Chickpea Adai

This is a very good breakfast recipe as it is made of chickpea it will not make you hungry soon unlike the normal dosa.

Ingredients:

White Chickpea – 2 cups

Rice – 1 cup

Red Chilli – 6

Ginger – ½ inch

Salt – 1 ½ teaspoon

Onion – 2 medium

Coriander and Curry leaves – 1 tablespoon each

Coconut – ½ cup (grated)

Oil – ½ cup

Seasoning:

Asafoetida – 1 pinch

Oil – 1 teaspoon

Mustard – ½ teaspoon

Black gram dal -1 teaspoon

Bengal gram dal – 1 teaspoon

Method:

1. Soak the chickpea along with rice overnight (or at least for 6 hours and ensure to change the water after 3 hours)
2. Grind red chilli, ginger, salt along with the chick pea and rice to form a coarse paste.
3. To the chickpea paste add chopped onion, coriander and curry leaves and grated coconut.
4. For seasoning, add one teaspoon oil in a frying pan. Add the mustard seed, black gram and Bengal gram dal and Asafoetida to the hot oil.
5. Add the seasoning to the chickpea mixture.
6. Heat a pan and add a ladle full of the seasoned chickpea mixture at the centre and spread it to form a dosa, add one teaspoon of oil and cook the dosa on both sides till it is crisp.
7. Serve the adai with tomato ketchup or any of your favorite chutney.