedure-

1. Wash , peel and cut cucumber into medium sized pieces . Cut green chillies and grate ginger finely .
2. In Preeti Mixer , grind cucumber + ginger + green chillies and fresh coriander . Do not add any water as cucumber will release its own water .Blend into a smooth paste.
3. To this paste , add 2/3 rd cup of Kuttu flour and mix well in the blender itself . Add salt , cumin seeds , haldi and hing now . Mix well and continue to grind again . 
4. Add 1/3rd water next and grind everything together into a very nice smooth batter . Consistency is crucial here . Batter should not be too watery here or thick here . Remove batter in a bowl and mix well . 
5. Heat a tawa and keep ghee handy to use for roasting . Once tawa is hot , pour ladleful of batter on the tawa and spread it like a dosa . If the batter is too thick to spread , add very little water to get it to spreading consistency . Pour ghee from sides and cover tawa with lid and let it cook nicely from one side .
6. Once cooked nicely from bottom , flip it and allow to cook from other side . It should be nicely crisp .

Serve hot with ghee and molagai podi :)

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