Monday, May 28, 2007

Adai !

Adai is the favorite dish for everybody in my family. Nothing can beat the taste of adai! Give it a try !

Ingredients

Toor dhall - 1½ cups
Uncooked rice - 1½ cups
Red dry chillies - 4 or 5
Garlic - 8 to 10 pods
Cumin seeds – 2 to 3 tsps
Salt - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
Onion - 2 finely chopped
Curry leaves
Oil

Method
Soak uncooked rice , toor dhal together for 2 hours . grind the rice and toor dhall .while grinding put the red chillies, cumin seeds, garlic pods, turmeric powder and salt. Grind a bit coarsely. Do not grind too smoothly.
Sauté onion and curry leaves. Mix the sautéed onion in the batter.
Heat the tawa and pour a ladle full of batter in it and make adai. Pour oil in the edges of the adai. Wait till it turns golden brown. Turn the adai and again wait till it gets cooked.




Tasty adai is ready to eat .
You can eat it as it is or with chutney ,tomato ketchup.

11 comments:

Tweety said...

Hello Usha,

thanks for visiting my blog and leaving a comment. Let me know how your phulka turns out next time :)

ushaprashanth said...

yeah tweety ! sure.

USHA said...

Hi Usha,
Thanks for visitng my blog and dropping your valuble comment over there.Keep visiting.
Hey by the way Adai looks great and tempting,even i useto do adai once in a while.

Shobana senthilkumar said...

Hi usha,
adai looks tasty...
i will try ur version and give my feedback.Do visit my blog and give ur comments.
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Seena said...

Usha,
I haven't tasted spicy ada yet, only sweet one! where r u staying? am coming there..

ushaprashanth said...

Thank you Usha,Sena,Seena for your comments.Do try this adai.

Seena ,you are welcome!

DEEPA said...

i also them them often at home ...my husband's all time favt ...thks for sharing

Suganya said...

This is looking very nice...I also make it in the same way...

ushaprashanth said...

Hi Deepa and Sukanya!
Thank you for your comments.:))))

Sreelu said...

Usha,

Love adai, had it at a friends house a while ago, boy its very very filling. would love to try your recipe once.

Thanks for stopping by.Added you to my blog roll

ushaprashanth said...

Hi Sreelu!
Thanks for your comment and adding me in your blog roll.Try this recipe you will love it... i hope...