September 3, 2008

Corn meal methi Adai


Corn meal is one of the recent additions to my pantry. I am trying dishes with corn rava by replacing rice/wheat. I have tried kichadi and kozhukkatai with this. Both turned out well. And this is another such recipe which is inspired by the wheat rava adai. Needless to say, this also, is a winner.


Corn meal(rava texture) - 2 cups
Pearl onion(Sambhar vengayam) - 10 nos
Green chilly - 3 nos
Small wedge of ginger
Salt

Onion -1
Chopped methi leaves - 1 cup


Soak the corn meal, with just enough water to cover it, for an hour. Grind the pearl onions, green chilly,ginger and salt together. Add the soaked corn meal and buzz till everything blends well.
Add the chopped onion and methi leaves to the batter.

Take a laddle full of the batter. Lightly spread it in the form a circle. The batter is in semi sold state and corn being gluten free, it doesn't spread like our usual dosa/adai batter. Still it is spreadable. Drizzle oil on all sides. When one side is cooked , flip over to cook the other side. Its crisp on the outside and soft as you bite into it. Also it tastes good when cold too. Methi give a nice flavor to the adai. You can serve with pickle or any gravy.

I liked it with grated jaggery. Jaggery compliments well, the slight bitterness of methi.


Next time, I shall try adding dal to it , as in normal adai.

This is my entry to the current edition of WBB-Grain-In_My-Breakfast, hosted by Aparna, an event started by Nanditha.

Also this is making to the Herb Mania-Fenugreek at RedChillies.

And to JFI-Whole grains, guest hosted by Suganya of Tasty Palettes.

15 comments:

  1. HAPPY GANESH CHATURTHI DEAR.....
    Looks mouthwatering and yumm yumm

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  2. THIS ONE LOOKS YUM,NAD HEALTHY...HPPY GANESHA CHATURTHI...

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  3. HAPPY GANESH CHATURTHI DEAR.....
    Looks yummy & Mouth watering..

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  4. I really like the colour of that adai.

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  5. I eat Adai with jaggery too! How nice to see someone like me...

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  6. What a lovely idea to add cornmeal to adai. That would have made them really crispy: just the way we like them at our home. Happy Ganesh Chaturthi, Jayasree.

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  7. mmm. delicious adai! Nice combo. Happy Vinayaka Chaturthi to you!

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  8. looks delicious..nice recipe..thanks for sharing!!

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  9. This is really nice, Jayasree. I like the crunch that cornmeal adds to dishes.
    Thanks for the entry.

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  10. Very creative idea,Jayasree. I loved the combination of jaggery and methi. Thanks for the entry.

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  11. Healthy BF.. Nice entry for both the evnt!! Happy Vinayaka Chaturthi!!

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  12. happy ganesh!! i should defenitely try this...have some leftover cornmeal after an unsuccessful attempt at baking cornbread ( it came out well..but we dint like it all that much :( )true experimentation!! :)

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  13. Looks tasty! Do we get corn meal here? I thought of using makke ka atta instead!

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  14. This is very unique to me...I've never used cornmeal in cooking. Gotta try it now.

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