When you crave quick snacks, try these mini rava dosa or semolina pancakes. They're so easy to make and take less than 30 minutes to prepare.
Mini rava dosa is a healthy breakfast item. From the name, you can guess the hero ingredient here is Rava or Semolina. Well, you may call this Instant Uttapam as well. These are great finger foods for kids and make excellent tiffin box items.
The batter for this recipe is prepared by mixing semolina with beaten curd. You can add vegetables to the batter. I have added onion, coriander leaves, and green chilies. You can also add grated carrots, blanched green peas, and green beans. In this way, you can give nutritious veggies to your kids' food.
Mini Rava Dosa/ Mini Semolina Pancakes
The key to making soft pancakes is to keep semolina or rava batter for 1 hour. You can lessen this resting time to 30 minutes, too, but I like it when it's kept for some more time.
To reduce cooking time in the morning, you can make the batter overnight and refrigerate it. In the morning, you can easily make mini pancakes for the tiffin box in 10 - 15 minutes.
However, you can make larger pancakes or crepes from this batter. It should be medium thick in consistency (similar to dosa batter).
Kid's Tiffin Box Varieties
I have compiled kids' tiffin box recipesย here. Please read and comment if you want me to add more recipes to the list. Also, read theย 31 healthy breakfast recipes collectionย on theย blog.
You can make a chocolate sandwich, pizza sandwich, plain potato sandwich, tomato omelet sandwich, and many more. These are quick (under 5 mins) recipes.
My kid loves dosas and parathas. So I make dosas from regular lentil batter, wheat flour, semolina, rice flour, ragi flour, buckwheat flour, etc. And he loves all of them. He has no idea if it's the same dosa or different, but he enjoys all varieties.
I'm sure all super moms are finding different ways to give their little champs the best. So, moms, if you have some unique and interesting tiffin box ideas, please comment below. I would love to make them and present them here.
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Mini Rava Dosa/ Mini Semolina Pancakes for Kids TiffinBox
Ingredients
- 3 - 5 tbsp Oil
- 1 Onion finely chopped
- 3 tbsp Coriander leaves finely chopped
- 2 Green Chillies finely chopped
- ยฝ tsp Salt
- ยผ tsp Chat Masala optional
- 1 cup Semolina
- 1 cup Beaten Curd
- Water (As required)
- 2 tbsp Coriander Chutney (Optional)
For Coriander Chutney
- 4 tbsp coriander leaves
- ยฝ onion
- 3 - 4 garlic cloves
- ยฝ inch ginger
- 3 green chillies
- 2 tsp curd
- ยผ tsp salt
Instructions
- Add semolina and beaten curd and mix well. Keep aside for 15 minutes so that semolina will soak the moisture.
- The batter becomes thick as semolina will get soaked. Add chopped onion, coriander leaves, green chillies, coriander chutney and mix well.
- Add salt and mix well and keep aside for 5 minutes more. Add ยผ cup water (or as required) more if its very thick. Mix well and prepare thick batter.
- Heat a non stick pan. Put 1 tbsp oil. Put 1 spoonful of batter on it. If the batter is not thick then it will flow to spread.
- Keep on low flame and cover with a lid. Flip to other side and cook for another 2 - 3 minutes more.
- Remove from heat when both sides cooked.
- Serve with tomato ketchup or any sauce of your choice.
Nutrition
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Ann
Hello, can I make the batter beforehand and use it the next morning?
Ipsa Faujdar
Yes absolutely. It's a quicker option for quick morning breakfast or for kid's tiffin box. Just check the thickness before cooking. If you find it has turned a little thicker, add few spoons of water and adjust the consistency level.
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