Break fast recipe : Adai

 Adai is a protein rich breakfast. It can be made in different combinations of dal and rice.

You can choose any proportion according to your taste and convenience. 

Ingredients:

Combination: 1

Raw rice: 1cup 

Par boiled rice : 1cup 

Toor dal : 1/2 cup

Chana dal : 1/2 cup

 Moong dal : 1/2 cup

Urid dal  :  1/2 cup

Red chili - 10

curry leaves - few

Hinge - 1/4tsp

Grated coconut - 3/4 cup or 1/2cup (Optional)

Coconut oil/cooking oil for making adai.

Combination :2

Same as above. Raw rice - 2 cups and no par boiled rice.

Combination :3

You can use dals with skin, like whole green/moong dal, whole urid dal and also add  masoor dal 1/2 cup

Combination :4

You can add equal proportions of rice and dal. Rice 1 cup and each dal 1 cup. 

Combination :5 

Same combination as that of the first, and add 1/2 cup of wheat rava after soaking for 1/2 an hour separately.

Method : 

1. Soak urid dal alone separately and soak the rest of all the ingredients together along with red chili. Do not add coconut for grinding.
   
   
   
2. Soak for 3 hours.
3. Grind urid dal separately into fine paste as we do for dosa batter.
4. Grind the rest of the ingredients into a coarse batter. Add few curry leaves while grinding.
5. You need not ferment. Add coconut and mix well.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Heat dosa pan and add a ladle of batter. Spread it into circular shape as we do for dosa. make a hole at the center and add coconut oil around the adai and at the center hole. 
7. It takes time to get cooked unlike dosa. 
8. Flip the other side and keep it for few seconds and remove from the pan.
9. Serve hot with ghee. You can use idli milagai podi or jaggery as a side dish.
10. Avial also can be a good combination.
    
    
    

Tips:

• You can use even ragi. But ragi should be soaked separately. Grinding ragi also should be separate.
• Coconut can be added after grating or we can cut the coconut into small bits as that of the tooth of the comb.
• You can grind all the ingredients together or urid dal separately. If you grind urid dal separately you can get soft adai or crispy adai as you wish. The taste also will be bit different.
• If you grind all the ingredients together  you can only get crispy adai.
• Using coconut oil for making adai will give a good aroma to the adai and added taste.