Vegetable Adai is a close cousin to Dosa and is very popular in South India. This is a delicious & nutritious dish made with mixed vegetables. Serve with coconut chutney or avial for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
This dish is perfect for the little kids who refuse to eat vegetables. You can incorporate almost any vegetable and they would not notice.
At the same time it is also relatively easy to make this as all you need is just the batter.
Vegetable Adai Recipe
A delicious and healthy dish for any meal of the day.
Ingredients for Vegetable Adai
For Adai Batter:
How to make Vegetable Adai
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To make the adai batter, take a bowl, add the rice, chana dal, toor dal, red chillies, curry leaves.
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Wash them in water for 2 or 3 times.
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Add water until all the lentils are soaked properly.
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Take a blender and add all the soaked lentils along with asafoetida and salt.
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Blend them to a coarse paste.
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Adai batter is ready to cook.
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Add the vegetables, ginger, garlic, green chillies, cumin powder, salt to the batter.
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Mix them thoroughly using water.
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Pour the prepared batter and spread them gently.
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Once cooked on one side, flip over and cook the other side.
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Serve hot with any chutney or podi.
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Sunitha Karthik is a food lover who loves experiment with food. She worked in BPO industry for several years before deciding to settle down with family. She is a self-taught cook who has learnt to cook by experimenting with ingredients and watching various cooking shows. Mother of two kids and supporting her husband's business, she still finds time to cook up a storm in the kitchen.
