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HOW TO DO ADAI DOSA

ADAI DOSA

Smitha Kalluraya
Adai dosa is a healthy dosa made from mixed lentils and rice
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Prep Time 6 hours
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 6 hours 15 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine south indian
Servings 15 Dosa

Ingredients
 

To grind batter -

  • 2 cup Dosa rice / Normal rice
  • 1/4 cup Black Gram / split Urad Dal
  • 1/4 cup Bengal Gram / Chana Dal
  • 1/4 cup split Pigeon peas / tuvar dal
  • 1/4 cup green gram / Moong dal
  • 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds / Methi
  • 2 tbsps Dry green peas, (optional )
  • 2 tbsps Kidney Beans / Rajma, (optional )
  • 2 tbsps Chickpeas / Channa, (optional )
  • 2-3 nos Red Chillies
  • A big pinch Asafoetida/ hing
  • to taste Salt

Spice up Adai: ( optional )

  • 1/2 cup Coconut, (optional)
  • 1 no onion, Chopped
  • handful of drumstick leaves, Chopped ( optional )
  • 3-4 nos Green Chillies
  • 1 inch Ginger, peice
  • few Curry Leaves, chopped
  • few Coriander leaves
  • 1 tsp Jeera / Cumin seeds
  • Turmeric

Instructions
 

  • Take all ingredients mentioned under " to grind batter " in a large bow, wash it with water 1-2 times and soak in water for 4-5 hours.
  • Drain the excess water and grind the ingredients in a mixer or grinder for 20-30 minutes until it reaches dosa batter consistency.
  • Transfer the batter to a container.Add salt and keep aside overnight for fermentation for 2-3 hours.
  • In the morning , mix the batter well , add hing to it.
  • Heat a skillet/tawa .Take a laddle full of the batter and spread uniformly thin dosas, drizzle with little oil/ ghee.Cover the lid for approx 15 sec.Remove the lid and cook over medium flame till it is crisp and golden brown in color all around.
  • Plain crispy Adai Dosa ready to serve...!!! Relish it with coconut chutney / chutney powder / aviyal .But how to make Spicy Adai Dosa ?
  • Coarsely grind coconut, ginger,green chilly and jeera.Add this to the batter along with drumstick leaves,finely chopped (onion+coriander leaves+curry leaves).Keep aside for 5mins so that the flavour gets transferred to the batter.
    HOW TO DO ADAI DOSA
  • After 5 mins,proceed to make dosa.Since you have added onions and other herbs you cannot spread it too thin,it will be slightly thicker and you need to roast on both sides.Spicy Adai Dosa is ready...
    adai dosa recipe

Notes

Note: This post was published on 21st August 2013 and is republished with few edits.
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