Updated on by Raks Anand 91 Comments
Sponge dosa or poha dosa is a super easy breakfast idea with poha/ aval/ flattened rice. Super soft results with just 3 easy steps.
I simply followed the recipe from a cookbook. It's a long time wish for me to try this and today I tried and was satisfied with the results.
There are so many sponge dosa recipes out there in the blog world,and here is another simple version! It was too spongy and was good enough even when cooled down!
Next time I will try adding Vendayam/ fenugreek seeds and ferment rather than making it with sour butter milk and cooking soda, as in other blogs👰, though it was very very spongy, I will try that for flavor!
Ingredients
| Idly rice(parboiled rice) | 2 cups |
| Rice flakes/aval/poha | ¼ cup |
| Sour butter milk | 3 – 4 cups |
| Cooking soda | ¼ tsp |
| Oil & salt | As needed |
Method
- Soak washed rice and aval together in buttermilk overnight.
- Morning,drain the excess buttermilk if any and grind to a smooth batter like our idly dosa batter(bit watery than that)
- Mix salt(I added 2 tsp) and cooking soda and mix well.
- Heat the tawa (I used a nonstick one) and pour a ladle full of batter and drizzle oil and don’t spread the batter,cook covered in medium flame for a minute.
Now super soft spongy poha dosa is ready to enjoy!
Serve with a spicy chutney,we had with coconut chutney ground with red chillies and a garlic! Was really yummy and we all 3 ate well.
Notes:
No holes formed in the dosa? Check the consistency of the batter, too thick batter or even too thin batter won't give you porous dosa. Try adding more cooking soda and mix well and try again.
Other Indian Breakfast & Dinner ideas
- Bedmi Puri Recipe
- Sabudana Thalipeeth Recipe
- Oats chilla recipe
Reader Interactions
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shanthi
Yummy sponge Dosa and Congrats on being featured as Sunday Blogger in EC
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Happy cook
Wow it indeed look spongy delcious, wish i got idli rice here.
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Sharmilee! :)
Spongy dosas looks soo tempting, bookmarked will surely try it!!
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Priya
Send me some spongy dosa Raks, looks gorgeous!
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DEESHA
beautiful .. this is bookmarked Raks. Thanks for the recipe
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Raje
Looks delicious!nice and spongy...
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sowmya.s
very spongy..am sure it tastes good..should try it sometime..
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Lone Acorn
I love the spongy dosa with chicken curry. I know its something different but I can tell you amazing taste.
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Preeti Kashyap
looks perfect!
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jeyashrisuresh
perfect dosas. will surely try next time. my kids always prefer spongy ones they never like crispy dosas. surely they will like this.Pictures r so nice
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rekhas kitchen
wow that looks so soft and spongy and looks like a thich aapam yum mouthwatering dear.
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Nags
this is what they call set dosa no? it looks very similar.. the ones they serve with kurma in veg restaurants in blore.
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Bharathy
The pores say it all!!!!
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Pavithra
WOw thats our fav one I often do this.... Looks good and yummy.. Nice click as well.
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Prathibha
Lovely dosa Raji...I love the spongyness of this dosa..I like to have mine with bombai chutney or veg saagu with a dollop of fresh butter..yummy right??
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Anu
Looks yummy and delicious... Nice click...
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A 2 Z Vegetarian Cuisine
Send across some please, look delicious.
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Priyanka Navis
looks yummy and delicious
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Priya Narasimhan
lovely photos of spongy dosas..waiting or your event-round up. 🙂
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Sireesha
Fabulous sponge dosa looks tempting:)
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Sushma Mallya
looks so spongy...loved the pic too raks...
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Tina
Dosa looks sooooooo spongy ...Dear plz check my recipe.....
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Parita
Wow that truly looks soft and spongy 🙂
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Sanghi
Wow.. really spongy! Lovely pictures too..!
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Varsha Vipins
Jeez..That single dosa pic made me go nuts..:D..I wanna try this,this is more like our appam(vellayappam) recipe than dosa..I dont have aval or buttermilk..:(..Can I get any substitutes Raks..?I so want to try this asap..:D
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RAKS KITCHEN
Nags,
St dosa I think they cook both sides,this one we are cooking only one side and cover and cook:)
Varsha,
I am not sure to replace those 2 with any,may be you can try grinding with cooked rice(in place of rice flakes) and keep it for fermenting and make next day the dosas...this is my own guess,but not sure how effective the result would be 😛Reply
my kitchen
Delicious spongy dosa.Tempting
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Chitra
I too tried poha dosa , recipe from my neighbour, urs is looking good 🙂 will try this once..
