Thursday, October 4, 2012

Karadayan nombu adai

Karadayan Nombu adai/kaara adai

Karadayan nombu is one of the hindu festival which falls in the month of february every year. The main dish for this festival is "nombu adai or kaara adai". It is a rice cake made with rice flour, cowpeas and addition of green chillies, curry leaves, grated coconut etc.,

Let's see the ingredients:

Ingredients:

1 cup rice flour
3/4 cup of water
2-3 green chillies
1 cup cowpeas (karamani) soaked overnight
curry leaves - few
salt to taste
oil 1 tbsp
1/2tsp mustard seeds

Method to prepare karadayan nombu adai or kaara adai:

1. Heat the pan and add water with little amount of salt and 1/2 tbsp oil (preferably gingelly oil) and let it boil for few minutes.
2. Once it gets boiled well, add rice flour slowly and stir continouly with spoon. This is to avoid forming of small balls of rice flour. So you have to keep stirring it well to get the rice flour well mixed with water. Once you start adding rice flour simmer the flame else the bottom of the pan gets burned with rice flour. In tamil we used to say "adi pudichudum"
3. Repeat stirring for few minutes till it becomes non-sticky with pan.
4. Turn off the flame and keep the dough to get slightly cool.
5. In the mean time, cook the cowpeas ( which was soaked in water overnight) in pressure pan. Add little salt to it and get cooked.
6. Heat the pan and add oil. Once it gets heated, add mustard seeds and after it crackles, add chopped green chillies and curry leaves. Fry it for few minutes and switch off the flame.
7. Take large mouth vessel and put the dough to it along with seasoning. Also add the grated coconut and cooked cowpeas to it.
8. use hands to mix it well. If needed add salt to it.
9. Take small rounds of dough and make vada shaped cakes. Repeat the same for the entire dough mix and keep the kara adai cakes in idly maker.
10. Once the idly maker is filled with cakes, switch on the flame and steam cook it for 10 minutes.
11. Karadayan nombu adai or kaara adai is ready now.

heat water

karamani / cowpeas

curry leaves

grated coconut

chopped green chillies

oil

karadayan nombu adai

karadayan nombu adai

karadayan nombu adai

mixed dough

rice flour dough

rice flour


cookingly yours,
vinu

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