Lentils Dosa (Adai)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Adai is a very favoured breakfast dish in Tamil Nadu. Its prepared with various daals and known for health. I hadn't prepared it for a long time because I didn't have my mom's recipe. I got it from her after starting my blog and here it goes.
Ingredients:
Channa daal - 1/4 cup
Urad daal - 1/4 cup
Thor daal - 1/2 cup
Normal rice - 1/2 cup
Idli rice - 1/2 cup
Green chillies or red chillies - 2
Grated coconut - 1/3 cup
Onion (medium) - 1
Tomato - 1
Ginger - 1 inch
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt
Ingredients:
Channa daal - 1/4 cup
Urad daal - 1/4 cup
Thor daal - 1/2 cup
Normal rice - 1/2 cup
Idli rice - 1/2 cup
Green chillies or red chillies - 2
Grated coconut - 1/3 cup
Onion (medium) - 1
Tomato - 1
Ginger - 1 inch
Asafoetida - a pinch
Salt
Oil
Direction:
1. Soak all the lentils and rices together for 2 hours.
2. Blend all the ingredients along with the soaked rice and lentils using very little water.
3. Make the batter consistent enough to make dosa.
4. After two hours, heat the tawa and pour 1/4 cup of batter on it and spread it around. Add 1 tsp of oil around the dosa. Flip over and fry.
5. Adai can be served with Coconut chutney, Tomato chutney or dosa powder (podi).
Direction:
1. Soak all the lentils and rices together for 2 hours.
2. Blend all the ingredients along with the soaked rice and lentils using very little water.
3. Make the batter consistent enough to make dosa.
4. After two hours, heat the tawa and pour 1/4 cup of batter on it and spread it around. Add 1 tsp of oil around the dosa. Flip over and fry.
5. Adai can be served with Coconut chutney, Tomato chutney or dosa powder (podi).
January 22, 2009 at 5:52 PM
Awesome to find a new blogger here! Welcome! Thanks for visiting...
Your site is very well laid out...
January 22, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Hi.. Thanks for stopping by...
Hope to meet often...
January 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM
Adai looks great with 3 diff. chutneys...all set and ready to eat.mmmmmm
January 23, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Thanks Deepu... 2 chutneys and dosa podi... I invite you to taste them... :)
January 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM
Hi,
You have good collection of recipes.The pictures looks colorful and yummy.
January 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM
Hi Dhanya,
Thanks for the lovely comments!
January 28, 2009 at 4:31 AM
I have also posted an adai recipe just now, but with brown rice and various legumes. Your adai picture is very good. I have never included tomatoes in the batter. Will try it the next time.
January 28, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I went through your recipe for adai and very much impressed with 16 beans as ingredients. Good one Madhuram! Sure try it out with tomato too... gives nice flavour!
April 8, 2009 at 9:26 AM
Priya,
Do we need to blend the onion and tomato along with the rice and lentils?
April 8, 2009 at 10:28 AM
=> Hi anonymous,
Yes, we have to blend onion and tomato along with rice and lentils.
Thanks for stopping by. Hope it helps! :)
April 8, 2009 at 12:01 PM
Priya,
Thanks for the quick reply. I haven't heard of blending onion and tomato along with rice and lentils. Will try and let you know.
All of your recipes look good. Especially the Rava Laddu picture is mouth watering.
Are you from Madurai?
Thanks,
Padma
April 8, 2009 at 6:44 PM
=> Hi Padma, thanks for stopping by and taking time to leave me a comment... Really appreciate it :)
I'm from Salem. Guess you are from Madurai.. Keep in touch! Have a great day!! :)
April 9, 2009 at 6:38 AM
Yes Priya! Your guess is right.
Thanks,
Padma
April 13, 2009 at 5:23 AM
Priya,
I made the Adai Dosa over the weekend. It came out really good.
Thanks for the wonderful recipe.
Padma
April 13, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Thanks Padma, for letting me know. Makes me really happy! Keep rocking! :)
August 18, 2010 at 8:36 AM
Hi Priya,
For a long time now I have been waiting to stumble into a blog that offers me simple recipes on everyday cooking. Your blog does this so beautifully with such delightful pics and simple instructions. Let me try out your awesome looking dishes and let you know if I managed to do justice to them! Thanks a ton.
Cheers
Abitha