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Thursday, 6 September 2012

Kaaradai




Ingredients:

  • Rice - 2 cups
  • Jaggery - 1cup
  • Kaaramani (black eyed peas) - a hand full
  • Coconut - a hand full - cut into small pieces
  • Water - One cup for velladai and One and a half cups for Uppadai.
  • For Tadka - Mustard seeds, Urad dal, Channa dal, Curry leaves and 1 green chilly.

Preparation:


Velladai (Sweet adai)
  • Soak 1 cup of rice in water for about half an hour.
  • Drain the water completely and let the rice dry for just a little while and later grind it into a fine powder.
  • Dry roast this rice flour in a hot tawa till the rice flour turns slightly brown and keep it aside.
  • Dry roast kaaramani separately just till it gets slightly heated.
  • Add a little water and pressure cook kaaramani up to one whistle. Once it is done, use this same water to melt one cup of jaggery.
  • As soon as the jaggery melts, filter it using a tea filter to remove any impurities that may be present in the jaggery.
  • Put the jaggary syrup back on stove and immediately add in the boiled karamani, coconut pieces and roasted rice flour and mix them all together to make a dough. 
  • Turn off the stove and when the dough is cool enough to handle, make small small vadas with a hole in the middle and steam cook them like we do for idlis.
  • Serve them hot with butter.

Uppadai (Salted adai)
  • Follow the same procedure as mentioned above to make rice flour.
  • Heat one tsp oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal, channa dal, curry leaves and green chilly for tadka.
  • Add one and a half cups of hot water to this tadka and slowly add in the rice flour and some coconut pieces, stirring the mixture simultaneously so that no lumps are formed.
  • (This process is similar to that of making upma).
  • Once upma consistency is arrived at, make small vadas with a hole in the middle and cook them in steam for about 15 mins. 
  • Serve them hot with butter.
Note: If the dough is not stiff enough to make vadas, sprinkle some water over it and proceed further.





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