iNombu Adai
Karadayan Nombu : (March 14th) Karadayan nombu is a religious function observed by women in memory of Savithri who saved her husband Satyavan from the clutches of God of death-Yama. This special Adai is made and offered to God on this day (March 14th)
Ingredients
- Fried rice flour................2cups
- Powdered jaggery..........2cups
- Water .......................... 2cups
- Coconut pieces..............quarter cup
- Cardamom powder........1 tsp
- Karamani payaru
- (Lobhiya in Hindi
- and small brown beans ), ........quarter cup
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| Roasted rice Flour, Karamani and coconut flakes |
Method
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| Nombu Adai |
- Cook the payaru in cooker
- Fry the rice powder. Add water , jaggery mix well and boil.
- Strain the jaggery syrup .
- When it boiled add cooked beans, coconut rice flour and cardamom powder.
- See that it does not form lumps.
- Take little oil or ghee grease the idli vessel.
- Take a lemon size dough and flatten in a round shape and make a hole in the centre.
- Steam them for about 10 minutes. Eat them with butter.
Kara Adai(salt Adai)
Ingredients
- Fried rice flour................ ........2 cups
- Cooked small kidney beans.... 1/4cup
- Pieces of coconut................... 1/4 cup
- Water......................................2 cups
- Hing....................................... a pinch
- Water..................................... 2cups
- Mustard ........ ........................1 tsp
- Urad dhal............................... 2 tsp
- Green chillies........................... 3
- Chopped.ginger....................... 1 tsp
- Curry leaves.............................few
- Red chilli.................................1
- Oil..........................................2 tsp
- Salt to taste
Method
- Heat a pan with oil add mustard , dal ,chilli, ginger and curry leaves.
- When the mustard splutter , add water,cooked kidney beans,, salt and coconut.
- When the water boils add the rice powder .
- Mix it with out forming lumps.
- Take lemon size dough(wet your hands) flatten it in plantain leaf or idli vessel and steam them.
- Tips
- Add the flour when the water boils. If the dough is very thick add little hot water and mix it.
