Karthigai milagu adai is a pepper flavoured lentil adai usually made on karthigai deepam day. This milagu adai is often served for lord along with a smear of homemade butter.
Karthigai Adai
Happy Karthigai Deepam Wishes Everyone!
Even though we don't make this recipe for karthigai deepam in our place. I wanted to share it here. It is a simple adai recipe flavoured with mainly pepper. It is served with some butter on the occasion.
About this Recipe
Milagu Adai Dosa is also one of Thirukarthigai neyvedhyam. According to mythology, when a princess marries, she must leave an elephant she considers her brother and move to her husbands home. So, for every Karthigai deepam occasion, she will prepare elephant leg size milagu Adai, as well as a few other dishes, and keep them as neivedhyam for this festival.
What exactly is Adai dosa made off?
Toor dal, channa dal, urad dal, and moong dal are common lentils that are soaked and ground into a thick batter. In addition, the batter contains jaggery or red chillies, which add a sweet and spicy flavour to the adai dosa. Adai is traditionally served with a coconut and vegetable stew.
Check out other karthigai deepam recipes
Ingredients for Karthigai Pepper Adai Dosa
- Rice / Idli Rice - ¾ cup
- Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - ¼ cup
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - 3 tblspn
- Chana Dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 3 tblspn
- Black Pepper - 2 teaspoon coarsely powdered
- Cumin Seeds - 2 teaspoon coarsely powdered
- Coconut - ½ cup grated
- Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
- Green Chilli - 1 chopped finely
- Salt to taste
- Oil for pan frying
- Water as needed
Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu :
Urad dal has a mildly bitter flavour and a slightly slippery texture that cooks up thick, making it ideal for use as a binding agent in dishes such as idlis and dosas.
Chana Dal / Kadalai Paruppu :
Split Chana Dal Bengal gramme refers to split and polished baby chickpeas. It resembles and tastes like small kernels of sweet corn and is a popular ingredient in Indian cuisine. Chana dal is used in Indian cooking to make tikkis, pancakes, bhajiya, vada, stuffed paratha, sabzi, and dal.
How to Make Karthigai Adai
- Take rice, urad dal, chana dal, toor dal in a bowl. Wash well and cover with water. Soak this for 3 to 4 hours.
- Now drain this and add it to a blender. Make it into a puree. Pour this in a bowl.
- Add all the ingredients except oil and mix well.
- Heat a tawa, grease lightly with oil. Pour a ladleful of batter and make dosa.
- Drizzle oil around the sides. Cook till golden on the bottom. Flip and cook.
- Serve.
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Karthigai Milagu Adai Recipe | Karthigai Pepper Adai
Ingredients
- Rice / Idli Rice - ¾ cup
- Urad Dal / Ulundu Paruppu - ¼ cup
- Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu - 3 tblspn
- Chana Dal / Kadalai Paruppu - 3 tblspn
- Black Pepper - 2 teaspoon coarsely powdered
- Cumin Seeds - 2 teaspoon coarsely powdered
- Coconut - ½ cup grated
- Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
- Green Chilli - 1 chopped finely
- Salt to taste
- Oil for pan frying
- Water as needed
Instructions
- Take rice, urad dal, chana dal, toor dal in a bowl. Wash well and cover with water. Soak this for 3 to 4 hours.
- Now drain this and add it to a blender. Make it into a puree. Pour this in a bowl.
- Add all the ingredients except oil and mix well.
- Heat a tawa, grease lightly with oil. Pour a ladleful of batter and make dosa.
- Drizzle oil around the sides. Cook till golden on the bottom. Flip and cook.
- Serve.
Karthigai Adai Step by Step
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| take all soaking ingredients and soak them for 3 to 4 hours |
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| drain them |
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| add to a blender |
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| make into a fine puree |
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| pour it in a container |
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| add salt |
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| add crushed jeera and pepper |
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| green chillies and curry leaves |
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| add coconut |
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| mix well |
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| add water to adjust the consistency |
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| heat a pan, pour a ladleful of batter in |
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| make dosa |
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| drizzle oil around the sides and cook till golden on both sides |
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| Serve |
Lalitha Jairam
I want to try this recipe. Can I make it with brown rice instead of white rice?