Kollu Adai Recipe | Horsegram Adai Recipe

Posted on Feb 9th, 2023

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Breakfast Dishes

5 from 2 votes

Kollu Adai very healthy and fiber rich adai made with horse gram and mixed dals along with spices. Relish this adai with Jaggery, Butter or Aviyal. Learn here how to make this Kollu Adai with step by step instructions and video!

Prep Time 4

Cook Time 40

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Kollu Adai, a protein-rich delicious adai made with Horsegram. Horsegram is rich in protein, fiber and it is a high recommended pulse for weight loss. Because of the richness of fiber, this adai will be so filling and wholesome food. Adai is usually prepared with raw rice, idli rice and mixed dals. In this Kollu adai, we are going to use horse gram as the main ingredient. Horse gram along with little amount of rice, mixed dals, red chili are soaked and then ground to a coarse batter. The batter is then poured into an iron tawa and cooked to a thick and crispy Adai. Relish this healthy and delicious Kollu Adai with Coconut chutney or jaggery or with Aviyal.

Tips for making Kollu Adai

Soak the ingredients atleast for 4 hours. Soaking helps the dals and horse gram to grind properly.
Adjust the quantity of red chili according to your spice level.
Grind the batter to a coarse and thick batter.
Iron tawa is preferable for adai. It gives a very good texture, color and crispness to the adai.
Cook the adai in low flame till it is golden color on both sides.

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Instructions with Step by Step Pictures:

Take Horsegram, chana dal, idli rice toor dal, red chili in a mixing bowl. Add water and wash all the ingredients thoroughly. Drain the water and add fresh water to soak the ingredients. Soak for 4 hours.

After 4 hours, drain the water from soaked ingredients. Take the soaked ingredients in a wet grinder or mixer grinder. Add ginger, Cumin seeds and Asafoetida.

Grind it to a coarse batter. Take the batter Add salt and give a good mix.

Heat a tawa. Sprinkle water to check if it sizzles. When the tawa is ready, Pour a ladle of adai batter in the middle and gently spread out to a thick adai.

Pour oil around the adai. Make a small hole in the center of the adai and pour few drops of oil. Keep the flame low and allow the adai to cook till the bottom of the adai turns light golden brown. Gently flip the adai and cook in low flame till it is golden brown. Repeat the same for rest of the adai batter.