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Sarah Naveen
WOw!! Yummy Sponge dosa!!
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Cilantro
Looks delicious and soft with all the holes in them. It has come out perfect. I add some fenugreek and a tablespoon of ullunthu and the taste and smell of it is good. This recipe has come out perfect so why change it??? I will try this recipe next time.
Mallika Badrinath`s recipe usually does not disappoint me.Reply
Valarmathi
Wow.. looks so spongy and yummy, nice click.
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notyet100
ummm yummy
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Sireesha
Happy Dussehra to you and your Family.
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Sireesha
Happy Dussehra to you and your Family.
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Cham
Love the white color of sponge dosa!
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jayasree
Lovely dosa... It looks so spongy..this is slightly different from the set dosa recipe I follow. Bookmarked.
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jayashree
Indeed the dosa lived upto it's name. I too have Mallika's book, but I was inspired to try out this recipe only after I saw the picture in your blog !
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Lavi
Tomorrow this is going to be our tiffin.. Iam dreaming to get perfect dosa's like urs. will let u know tomm.
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Kavitha Bhargav
I tried this and it came out well. Thanks
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Anonymous
Hi! I tried it but it wasn't white as u'rs, still tasted good and yummy 🙂
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Anonymous
Hi! I tried this and it tasted good. It wasn't so white as u'rs 🙂 Great going !!!
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vanitha
Hi
i tried this dosa . but i not get well. wht?i did mistake i dont.Reply
rajresidentjoe
enakku vayasu 63..ungaludaiya tiffin blogs pramadham...oat dosa,sponge dosa en pennai panna cholluven..ennna enakku kadavai pal kidayadhu...manamarndha vazthukkal.
ramu thatha.
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Mitha
Raji
I tried sponge dosa yesterday
tasted yumm !!!
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admin
Can i soak the rice in morning, grind it in evening and make dosa immediately for dinner? Will it work?
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RAKS KITCHEN
Yes sure it will work!
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pinky
Thank u!
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Goddess
Raksh,
enna solla? I have no grinder and not a good mixie too. But when I checked this out i was like... some miracle should happen to my mixie so that i can try this. Yes, the miracle did happen! I tried this recipe (mixie ground the rice so soft) with nice spicy tomato-chilly chutney. It came out so so well and I bragged about it to my amma 🙂 Thanks so much girl.More writing... though I know to cook almost any south Indian recipe, at times I get some doubt but i could not call my mom since it'll be mid-night when we prepare our lunch here. So then I immediately get my system and type rakskitchen.com 🙂 If there is any different item from my kitchen my husband now asks...'enna ma..rakskitchen-a?' 😀 😀
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selvambigai
hi raks, tried sponge dosa, it was porous, but it came out hard, what could be the reason, still batter s der, what I can do with that? thankyou
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Raks Anand
Was the batter too thick? Try adding little more water if so. Also the cooking soda could be the culprit. Use aluminium free fresh cooking soda. If you want to avoid cooking soda, grind the batter and keep it for fermentation. Hope this helps
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selvambigai
thankyou raks
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RAKS KITCHEN
Thank you so so so so much 🙂 You made my day! 🙂 Glad that my site is helping few people,which I started to help myself 😉 haha. Keep visiting!
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Goddess
Sure I will! 🙂
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Goddess
by the way, it's rakskitchen.net and .com, o it's in my most visited list and seldom note the domain 🙂
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jo
hi raks, i wanted to try this recipe as this looks so nice and very good for babay's too. I have some question is no need of fermenting the batter can we do immediately after grinding? do you know how to make butter milk at home as we will be having yogurt all the time but not buttermilk, plsss
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LBhairavi
Hi Rak's
I tried this dosa recipe , it really came out good
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maidofadyar
Just made this soft and fluffy dosa. I had to use soy yogurt as I am allergic to milk but the taste was tart and good. I also added 1/4 tsp curry leaf podi and pepper powder. So good!
