adai

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups parboiled rice

½ cup Bengal gram

½ cup black gram

½ cup tuvar dal

Green chillies/red chillies 3-4

Salt to taste.

Hing

method

Soak the rice and the entire gram and the chillies in 2 cups of water.

Drain and grind with minimum water. The batter need not be as fine as the dosa batter

Warm the skittle and pour 1-2 ladleful of batter and spread it thin. Now pour a little oil on the centre and the sides, roast till golden brown, turn over and cook the other side.

Repeat till all the batter is used.

This can be served coconut chutney, or dry chutney powder.

• my kids like it plain butter.

• What I do is for one rice I add one volume of mixed dal/cereals.

• Sometimes I add grated veggies like cabbage, methi. Etc.(kids hate the veggies.)

• If the day has too much of protein then I add a flake of garlic.