Ingredients
- Parboiled / Idli Rice – 1 cup
- Raw Rice – ½ cup
- Urad Dhal – ½ cup
- Bengal Gram Dhal – 1 tablespoon
- Thuvar Dhal – 1 tablespoon
- Black Pepper – 1 tablespoon
- Cumin (Jeeragam) – 1 teaspoon
- Fresh coconut grated – ½ cup
- Coconut cut into tiny bits – 1 to 2 tablespoons
- Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
- Oil – as required
Directions
- Soak rice and dhals for about 4 hours. Wash and drain the water. Put it in a mixie along with pepper, jeera and salt. Grind it to a coarse paste. Before removing, add coconut gratings and run the mixie for one to two rounds.
- Heat a tawa and grease it with oil. Take a handful of batter and put it on the tawa and spread it with your fingers. Sprinkle few pieces of coconut on the top and pour little oil around the adai. Cook on medium flame till light brown spots appear. Turn it and cook on the other side also.
- Adai prepared in the above method will be slightly hard, but crispy and tasty. If you want softer adai, then add little water and make a thick batter. Pour a big ladle of batter on the Tawa and spread it round. Sprinkle few coconut pieces on top and cook as above.
- This is mostly prepared on “Karthigai Deepam Day” and hence it is also called as “Karthigai Adai”.
- Can be served with Vellam and Vennai (Jaggery and Butter). For spicy taste, serve with Idli Milagai Podi.
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looks beautiful and yummy
Thank you Sapthanaa. Pepper increase our body heat and perfect for winter.
Thanks Ma,
May this day with Barani deepam all prosperity come to You and the Maha karthigai deepam may burn all the hurdles in your path.
Thank you Dhanapal. I too wish you and your family a very Maha Karthigai Deepam.
Can you please let me know the receipe for karadaiyan kozhukattai sweet and salt.
Hi Sujatha,
Thank you for visiting. Since Karadaiyan Nonbu has just over, I think you would have prepared the adai already. I will post it shortly.
Dear Kamala,
I made this adai today and it was yummmy. Only diff is – I had made the batter yesterday and saw your receipt today. I grinded jeera and milagu and mixed to it. Awesome receipe. I couldnt stop eating 🙂 🙂 thanks a lot!
-Anu
Hi Anuradha,
Thank you for your kind feed back and additional information of adding pepper and jeera to the adai batter.
. I prepared this adai. my God, so tasty it was.
Nice to hear that you tried this adai and it was tasty. Thank you Maragatham Vetrivel for the feedback.
Namaskaaram,Kamala Mami,tried out your recipe for Milagu adai today.Turned out to be very delicious.Pepper has a salutary effect.
Thank you Aravind for your kind feed back.
Dear kamala,
Tried your adai today. It was wonderful. My family liked a lot.mikka nandri.
Arthy
Thank you Arthy for the feed back.
hi kamala aunty i have been reading ur dishes since three days finding v intrsting have also cooked brinjal n drumstick kozhambu it was too gud n did nt patience i had before my husband cane for lunch
Thank you Preethi for visiting our site and trying the recipes.