Mumbai Jini Dosa Roll
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Thin dosa filled with spiced veg cheese mix and rolled — Mumbai jini dosa street style.
Jini dosa is a Mumbai street stall invention: a thin dosa packed with chopped vegetables and a sharp chutney, then rolled tight. At home you can use your usual idli dosa batter and keep the stuffing to what is in the fridge.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Cook thin dosa.
Spread filling and cheese.
Roll tight; sear briefly.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Vegetable-stuffed dosa roll. Keep cheese modest; prefer homemade batter.
A thin dosa spread with a big handful of capsicum and onion gives you volume without a lot of oil. The fermented batter does the rest of the work.
Pro Tips
- →Thin crisp dosa.
- →Dry filling.
- →Roll hot.
- →Cut the capsicum and onion very fine so the roll bites cleanly and does not tear.
- →Spread the batter thin and cook only one side until it is golden, the filling goes on the cooked side.
- →Keep cheese to a light sprinkle, it melts and binds the filling.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Cheese (processed or cheddar type): about 400 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Paneer.
- 2No cheese.
- 3Swap the Schezwan sauce for green chutney and add grated paneer for a protein version.
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