Adai

Ingredients:

Boiled rice - 1/2 cup
Raw Rice - 1/2 cup
Bengal gram thal - 3/4 cup
Thoor Dhal - 3/4 cup
Urudh dhal - 2 tbsp
Red chillies - 4 to 6
Somph - 4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tbsp
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Small onions - 250 gm
Curry leaves - 5 to 8 strings
Coriander leaves - 1 small bunch
Salt to taste
Oil

Method.

Clean, wash and soak both the rice together.
Clean, wash and soak all the dhals together for 40 min to 1 hour.

In a blender or grinder grind the rice less than fine. Then grind the dhal, red chillies and somph together coarsely. Mix it with the rice batter.
Peel and slice the onion finely. Squeeze the onions by hand so that the rings seperate.
Chop the curry leaves and coriander leaves.
Mix all the ingredients Rice batter, dhal batter, curry leaves, coriander, turmeric powder, salt, grated coconut and small onions.

Heat the thava and make adai with a laddle of batter like dosa.
Adai will be a little thick. Make a small hole in the middle and pur few drops of oil in that also.

Note: Adai could be served with Red Chutney or Avial. It will also be good with country sugar or Jaggery and butter.
Drumstick leaves could also be added instead of curry leaves and coriander leaves.

Rottupakkoda

Ingredients:

Par boiloed rice (Idly rice) - 2cup
Roasted bengal gram dhal - 1 cup
Red Chillies - 5 to 8
Somph - 2 tsp
Garlic - 3 to 4 clove
Salt - to taste.
Oil

Method.

Clean wash and soak the rice for an hour.
Make a paste of red chilly, somph, garlic and salt in a mixie. 
Grind it in the grinder with little water. when hals done add the paste also and grind it fine. (consistency like adai or idly batter not watery)
In a blender powder the roasted bengal gram dhal (pottu kadalai or odachakadalai). sieve the powder and add to the rice batter.

Now the consistency will be like that of chappathi dough (more or less).
Heat oil in a kadai. Fill the mould with dough and make like murukku. drain and crush the pakkoda.

 

Palampuri

Ingredients

Nendram Palam - 2

Maida - 1 cup

Rice flour - 2 tbsp

Cooking soda - 1 pinch

Salt - 1 tsp

Food color (yellow) - 1 pinch

Oil

 

Method

Peel and slice the bananas. it should be a little riped banana.

Make a batter with maida, rice flour, salt, cooking soda and food color with little water. Make it a little thick (like that of dosa batter).

Heat oil in a kadai. dip the banana slices in the batter and fry well.