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    Home » Breakfast Recipes » Traditional Indian Breakfast Recipes » Oats Adai | Oats & Lentils Adai Premix| Vegan

    Oats Adai | Oats & Lentils Adai Premix| Vegan

    Mar 19, 2021 · Modified: Jan 15, 2023 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

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    Oats adai, a delicious breakfast made with oats and mixed lentils premix. A quick, no soak adai, and a vegan recipe, that gets ready in 30 minutes.

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    Table of contents

    • What is Adai
    • Varieties of Adai
    • Oats Adai – No Soak Adai
    • The Ingredients
    • Step by Step Instructions
    • More Breakfast Recipes
    • Recipe
    • More Chutney Recipes
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    What is Adai

    Adai is a healthy, protein rich, nutrient dense breakfast. A South-Indian style pancake made of rice and lentils. A quick and easy thick dosai like dish, which doesn’t need any fermentation. A quick soak for 3-4 hours, ground and poured immediately. So, Adai is a convenient recipe for many like me. I soak the ingredients overnight, grind it fresh in the morning, serve it for breakfast.

    The traditional adai is made of rice and lentils and is naturally a vegan dish. Soak the ingredients for 3-4 hours minimum, grind it with chilies and spices. Usually, adai batter doesn’t need any resting, but doing so, for an hour or two, enhances the flavor of the adai. Since, Adai ground with necessary spices, it usually doesn’t require any chutney or sides and served with just butter and jaggery.

    Adai & Aviyal, a stew made of mixed vegetables, cooked with coconut and chilies masala, topped with sour curd, is a popular dish in Tamilnadu and served as a weekend special in many restaurants.

    Varieties of Adai

    Adai can be made of other grains too. Barley Adai, made of barley and lentils. A mixed millet adai, made of 4 different millets and lentils. Jowar adai, made of sorghum and lentils. Varagu arisi adai, made of kodo millet and lentils. Another healthy multigrain adai, made of 7 different grains and lentils.

    Oats Adai – No Soak Adai

    Coming to today’s recipe Oats Adai, a quick no soak adai recipe. I have made a coarse powder of oats and lentils and mixed it with water to make a thick batter.

    This makes this recipe quick and easy. The Oats and lentils can be powdered ahead, and used whenever you want a quick meal.

    Adai with oats

    I have added a delicious tempering of chilies, curry leaves and carrots to this batter, that makes the adai more colorful and flavorsome. You can onions, peas or even corn to this batter. A quick breakfast that gets ready in 30 minutes.

    The Ingredients

    • Oats, I have used whole oats. You can also use quick cooking oats in the recipe.
    • Lentils, I have used a mix of moong dal, masoor dal and peanuts in the recipe. You can also add chana dal and tuvar dal or a mix of all four dals.
    • Rice, for crispy adai. Without rice, the adai will be soft, so a small amount of rice is added for the crispness. I have used basmati rice here, you can add any short grain rice.
    • Vegetables, I have added shredded carrots in the adai batter. As I have mentioned earlier you can use peas, corn, and onions too in the batter.
    • Spices, I have used ginger and chilies, to flavor the batter.
    • Tempering, regular tempering ingredients like mustard seeds, hing and curry leaves is used.

    Step by Step Instructions

    Please check recipe card below for exact measurements of each ingredient used and also for the detailed instructions

    • Measure oats, moong, masoor dal, peanuts, and rice into a flat plate. Take all the ingredients in a mixer. Grind it to a fine coarse powder.
    • Take this coarse powder in a bowl, add required water to make a pourable batter.
    • To this batter add a tempering of mustard seeds, chilies, ginger, curry leaves and shredded carrot to the batter. Mix well and let it sit for 10 minutes.
    Oats adai making
    • Heat a pan, pour a ladle of batter in the center, spread a little, make a hole in the center, this ensures the pancake cooks evenly. Drizzle gingely oil. Cover and cook the adai for a minute or two, in a simmer flame. Flip and cook on the side.
    • Remove the adai and serve it warm with side of your choice or just butter and jaggery.