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maidofadyar
Just cooked up the sponge dosas and they were light and delicious. I had to use soy "yogurt" because I am allergic to milk. Also put 1/4 tsp curry podi and pepper powder for extra flavor and used fenugreek in the soak. Thanks for a great recipe.
Deborah
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Cynthia Pinto
Hi Rak
I soaked the rice and aval with buttermilk (the buttermilk isin't sour at all) from at 5pm this eve. Can I grind it at night say 11 pm. Keep the batter outside overnight to ferment a bit and make the dosas in the morn say 7pm? I don't want to grind in the morning as I run short of time. Thanks in advance. Really appreciate if your answer came quick
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RAKS KITCHEN
Cynthiya, yes you can try that. You can make dosa at 7 am. Since you are fermenting, if you give more time for fermenting, you need not even add buttermilk.
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Eat & Burpp
Made them in the morning today!! Came out fabulous!! I have not clicked the pic unfortunately...but the recipe goes in the diary & a pic will follow soon! Served with Peanut Shallot Chutney....yumm!! Thanks!
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Sailaja Angara
very much tempting sponge dosa. Your blog is also very wonderful. a very eatable blog.
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Ashwini D
hey i want to try this recipe but what do mean by aval
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RAKS KITCHEN
Poha in Hindi or flattened rice.
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Paddy
This is one really nice yummy dosa that everyone must try. It tastes simply good and not much of hard work too 🙂
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RAKS KITCHEN
Soda is for making it porous and easy cooking. You can omit and grind and keep overnight for natural porous dosas!
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Indhu
it turned out to be sour! yet the butter milk, i used, was not. any idea why?
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RAKS KITCHEN
Because of hot climate? Try soaking for less hours.
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saranya
i tried this one. as the name its soft. nice one.I soak at night n grind in the morning. can i use left over batter for eveningÉ
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Swetha bhargav
Can I use normal rice instead of parboiled rice
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Raks anand
I am not sure about the result, try and see with little proportion
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Chidambara selvi T
hey Raji, I dint get boiled rice here, can i use Raw rice for this ??
will that work ??Reply
Raks anand
You can try, I hope it will work.
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vanaja k
hai raks,your recipe of sponge dosa is tasty.i have tried it but with raw rice as i didnot have boiled rice.it has come out very fluffy and spongy.i like your blog very much.
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Chithra Nair
i was searching for this recipe...i am sure i reached the correct place....the pics shows its taste and perfection!! thx a lot sharing this recipe raks!!!
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Gayathri Ramanan
tried your recipe, came out soft and spongy ..thank you...
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seher aniat
i was looking for this recipe...i am positive i reached the proper place....the pics shows its taste and perfection!! the plenty sharing this recipe rakes!!! cookings set
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Sharrel D'souza
Other than Buttter milk what can be used?
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Raks anand
You can grind without it and keep overnight for fermentation.
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Indhu Vinod
Hi Raks, i want to try this dosa today for dinner. Does this dosa need fermentation. Is it ok if i soak rice and aval morning for 8 hours?
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Indhu Vinod
Hi raks, i want to try this sponge dosa . I have a doubt that do we want to ferment this dosa batter?
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Raks anand
8-10hrs must be enough I think in this hot climate now.
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suba
Hi raks,
U hv an amazing blog. U might hv heard this from many. But u absolutely deserves it.Cmg back to sponge dosa. Can we preserve the excess batter for the next day? If so how many days we can preserve it in refrigerator?
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maria . K
By aval- do you mean the thick or thin rice flakes, this always confuses me! thanks. Is it the same type of aval that is used for all types of dosa's..
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Raks anand
Both will work.
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Unknown
Can add soaked chana dal and zeera to the batter . it tastes more gud
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Parvathi S
my kids are allergic to Soda.Any other replacement for that
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Anu
Can you please post the recipe of the chutney u used for this dosa ?? I searched in your chutneys collection but could not find this .. Please post soon .. I am planning to make this dosa once you post the chutney recipe 🙂
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Raks anand
You can soak for 3 hrs, ferment for 6 hours and make.
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Raks anand
Sure will post 🙂
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Padmaja Racherla
I tried your sponge dosa recipe and it turned out very good. Thank you for another breakfast recipe. I tried oil-free dosa and it's great.
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