Adai dosa can be made thick or thin, soft or crisp all to suit your taste. To make adai dosa recipe, mixed dal/ lentils like chana dal, toor dal, moong and urad dal are used along with rice. Similar to the plain dosa recipe, each family has their own proportion of dals and rice.
Ingredients for adai recipe. ¾ cup rice (idly rice or short grain parboiled rice like sona masuri or ponni) ¼ cup chana dal or split skinned bengal gram. ¼ cup toor dal or split skinned pigeon peas. 2 tbsps moong dal or split skinned green gram. 2 tbsps urad dal or split skinned black gram. ¾ to 1 inch ginger.
When you are ready to make the adai, add 2 tbsps chopped coriander leaves, 1/8 tsp hing, 1 small onion fine chopped and salt. Do not add lot of onions it becomes difficult to spread the adai batter. 10. Mix everything well. You can add water to bring the batter to consistency.
Many homemakers have their signature way of making this dosa and add their own elements to it. The end result leads to a crispy and crunchy dosa that kids will enjoy a lot. It is also a supremely healthy recipe that you can easily try at home. Soak all the ingredients - chana dal, tuvar dal, urad dal and rice for about 3 to 4 hours.