Thavala Adai

தவலை அடை (Thavala Adai)

Thavala Adai is a traditional recipe. There are many methods to prepare தவலை அடை. One of my friend introduced this recipe to me. I researched for this recipe and got many different ways. After trying few, I created my own combination and this method is very easy to prepare. I am now addicted to this taste. My hubby also loves this recipe and he prefers to have this with poondu podi. I will post other methods soon.

Ingredients for Thavala Adai

Grinding Ingredients

Raw rice – 1 cup
Toor dal – 1/2 cup
Channa dal – 1/4 cup
Urad dal – 1/4 cup
Moong dal – 1 tbs
Dry red chilli – 5

Batter Ingredients

Rice & Dal mix – 1 cup
Shredded coconut – 1/4 cup
Hing – 1tsp
Curd – 1 tbs
Salt as needed

Tempering Ingredients

Coconut oil – 1 tsp + for cooking
Mustard seeds & urad dal – 1/2 tsp
Channa dal – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 spring
Green chilli – 1

Directions

Grinding

Take all the grinding ingredients in a mixie jar.
Grind the ingredients into coarse powder.
Store the rice and dal mix in a container.

Batter mixing

Take one cup of ground mix in a mixing bowl.
Pour some hot water in mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
Keep the batter mix aside for 1-2 hrs.
Now take a pan and add a drop of oil and stir fry the shredded coconut for a minute.
Add hing, curd, stir fried coconut and salt to the mixing bowl.
Mix everything well, refer picture for the consistency.

Tempering

Heat coconut oil in a pan and add channa dal, mustard seeds & urad dal.
After the seeds cracked add curry leaves.
Once the leaves popped add them to the mixed batter.

Adai making

Heat half tbs of coconut oil in an iron wok.
Pour one scoop of batter.
Cover the wok and cook in a low medium flame.
After 3 minutes flip the adai and cook again for 2 minutes.
Take the Adai out.
Thavala Adai ready.
Serve the Tavalai Adai with garlic powder (poondu podi).

Notes

This recipe needs lots of oil to cook, if you don’t want to use coconut oil, substitute with any other oil.
I prepared mini Adai here, you can make big size Adai too. Add more oil according to the Adai size.