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Mangalore Adai (Sweet Lentil Crepes)

Posted by on Jul 8, 2011 in Appetizers, Desserts, Featured | 10 comments

I came across this recipe in a South Indian TV channel food show. I used to make kara adai, paruppu adai and thavala adai. But this sounded like a different recipe so I ended up trying it. It’s absolutely worth a try. Everyone in my family loved this recipe. It came out really tasty.

Adai (Rice pancake) is a popular south Indian breakfast dish and can also be had for dinner. It is made with variety of lentils and rice. It’s actually rich in protein and good for health.


Preparation Time: 30 minutes
No of servings :4-5

Ingredients:

  • Toor dal : 1 cup
  • Channa Dal : 1 cup
  • Raw rice : 1 cup
  • Shredded coconut : 1 cup
  • Jaggery : 500 gms (crushed )
  • Cardamom Powder : 1 tsp
  • Ghee: as needed


Method Of Preparation:

  1. Soak toor dal, chana dal, and raw rice each separately for about 4-5 hours.
  2. Grind the raw rice separately into smooth paste.
  3. Grind both the dals and crushed jaggery into a coarse paste. The consistency should be like a thick paste. Don’t add excess water.
  4. In a wide bowl mix the ground raw rice paste and dal, jaggery mixture.
  5. Mix it all together and add shredded coconut and cardamom powder. Keep this mixture aside.
  6. Heat wide flat pan or tawa. Sprinkle some ghee on the tawa.
  7. Pour the dough in to the wide pan (tawa).
  8. Make it a round shape just like pancake.
  9. Pour some ghee or oil in the center and the sides.
  10. Cover it with lid.
  11. Wait till it become golden brown in color and open the lid. Turn it now.
  12. Once it is done on both sides remove from heat and serve it hot.

10 Comments

  1. Sharmilee / July 8, 2011

    Sweet is sure a nice variation…Looks super yumm

  2. Laxmi / July 9, 2011

    Jaggery is ADAI is definetly new and interesting to me.. Looks perfect..

  3. Jayasree / July 9, 2011

    This is quite different…sweet version of the regular paruppu adai.

  4. Valarmathi / July 9, 2011

    Sweet version adai…sounds interesting and looks delicious.

  5. Shobha / July 9, 2011

    Nice one..we have a similar Sindhi preparation using wheat flour.

  6. Vimitha / July 10, 2011

    sweet adai looks so crispy and yummy dear…

  7. Cynthia / July 10, 2011

    This is intriguing and looks so yummy.

    I really like how you have organized your website.

  8. Raina / July 10, 2011

    These look wonderful, something I would love to try:)

  9. aipi / July 11, 2011

    Delicious n scrumptious!
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  10. Sweet Artichoke / July 18, 2011

    It is only recently that I discovered adai (classical ones) and this idea of sweet adai sounds super delicious, would love to try them!