Adai recipe | Adai dosa | How to make adai recipe
Adai recipe | Adai dosa | How to make adai recipe

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, adai recipe | adai dosa | how to make adai recipe. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Adai dosa

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook adai recipe | adai dosa | how to make adai recipe using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Adai recipe | Adai dosa | How to make adai recipe:
  1. Make ready 3/4 cup rice (idly rice or short grain parboiled rice like sona masuri or ponni) or Idli rice
  2. Make ready 1/4 cup chana dal or split skinned bengal gram
  3. Get 1/4 cup toor dal or split skinned pigeon peas
  4. Make ready 2 tbsps moong dal or split skinned green gram
  5. Get 2 tbsps urad dal or split skinned black gram
  6. Prepare 3/4-1 inch ginger
  7. Take 4-5 red chilies (l use less spicy variety, use as desired)
  8. Make ready 3/4-1 tsp jeera
  9. Get 1/8 tsp Hing or asafoetida
  10. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt as needed
  11. Get as required Water to make batter
  12. Take 2 tbsp Oil or ghee as needed
  13. Make ready 1 small onion finely chopped
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped

Adai- Adai is a popular dosa in the South Indian cuisine made using rice and lentils. Adai, however is made slightly thicker and is made using a coarsely ground rice and lentils batter. Unlike dosa, you do not have to ferment the Adai batter. Adai is usually made in many Tamil Brahmin households during Karthikai Deepam.

Steps to make Adai recipe | Adai dosa | How to make adai recipe:
  1. Add all the lentils or dals – chana, toor, urad and moong dal to a large pot. Wash them very well 3 times.
  2. Pour enough water and soak them for 2 to 3 hours. You can also leave them overnight for 8 hours.
  3. Add rice to another large pot and wash 3 times.
  4. Next add red chilies to the rice and soak them for 2 to 3 hours. Same this one too you can leave the rice overnight for 8 hours.
  5. Drain the water from both the pots.
  6. Add rice and red chilies to a blender jar along with little water. Blend to a slightly coarse paste or thick batter.
  7. Transfer the batter to a pot. - Add dals, jeera and ginger to the jar. Also add little water and blend to a slightly coarse thick batter. Mix this with the rice batter.
  8. Heat a pan. Add few drops of oil and smear it all over the pan with a tissue.
  9. While the pan heats, add chopped onions, salt, hing, coriander leaves to the batter. Mix everything well.
  10. If you prefer to make thick adai, the consistency of the batter must be thick but of spreading consistency.
  11. If you prefer thin adai, then add more water as needed. Mix well to bring the consistency to a slightly less thick batter, not runny. The batter must be easily spreadable on the pan.
  12. Regulate the flame to medium. Make sure the pan is hot. - Pour one ladle of batter and spread it quickly like a dosa. Spread it to thick or thin adai as per your liking. - Add 1/2 tsp oil or ghee across the edges. Cook on a medium heat.
  13. When it gets cooked on one side, the edges loosen from the pan slightly. Flip it and cook on the other side as well. Make sure it is cooked on both the sides until crisp.
  14. Serve adai dosa with coconut chutney or aviyal.

Unlike dosa, you do not have to ferment the Adai batter. Adai is usually made in many Tamil Brahmin households during Karthikai Deepam. The Adai Dosa Batter or Adai Maavu does not require any fermentation and can be made instantly. Traditionally Side Dish for Adai Dosa is AVIAL, a Kerala Mixed Vegetable that is also Vegan and Gluten Free. Adai and Avial is a wonderful combination and a healthy brunch idea too for weekends.

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