Multigrain Adai(8-grains Adai)/Multigrain Pancake

After making Barley dosa/Barley Adai and jowar dosa/Adai, i m now making adai with all the grains i have at home. This multi-grain adai will be a definite hit at your place,even if you are into regular adai making or not. The batter can be thinned a little bit to be made as dosai also. I make it as dosai for kuttu and bala and for us it is a thick adai. It tastes divine with aviyal (mixed vegetables with mild coconut masala in yogurt). But can be served with hot sambar and mild chutney of your choic.

Ingredients

¼ Cup of Each of the following

Barley
Jowar/Sorghum
Ragi/Finger Millet
Chana Dal/Gram Dal
Tuvar Dal/Split Pigeon PEas
Horse gram dal/Kollu/Kulith
Dhuli moong/split green gram or green gram whole
Matta Rice/Palakkad Maata Rice (Optional)

Gingely oil for making the adai's

Other Ingredients

5-6 Red Chilies

1 Large Onion

2 sprigs of curry leaves

a small piece of ginger

Forgot to keep Horsegram/Kulith while photographing!

Method

Take the grains all together in a big bowl, wash them twice with water. Soak in water for around 3-4 hours. The level of water should be an inch above the grains.
After the required time, drain the water, take the grains in a mixer, along with other ingredients, add ¼ cup of water and grind well to a batter.

Transfer the batter to another vessel. The batter will be very thick. Add ¼ Cup of water to the batter. If planning to make thin adai or like dosa,then add another ¼ Cup of water.
Heat a Iron skillet/Non-stick pan, pour a laddle of batter in the center, and spread it to circle using the back of the laddle.
Dot the edges with gingely oil. cook until crisp, flip and cook the other side too until crisp. Remove it to a serving plate.