ADAI DOSA

INGREDIENTS:

TO PREPARE BATTER:

Boiled rice/Idli rice - 2 cups

Chana dal - 1/2 cup
Toor dal - 2 tbsp
Urad dal - 2 tbsp
Red chillies - 7-8 nos ( i used byadgi,if using spicy chillies add 5 nos)
Salt & water - as needed

ADD THE FOLLOWING IN BATTER:

Small onions - 20 nos
Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
Finely chopped ginger - 1 tsp
Finely chopped coconut bits - 1 tbsp ( optional)

PREPARATION METHOD:

1. Wash and soak the rice for 2 hours.Wash & soak the all dals together for 2 hours minimum.
2. While grinding,drain all the water.
3. In a big mixie jar(or in grinder),take the red chillies,salt and hing.
4. Grind it coarsely without adding water.Then add the drained rice and grind it adding required water.Keep the batter aside.
5. Now grind the drained dals coarsely adding less water.
6. Then mix dal batter with rice batter.Add 1/4 tsp of hing.Mix well.
7. Let the batter ferment for 3-4 hours as we want mild sourness.
8. So ferment the batter based on the weather in your place.
9. You can also make this adai instantly without fermenting the batter if u don’t want sourness in the batter.
10. Before making dosa,add finely chopped onions,ginger,coconut bits,curry leaves and mix well.
11. Adjust the consistency of batter adding 1/4 cup of water if it is very thick.
12. Heat dosa pan/tawa and pour a ladle ful of batter.
13. Spread it & make it thick or thin as per your wish.
14. After spreading dosa,keep the flame medium high and drizzle a tsp of oil over the adai.
15. Close it with a lid & cook for a minute.Then flip the dosa,add little oil if necessary & cook for a minute again.
16. Have this dosa with coconut chutney and sambar.