Friday Food: Paruppu Adai

We normally go out to get our weekly grocery on Friday evenings. I usually get very tempted to eat out or I snack in various places and will not feel up to dinner when we return home. Hence for the past couple of weeks I cook before we go out for the evening and avoid eating outside.

Since we miss eating out on Fridays, I decided to make something interesting today. Adai is something my mom never made when we were growing up. We always stuck to the usual Idli/Dosa and never attempted Adai. I have eaten this at local food joints and have always wanted to make this at home.

When I finally made it today, it was a super hit. Looks like we'll be making this yummy treat many times in the days to come.

Ingredients:

1/2 medium onion
1/2 cup Idli rice
1/4 cup urad dal
1/4 cup toor dal
1/4 cup channa dal
1/4 cup moog dal
1 inch piece of ginger
2 dry red chillies
1/4tsp hing/Asafoetida
salt to taste
1 sprig curry leaves
a few coriander leaves

Soak all the dhals together for atleast 2 hours. Also soak Rice for atleast 2 hours. Drain the water from the soaked dhal and rice. In a grinder/mixer add the dhal, rice, ginger, chopped onion, red chillies, curry leaves, coriander, salt and hing/asafoetita.

Grind everything together with a little water in the consistency of dosa/idli batter. The adai batter will be coarse than that of dosa batter.

Heat the pan which is used for making dosa. Spread the Adai batter in a outward circular motion just like making a dosa. Add a little oil or ghee sparingly on one side and allow to cook for a minute. Flip over and cook the other side. Remove from heat and serve hot.

We polished off our plates of Adai with Mutton Keema Curry.