Millet Adai (Sirudhaniya Adai)

We can call this Adai with many names like healthy Adai, protein rich Adai, nutritious Adai because we are adding millets and dal instead of rice that serves as a healthy nutrition to our body.Iam using Barnyard Millet in this recipe which is low in calories,rich in fiber,gluten free food and a good source of iron.

Cooking time: 10 mins

Serving: 3 - 4

Ingredients:

Barnyard Millet - 1/2 cup
Tuvar dal - 1/4 cup
Channa dal - 1/4 cup
Moong dal - 1 tspn
Uraddal - 1 tspn
Red chilli - 10
Fennel seeds - 1 tbsn
Cumin seeds - 1 tbsn
Asafoetida - 1/4 tspn
Coconut - 1/4 cup (grated)
Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Drumstick leaves - 1 cup
Oil for cooking adai dosa
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Grab all the ingredients.

2. Soak all the dals and millet separately in a bowl for an hour.

3. In a mixer jar add fennel seeds, cumin seeds, red chllies, salt and asafoetida. Give it a pulse 2-3 times.

4. Add the soaked millet  into the above mixture and grind it to fine paste.

5. Transfer to a bowl.

6. Now grind all the soaked dals into a fine paste.

7. Transfer to the millet mixture.

8. Add coconut, drumstick leaves and onions to the above mixture.

9. Mix the batter well with required water for a dosa batter consistency.

10. Heat a dosa tawa and spread a ladle full of batter like uthappam.Spread oil around the edges. Cook well for a minute.

11. After a minute flip the Adai n cook again.

12. Healthy Millet Adai is ready to serve. It goes well with coconut chutney.

Notes :

You can do the same adai with foxtail, kodo and little millet too.

Some may think whether the drumstick leaves cooks well while adding directly to the batter, but don't worry about that, it cooks well. If you are not ok with that saute the leaves in little oil and add to the batter. Adding drumstick leaves gives a nice aroma,So kids who hates to eat drumstick leaves can be fed by this way.