Brown Rice Adai Recipe
Brown rice adai recipe with step by step photos that is served for breakfast or dinner.
Ingredients
- Brown Rice - 1 cup
- Chana Dal - 1/2 cup
- Toor Dal - 1/4 cup
- Urad Dal - 1/4 cup
- Yellow Moong Dal - 1/4 cup
- Whole dry red chilies - 5
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Fennel Seeds - 1/4 tsp
- Garlic - 2 small cloves
- Salt - to taste
To mix in the adai batter:
- Onion finely chopped - 1
- Ginger grated - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida - 2 fat pinch
- Drumstick leaves - 1/2 cup
Other:
- Groundnut oil - to cook
Instructions
To make Brown Rice Adai Batter:
- Wash brown rice and the lentils (dals) together and soak in enough water for 6 to 7 hours. I soak both rice and dals together.
- Add the soaked ingredients either to a mixie jar or wet grinder.
- Add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, garlic pods, whole dry red chilies and grind everything together to a coarse batter using required amount of water.
- The batter should be thick like idli batter. Transfer the batter to a vessel. Add salt and mix well.
- You can either make adais immediately or give it a resting time of minimum 2 hours before you cook.
To make Brown Rice Adai:
- Add finely chopped onions, grated ginger, asafetida, drumstick leaves (you can also add coriander or curry leaves) to the batter and mix well.
- Heat a tawa, add a ladle full of adai batter and spread it all around into a circle. Drizzle few drops of oil all around.
- Wait for the bottom side to cook to a golden brown. This should take 1-2 min over medium-low flame.
- Once done, gently flip the adai and let the other side cook as well.
- Remove on to a plate and continue with the rest of the batter.
- Serve this brown rice adai hot with aviyal, butter, jagerry and chutneys.
