Adai is made out of rice and lentils. Since it contains all types of dhal and lentils, it is very healthy and also tasty recipe. It is usually prepared for breakfast. It goes best with Aviyal. Adai with butter is yummy and rich. We can add onions, carrot, drumstick leaves on adai. It adds respective flavour to the adai.  Here I have made normal and onion adai.

INGREDIENTS

Raw rice – 1/2 cup

Boiled rice – 1/2 cup

Toor dhal – 1/4 cup

Channa dhal- 1/4 cup

Urad dhal- 1/4 cup

Green gram- 1/8 cup

White Channa- 1/8 cup

Black Channa- 1/8 cup

White vatana- 1/8 cup

Green vatana-  1/8 cup

Cowpeas- 1/8 cup

Rajma- 1/8 cup

Nuggets- 1/8 cup

Red chillies – 4/5

Salt – To taste.

• Take all these ingredients, wash and soak in water for 4-5 hours.
• Next day, drain the water and keep aside.
• Grind all the ingredients in the grinder coarsely.
• Add little quantity of water when required. But donot add too much of water.
• The adai batter is ready. Mix Asafoetida.
• In a tava, add 1 ladle of the batter and spread it evenly in round shape.
• Add /2 tsp oil/ghee and allow it to cook till golden brown.
• Then turn it to the other side and cook in the same way.
• The adai is ready and it can be served with aviyal/ idli podi/ butter/jaggery.
• It goes best with Aviyal.

Note: You can add chopped onions in the batter. In that case Donot Add asafoetida.

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