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Gunpowder Adai

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A very rich nutritious and healthy breakfast snack good especially for kids and all.

Gunpowder Adai is an exceptional south Indian crispy crepe/ pancake sprayed over with gunpowder which is an amalgamation of flavours made with different types of roasted lentils ground to grainy crunch and has a satisfying nutty flavour. The tinge of... Read More..

About Recipe

How to make Gunpowder Adai

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Prep time
5 mins
Cook time
5 mins
Total time
10 mins
Gunpowder Adai
Author : Vahchef
Main Ingredient : Daal
Servings : 4 persons
Published date : March 18, 2019


Ingredients used in Gunpowder Adai
• Rice - 1 cup.
• Toor dal - 1 tablespoon.
• Chana dal - 1 tablespoon.
• Red chilies - 3-4 numbers.
• Asafoetida - 1 pinch.
• Salt - to taste.
• Gun powder (milagai podi) (as required) - 1 tablespoon.
• Oil - 3-4 tablespoons.
• Water - as required.
Method:
  • In a bowl put in the rice, chana dal, toor dal, dry red chilies and curry leaves. Add water, wash the ingredients nicely once and drain off the water.
  • Put in the asafoetida, salt and add fresh water till all the lentils are cooked properly (do not put excess water) and rest aside for at least for 3-4 hours.
  • Grind them in a blender to a coarse paste. Take a flat non-stick pan and pour 1 spatula batter in the pan and spread evenly from inside out.
  • Make a small hole in the center and drizzle some oil at the edges of the adai and to the center. Cook it on medium flame.
  • Sprinkle some good amount of gun powder over the Adai and spread evenly all over the adai.
  • Cover with a lid and allow it to steam cook for few minutes. Brown it on one side and then flip over to the other side for a minute.

Serve hot with coconut chutney or pickle.






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Gunpowder Adai is an exceptional south Indian crispy crepe/ pancake sprayed over with gunpowder which is an amalgamation of flavours made with different types of roasted lentils ground to grainy crunch and has a satisfying nutty flavour. The tinge of hing (asafoetida) and fresh curry leaves has got an indefinably extra-savory dimension. A very rich nutritious and healthy breakfast snack good especially for kids and all. Originally Adai is a popular breakfast snack from the cuisine of Tamil Nadu. It is a protein and carbs rich food. Adai is commonly known as Adai Dosai and is served with coconut chutney. There are various variations in making the Adai. It tastes extremely awesome, is crispy and light.

Adai is also stomach filling as it is a multi lentil crepe which is made with a mixture of four healthy dals/ lentils like the channa dal, moong dal, tur dal and urad dal, spiced with dry red chillies and fresh peppercorns. Often Adai is flavoured with ginger which also aids in proper digestion. A plain Adai can be eaten with milaga podi and ghee or with fresh white butter. It is high protein food and good for nourishing kids. Addition of fresh curry leaves leaves a earthy flavour on bite and also gives a nice aroma and refreshing flavour while frying the adai. They add exotic aroma and taste to food in additional to the enormous medicinal values it has. It is basically used as a natural flavoring agent.

Curry leaves improve functioning of the stomach and small intestine and promote their action. They improve the quality of digestive juices secreted during digestion. Their action starts with intake. Their smell, taste and visual impression initiates salivary secretion and initiates the peristaltic wave, which is the first step in good digestion. They are mildly laxative and thus can tackle multiple digestive problems caused by food intake. They are directly added to food or an extract in the form of juice is added to buttermilk and consumed at the end of lunch/dinner. Finally they add to taste and have digestive properties.

Recipe of Gun Powder Adai:

  Ingredients:

  1. Rice                                          -       1 cup
  2. Tur dal                                     -       1 tbsp
  3. Channa dal                              -       1 tbsp
  4. Red chillies                             -       3-4 nos
  5. Curry leaves                            -       few
  6. Hing                                          -       pinch
  7. Salt                                            -      to taste
  8. Gun powder (milagai podi) -    as required
  9. Oil for frying

Method:

  1. In a bowl put in the rice, channa dal, toor dal, dry red chillies and curry leaves. Add water, wash the ingredients nicely once and drain off the water. Put in the hing, salt and add fresh water till all the lentils are soaked properly (do not put excess water) and rest aside for at least for 3-4 hrs.
  2. Grind them in a blender to a coarse paste.
  3. Take a flat non stick pan and pour 1 spatula batter in the pan and spread evenly from inside out. Make a small hole in the center and drizzle some oil at the edges of the adai and to the center.
  4. Cook it on medium flame. Sprinkle some good amount of gun powder over the Adai and spread evenly all over the adai.
  5. Cover with a lid and allow it to steam cook for few minutes.
  6. Brown it on one side and then flip over to the other side for a minute.
  7. Serve hot with coconut chutney or pickle.

Gun powder Adai is the excellent choice if you are bored with normal dosa, as it can be eaten on its own. Do make this fresh gun powder adai and encourage your kids in eating nourishes foods.

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stereotype69 Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

holes need to be oiled? :)

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Gowri Sanjeev Oberoi Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

Wow! Awesome :)

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Sudhakar S Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

i could not find the details about gunpowder here...how to make that milagai podi ?

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SubSalac Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

L O L

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sean wilson Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

*facepalm*

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kuchana sandeep Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

Hi can you post chicken madras in restaurant style please

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DestroManiak Posted on Wed Aug 14 2013

the measurements are in the video description! finally! I really appreciate this, thank you.

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Priyanka Pandya.5 Posted on Thu Aug 15 2013

chef i really likes ur recipes, but why dont u reply anyone?

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VahChef Posted on Thu Aug 15 2013

i wish i can reply to every one, i am working 15 hrs a day , reorganizing Vahrehvah working on a show and still not getting time to attend to queries and i just get few hundred queries a day

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2004mgmms Posted on Thu Aug 15 2013

Hi Chef...u might have heard this a thousand times but I am really a big fan of ur youtube channel...u make cooking seem so easy and simple...I have tried cooking a lot of ur recipes and they turn out simply awesome...but I had a qustion for u which

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Radiohouse Posted on Fri Aug 16 2013

Holes needs to be oiled LOL!

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Pienvde Posted on Sun Aug 18 2013

Everytime I watch one of these cooking videos by vahchef I totally change my dinerplans for the evening and end up making one of his delicious recipes....And I'm not even Indian!

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