Ingredients

• 1 cup of raw rice
• 1/2 cup of urad dal
• 1/2 cup of tur dal
• 3 -4 red chillies
• pinch of asafoetida
• 1 tsp. of black pepper
• Salt to taste
• Oil

How to Make Thavalai adai

• Wash and dry the raw rice.
• In a pan, fry the tuvar dal, urad dal, chillies, asafoetida, black pepper slightly till a rich smell comes from it and keep it aside.
• Now grind the dried rice in a blender, coarsely (rava consistency).
• Grind the roasted ingredients in the same way .
• In a bowl, mix all the ground items together with salt and water to a batter consistency.
• Keep this aside for about 6-7 hours.
• In a heavy bottom pan, add this batter and keep stirring until you get a dough (you should be able to make balls from them.
• Make sure you keep stirring continuously or else it will stick on to your pan.
• Take a big ball from that dough and flatten on a tawa, pressing it into a circle. Apply oil on its sides and cook.
• When the bottom is well cooked, flip, cook the other side and apply oil.
• Thavalai adai is ready to taste.