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    Recipe

    Oats Adai | Oats & Lentils Pancake | No Soak Vegan

    5 from 6 votes
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    Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Dinner
    Cuisine: Asian, Indian, South-Indian
    Keyword: Adai recipe, Easy adai recipe, How to make adai, Oats for breakfast, Oats recipe, Quick adai recipe, Readymade adai mix flour
    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 20 minutes
    Total Time: 30 minutes
    Servings: 4
    Calories:

    Equipment

    • Indian style mixie or any heavy blender
    • Cast iron pan/Tava for making the adai/pancake

    Ingredients

    • 1 cup Whole oats quick cooking can also be used
    • ¼ cup peanuts
    • ¼ cup moong dal split yellow lentils
    • ¼ cup masoor dal pink dal
    • ½ cup rice I have used basmati, any short grain can also be used
    • 1 no carrot peeled and shredded
    • 3 cups water As required to make batter
    • 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
    • few coriander leaves chopped

    Tempering

    • 1 teaspoon oil
    • ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds/kadugu
    • ¼ teaspoon cumin seeds/jeera
    • 3 nos green chilies finely chopped
    • ½ inch ginger root peeled and chopped fine
    • ⅛ teaspoon hing/asafoetida
    • a sprig of curry leaf

    Instructions

    • Measure Oats, both the dals, peanuts and rice into a flat plate. Take the ingredients into a mixer and grind to a fine powder. It can't be ground super fine, it will fine but a bit coarse powder.
    • Take this ground powder into a bowl. Add salt and around 2 cups of water first, using a whisk stir to a make batter. The batter thickens as it rests. So add 2 cups first then we will add more as required. Let this batter rests for 10 minutes.
    • While the batter rests, let us make the tempering. Heat a pan with oil, splutter mustard seeds, crackle cumin, add chopped chilies, ginger and curry leaves to it. Saute for a minute. Finally add shredded carrots to this and saute for another minute for the carrots to wilt a bit.
    • Add this tempering and chopped coriander leaves to the batter and mix well. Add another 1 cup of water to the batter and mix again. As i mentioned the batter thickens as it rests.
    • Heat a tava, i used my cast iron tava for making the adai. Pour a ladle of batter in the center and spread into a circle. Do not spread too thin, adai is usually thick.
    • Spread the batter a bit into a circle using the back of ladle. Make a hole in the center, this ensures even cooking. Drizzle a teaspoon of gingely oil all over and the edges. Cover and cook in a medium flame for a minute or two.
    • Open the cover, flip and cook the other side for another minute. Remove the adai to a serving plate.
    • Serve the adai warm with any side of your choice. I served with Peanut-coconut and sesame chutney.

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    Serve this quick and easy Oats adai hot straight from the tava and enjoy it with a side of your choice. I served it with flavorsome Peanut-coconut-sesame chutney.

    Adai dosai with oats

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    1. Priya Suresh

      February 03, 2010 at 2:06 pm

      Adai looks incredible and yummy…

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    2. Jagruti

      February 03, 2010 at 5:28 pm

      very healthy and delicious adai…
      first time here..u have a nice space and recipes..
      following you..
      cheers and do visit if you can
      Joy Of Cooking

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    3. Rachel

      February 03, 2010 at 6:24 pm

      Thanks for this delicious recipe submission for My Legume Love Affair #20. Look for the roundup after the Feb. 28th deadline.

      Reply
    4. lata raja

      February 03, 2010 at 9:03 pm

      Super adai priya. I am glad you had a great time.

      Reply
    5. Rajani

      March 20, 2021 at 8:39 pm

      5 stars
      Quite an easy recipe to prepare. I usually grind adai the traditional way so it’s time consuming. Have to try this recipe soon!

      Reply
    6. Usha Rao

      March 20, 2021 at 9:20 pm

      5 stars
      Making adai with powdered lentils and oats is a very convenient recipe when unprepared and don’t have a breakfast plan. I skipped carrots and used different lentils. It was a filling breakfast!

      Reply
    7. Harini Rupanagudi

      March 21, 2021 at 1:58 am

      5 stars
      Very interesting way to make adai without soaking. The pictures look very tempting. Shall bookmark and try it out soon.

      Reply
    8. Radha

      March 22, 2021 at 9:47 am

      5 stars
      This is a delicious one! I love the idea of adding peanuts. No soak instant one and healthy too. Great recipe!

      Reply
    9. Vaishali

      March 23, 2021 at 9:32 pm

      5 stars
      Nutrition packed breakfast, the Adai looks nice and colourful too. The idea of adding the tempering to the batter is great – I am sure the flavours will infuse and make the adai more delicious .

      Reply
    10. NARMADHA

      March 30, 2021 at 11:16 pm

      5 stars
      That is interesting oats adai without soaking. Look so easy and quick to make. I always forget to soak the lentils and this is very useful in those times. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

      Reply

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