Monday, June 2, 2014

Adai Dosa

Ingredients
Salt-as required
Hing-1 tsp
Oil-to make dosa

To soak and grind
Idli rice-1/3 cup
Toor dal-3 tbsp
Channa dal-3 tbsp
Urad dal-1 tbsp
Green moong dal-2 tbsp
Yellow moong dal-2 tsp
Horse gram/kollu-2 tbsp
Peanuts-1 tbsp
Chick pea-2 tbsp
Poha-1 tbsp

To grind spice and add to batter
Small onion-8
Garlic-4
Ginger-2 inch piece
Cumin/jeera-1 tbsp
Black pepper-1 tsp
Red chilli-4
Curry leaves-little

Method
Soak the rice and dal together for atleast 6-7 hrs.
Grind it coarsely.The batter should not be watery nor thick.

Separately,grind the spices to a coarse and add to the batter. add hing and salt to the batter.
Heat the dosa tawa. pour a ladle of batter and spread it as we do for dosa. add a tsp of oil around it.
let it cooked and flip to the other.if need drizzle some oil and let it cooked.

Serve it with coconut chutney or tomato chutney.
Yields 10-11 adais.

Variations
You can also add a handful of keerai(any variety) or grated carrot,cabbage to the batter.

Notes
Always cook the adai in medium flame,so that it evenly gets cooked.
Preserve the soaked water.use it when grinding the batter.
If you find difficult to grind chick peas and peanuts in grinder,soak it separately and grind it in mixie.
Replace red chilli with green chilli.
No fermentation required.

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