Adai Dosai (Multi Gram Pancakes)

Here is another chettinad dish ........

This is a dosai made of 4 main ingredients, toor dal (red gram ) , Channa Dal (bengal gram ), boiled rice and raw rice. This is served for breakfast or dinner. Let us see how to prepare this 

Ingredients 1 : 

Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) - 1/2 cup

Red gram (thuvaram paruppu) - 1/2 cup

Boiled rice/idli rice  - 1/2 cup 

Sonamasoori rice - 1/2 cup 

Black gram (uluththam paruppu) - 1/8 cup Red Chillies - 5 to 8 or as per your taste

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Ingredients 2 : 

Ginger - 1/4 inch piece 

Curry Leaves - few leaves 

Corinader leaves - chopped 3 tbsp (optional)

Onion - 2 medium size 

Asafoetida / Hing - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp 

Salt - to taste 

Oil - 1 tbsp 

Procedure : 

1. Soak all the items in group 1 ingredients for 2 hours

   

2. Grind the soaked ingredients along with ginger into a coarse batter  

 3. Heat oil in a skillet and add the mustard seeds. After it crackles, add the chopped curry leaves, chopped onion and saute till the onion turns transparent.  

4. Now, add the sauted onion mix into the ground batter. 

5. Add chopped coriander leaves to the batter. 

6. Heat a tawa and pour one laddle full of batter and spread it. 

7. Pour 1 tsp oil and cook it on both sides.

Adai dosai is ready. This can be served with tomato chutney or idli podi. 

Note: If you like, you can add fenugreek leaves or moringa leaves to the batter before making dosai.