An Cooking

Adai

This is a very easy tiffin item which will find its way into my kitchen whenever I am short of idly batter. It can be prepared if we plan just one hour in advance. Very handy for bachelors.

Ingredients
Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu)-3/4 cup
Red gram (thuvaram paruppu)-3/4 cup
Peeled broken green gram (pasi paruppu)-1/4 cup
Urudh dhal-1/4 cup
Par boiled rice-3/4 cup
Raw rice-3/4 cup
Red chillies-6
Ani seed-1/2 teaspoon

Soak all the above said items for 45 minutes(including chillies and ani seeds) Put it in the mixie and grind it. The batter should not become very smooth .Adai can be prepared just by adding salt ,turmeric powder and asafoteda alone, if you don’t find time to cut onions or scrape coconut. If you have enough time and want a very tasty adai then continue reading

Ingredients to be mixed in the batter
Small or big onions nicely minced-1 cup
Curry leaf nicely chopped-1 table spoon
Coriander leaf nicely chopped-2 table spoons
Grated coconut-3 tablespoons
Mix the above said items in the batter
As adai should be little bit thick, the batter should also be of thicker consistency. Usually no side dish is needed for adai. It will go very well with little jaggery (vellum)