08/15/2025
Healthy South Indian Recipe:
Traditional South Indian dish called Adai (Thick lentil pancakes).
Adai is a very healthy dish made with a mix of lentils soaked and ground into a batter and then cooked on the pan. It is packed with fiber and protein. In this recipe I added some veggies to make it even healthier.
🧾Recipe:
Ingredients
1/2 cup of Toor dal (pigeon peas)
1/2 cup channa dal (yellow split peas)
3/4 cup moong dal
1/4 cup urad dal (black gram lentils)
1/2 cup of raw rice (for crispyness)
Soak all of them for a couple of hours and then grind them coarsly. Add salt, asafoetida (hing), and curry leaves.
These can be made into thin pancakes by grinding finely with a little more water.
🌿For this recipe take desired amount of batter and add chopped veggies and follow the video.
I used onions, red peppers, cucumbers (sub zucchini if you like), green chillies.
Shredded carrots can be added as well.
Turmeric powder, chilli powder. ginger.
Roasted peanuts or cashews can be added as well.
Nutrition:
✅ High in fiber
✅ High in protein
✅ Ayurvedic healthy - All six tastes: sweet from rice, astringent lentils, salt, sour from the yogurt dip and pickle, bitter from peppers, spinach and pungent spices.
✅ Filling and satisfying and can be eaten for any meal or as a snack. Only portion will vary.
😋Thick adai (traditionally) is also called Thavala adai which is a slight variation where the lentils are soaked, dried, powdered coarsely and then mixed with sour yogurt and then made it in the pan as shown.
