Thakkali Adai/Tomato Dal Dosa

For a change i tried our regular Adai with the addition of tomatoes. It come out well, so cripsy and tasty adai. Do give it a try, am sure u will love it.

Ingredients

1. Rice         1 cup(i used sona masoori)
2. Long rain/Basmati rice   1/2 cup
3. Chana dal        1/2 cup +1 tbsp
4. Tuvar Dal     1/2 cup
5. Moongdal        3 tbsp
6. Urad Dal      1tbsp
7. Fenugreek seeds/Methi seeds    1/4 tsp
8. Dry red chillies      5-6 (adjust to your taste)
9. Tomato    3-4 no. large (chopped)
10. Garlic    1 no.
11. Cumin seeds   1 and 1/2 tsp
12. Fennel seeds   2 tsp
13. Hing    1/4 tsp
14. Onion   1medium(finely chopped)
15. Ginger    1 tbsp(finely chopped)
16. Cilantro   2-3 tbsp(finely chopped)
17. Salt   to taste
18. Oil   as needed to toast thakkali adai

Method

• Wash n soak all the ingredients together from "rice to Dry red chillies" atleast for 2 hours.

• After that ,in a blender/grinder first run cumin n fennel seeds then soaked red chillies along with tomato and then add rice n dal grind to little coarse batter with little water.
• The batter consistency should be little thicker than the regular dosa batter.

• Transfer to a bowl add salt n hing powder mix well.
• Then add finely chopped onion,ginger n cilantro mix everything well and the batter is ready to make yummy Thakkali Adai.

• Heat a griddle/tawa, when its hot pour a ladle full of batter n spread in circular motion,make it little thick.
• drizzle oil all around,cook in medium heat wait for 2 minutes then flip the adai/dosa cook till turns crisp n done.
• Then transfer the adai to the serving plate n serve hot with any desired chutney. We enjoyed it with garlic podi and Mint Chutney(with red chili).

Note:
If you are planning to make this dosa for dinner, and grind it by evening then plz refrigerate until use for good taste n result.
Instead of sona masoori can use idly rice also.
This time i used both channa n tuvar dal, if u want u can use either channa dal or tuvar dal. but the combo makes dosa more crisp n healthy too.
If the tomatoes are less sour then add one more tomato.


Linking this recipe to the event,Dish It Out-Tomato n chilli hosting by Reva of Kaarasaram.