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    Karthigai Milagu Adai Recipe

    Last Updated On: Apr 6, 2025 by Aarthi

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    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.

    Table of Contents

    • About this Recipe
    • Ingredients for Karthigai Pepper Adai Dosa
    • How to Make Karthigai Adai
    • 📖 Recipe Card
    • Karthigai Milagu Adai Recipe | Karthigai Pepper Adai
    • Karthigai Adai Step by Step

    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 tsp coarsely powdered
    • Cumin Seeds - 2 tsp 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

    1. Take rice, urad dal, chana dal, toor dal in a bowl. Wash well and cover with water. Soak this for 3 to 4 hours.
    2. Now drain this and add it to a blender. Make it into a puree. Pour this in a bowl.
    3. Add all the ingredients except oil and mix well.
    4. Heat a tawa, grease lightly with oil. Pour a ladleful of batter and make dosa.
    5. Drizzle oil around the sides. Cook till golden on the bottom. Flip and cook.
    6. Serve.

    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

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    Karthigai Milagu Adai Recipe | Karthigai Pepper Adai

    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.
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
    Cook Time: 2 minutes minutes
    Soaking Time: 4 hours hours
    Total Time: 4 hours hours 12 minutes minutes
    Servings: 4 servings

    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 tsp coarsely powdered
    • Cumin Seeds - 2 tsp 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.
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    Karthigai Adai Step by Step

    take all soaking ingredients and soak them for 3 to 4 hours

     

    drain them

     

    add to a blender

     

    make into a fine puree

     

    pour it in a container

     

    add salt

     

    add crushed jeera and pepper

     

    green chillies and curry leaves

     

    add coconut

     

    mix well

     

    add water to adjust the consistency

     

    heat a pan, pour a ladleful of batter in

     

    make dosa

     

    drizzle oil around the sides and cook till golden on both sides

     

    Serve

     


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