Adai is a protein-rich instant dosa made from a mixture of Black gram, Bengal gram and Rice.
A dosa is a pancake, a crepe that is popular in the Indian subcontinent.
Adai Recipe
To make a dosa generally we use fermented batter, so basically, you need to plan for this kind of dosa. But some dosa can make instantly and adai is one of them.
An adai tastes best hot with homemade butter, more butter, and more butter. This is my personal preference you can eat it with chutney and sambhar and chatni pudi too.
The other dosa that may interest you are
- Onion Uttapam | Uttapam| Ooththappam|Uthappa Recipe,
- Healthy Pesaraattu & Upma with Quinoa
- Ghavan or Ghavene
- Set Dosa, An Indian Crepe
- Schezwan Noodle Dosa
- Masala Dosa
- Cheese Dosa
- Healthy Savoury Dosa~Bloghop Wednesday
- Bread Dosa
Main ingredients to make adai are rice, toor dal, chana dal and urid dal, curry leaves, hing/asafoetida, chillies, onion.
These adai are adapted from Padhu's Kitchen.
Adai Recipe/Adai Dosa Recipe (Indian Lentil Crepes)
- Preparation Time: 10 minutes (excluding soaking time)
- Cook Time: Less than 5 minutes per adai
- Yields: 6-7 adais
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice
- ½ cup toor dal
- ¼ cup chana dal
- 1 tbsp urad dal
- 2 Green chilli
- 3 Red chilli
- ¼ inch ginger
- ¼ tsp asafoetida/hing
- 2 onions
- 2tbsp coconut freshly grated
- 5-10 curry leaves
- Salt as required
- Oil as needed
Method:
- Soak rice and dal together for 4- 5 hours.
- Grind it coarsely along with red chilli, green chilli, ginger, onions, coconut, curry leaves, hing and salt.
- The batter should not be thick or watery.
- Heat a non-stick tawa, pour a ladle of batter, and spread it in a circular motion.
- Drizzle a little oil around the adai.
- As the adai cooks it will get brown spots.
- Flip it over. Use oil if needed.
- After both sides are cooked well, remove from tawa and serve it hot with chutney, sambhar, butter or chutney pudi.
Adai Recipe/Adai Dosa Recipe (Indian Lentil Crepes)
Adai is a protein-rich instant dosa made from a mixture of Black gram, Bengal gram and Rice.
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Servings: 9 pancakes
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Equipment
- Blender
- ta
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- ½ cup toor dal
- ¼ cup Chana dal
- 1 tablespoon urad dal
- 2 green chilli
- 3 dried red chillies
- ¼ inch Ginger
- ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida Powder
- 2 Onions
- 2 tablespoon coconut freshly grated
- 5-10 Curry leaves
- Salt to taste
- Oil as needed
Instructions
- Soak rice and dal together for 4- 5 hours.
- Grind it coarsely along with red chilli, green chilli, ginger, onions, coconut, curry leaves, hing and salt.
- The batter should not be thick or watery.
- Heat a non-stick tawa, pour a ladle of batter, and spread it in a circular motion.
- Drizzle a little oil around the adai.
- As the adai cooks it will get brown spots.
- Flip it over. Use oil if needed.
- After both sides are cooked well, remove from tawa and serve it hot with chutney, sambhar, butter or chutney pudi.
Kalyani says
oh ! this has come out perfectly Arch ! we just like it a lot more thicker and with some red chillies ground too .. am also drawn to the other dosas on ur blog 🙂
Srivalli Jetti says
Those Adais look very crispy and inviting Arch!
Harini Rupanagudi says
OMG that looks so appealing and a perfect one for breakfast.
Priya says
Very crispy and mouthwatering. came out so well. I learnt making adai in 2006 when I started blogging.... we love this.
Priya Suresh says
How crispy those adais looks, serve me those crispy beauties with some spicy chutneys, i can sit and finish them without any guilt.
Srividhya Gopalakrishnan says
Perfect Adai. I can gobble them up with jaggery and ghee. 🙂 Yummm
Sapana Behl says
The dosa looks so crispy and tasty.
Priya Srinivasan says
Wow arch so perfectly done ! I prefer Adai more as it can be done by mixing and matching different grains and lentils !! Looks scrumptious arch !
Vaishali says
Wow Archana ! I could just pick that from the screen . What a beautiful golden crunchy Dosa .
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
How crispy those adais look. We usually grind the adai batter much coarser and hence end up making slightly thicker adais.
Chef Mireille says
adai looks so delicious - would love with chutney
sujitha says
Tempting crepes.. You shared a different method of lentil crepes.. We normally use the dhal in different ratio.. This adai looks so crispy and good..
ArchanaPotdar says
Thanks, Sujitha. Will love to try your method too.
sapana says
Omg those adai dosa looks so crispy and super tasty. I wish I could grab them from the screen.
ArchanaPotdar says
Thanks, Sapana.
Geetanjali Tung says
They look very appealing! Great share! Thank you ☺
ArchanaPotdar says
Thanks.