Adai

Dosa variety

Ingredients

1 cup tuvar dal, chenna dal, urad dal
2 cups boiled rice or rice
Red chillies 5 or 6 or 6 green chillies
Ginger
Chopped curry leaves 1/4tsp
Asafoetida powder 1 tsp
Coconut grated (optional)
Salt to taste
Cilantro chopped
Oil for pan frying

Get Cooking!

1. Soak the dals & rice together for about 2 hours.
2. Drain and grind coarsely with the chillies, salt, cilantro, ginger, curry leaves, asafetida, coconut into a batter to make a dropping consistency.
3. Proceed to make like dosas—heat tawa or griddle, pour a little oil then some batter and spread out into a circle.
4. Make a small hole or a couple in the middle of the adai. Pour a little oil all around and a little bit in the holes. Cook on medium heat.
5. Once the bottom side is browned up (will come off clean once done), flip it over, cook until that is brown.
6. Serve with coconut chutney or milagai podi and sambhar.

Tips
Can enhance this by adding chopped onions to the batter. Some add peas or cubed, peeled potatoes in which case the adai will be thicker.
I once replaced the rice with cracked wheat, cut some tomatoes, onions and made the batter…the adai came out pretty good.
My mum asked me to soak the rice separately and the mix of dals separately and then grind them separately. This turns out real good too 😀 Easy to get the right consistency 😉

Stuffed Capsicum/ Bell peppers

Ingredients

Capsicum / bell peppers
Potatoes steamed, peeled, cut into small cubes
Black beans soaked, drained, steamed with a little salt (or you can use drained canned beans :))
Onions chopped
Red chilli powder
Tomatoes
Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
Mustard seeds
Salt
Oil
Spring onions
Grated cheese

Get Baking!

1. In a pan, season the mustard seeds in a little oil.
2. Add chopped onions when the mustard seeds start to crackle. Fry them till they are a little golden brown.
3. Add the tomatoes. Fry this for a minute or two. Add the black beans.
4. Add the potatoes. Add the salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, a little water
5. Mix well; cook until it becomes a solid mass, stirring it now and then such that it does not burn!
6. Cut the top of the capsicum, scoop out the seeds.
7. Spray some oil to coat the capsicum.
8. Fill the capsicum with the potato-black beans curry. Top it with some chopped spring onions and grated cheese.
9. Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees
10. Place the stuffed capsicums into the oven and bake till the capsicums are cooked.

Tips

The capsicums can be fried instead of baked too. Use your imagination for the stuffing. Instead of the potato stuffing, you could use paneer, cauliflower…whatever!!!