Adai is a evening or dinner time tiffin. The combination of rice and dal is high in protein. My recipe for adai here is normally prepared for Karthigai festival . Its a huge challenge to have 2 adais,especially the one made for Karthigai festival,because of its thickness. There are lots of combination to have adai. Some of the popular combination are Adai with aviyal, moru kootan. In our house my father used to love it with vellam / jaggery, my children love it with rasam and my grandson enjoys it with jackfruit jam (chakka varati)as he calls it.
Ingredients
Raw rice —- 1 glass
Idli rice —– 1 glass
Toor dal —- 1/2 glass
Channa dal —- 1/2 glass
Whole urad dal — 1/2 glass
Dry red chili —- 4
whole pepper —- 1 teaspoon
Coconut cut into small pieces — 2 tablespoon
Asafoetida —– 1/2 teaspoon
Salt —- 1 1/2 teaspoon
Sesame oil
Few curry leaves.
Method
Wash and soak both the rice for 4 hours. Wash and soak dals for 1 hour.Grind the rice with red chili and whole pepper coarsely. Grind the dals separately coarsely. Add salt,asafoetida and mix both the batter well, let the batter be thick.Keep aside for 1/2 hour. Add coconut bits and curry leaves before making adai. Heat a tawa ,apply little oil,lower the heat and spread the adai mav ,sprinkling some water. With the spatula make holes. Pour oil around the adai and in the center. Once the adai is cooked on one side turn it, drizzle some more oil and cook on the other side.
You could add extra water to dilute it little more,so that you can use ladle to pour mav and make adai as you make dosai.
Note — The difference between normal adai and Karthigai adai is the use of normal urad dal, minus pepper and coconut pieces, but still it would taste great.
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