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Sweet Ragi Adai | How to make Ragi Sweet Rotti

Dec 29, 2020 · Modified: Apr 26, 2025 by Priya_Srinivasan ·

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Sweet Ragi Adai, a sweet pancake/rotti made with ragi flour, jaggery, fresh coconut and nuts. A delicious adai that can be served for breakfast or as a evening snack.

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  • The Food Memory
  • What is Ragi?
  • How to make Ragi Sweet Adai
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Sweet Ragi Adai

The Food Memory

The delicious sweet ragi adai, featuring today is my mom's specialty. I miss going home this year. Until 2019, July & august months would be my vacation, where i enjoy 5 weeks of bliss at mom's place. Everyday, I wake up to the smell of freshly brewed filter coffee or aromatic tiffen sambar made to pair with morning idly/dosai. This actually is a blessing for people, like me, who have to wake up early everyday and make their own coffee. Thanks to the virus and the travel restrictions this year, we are made void of these little pleasures.

Sweet finger millet adai

Amma makes a variety of tiffen/snack using Ragi and Ragi Flour. One of them is this delicious Adai.  During my stay, i try to record some of her specialty dishes, for myself and the blog. This sweet ragi adai and the savory ragi adai were made exclusively for my blog.

What is Ragi?

Ragi/nachini or finger millet comes under group of millets. Ragi flour, a powdered form of ragi grain. Millets, are a group of cereals which are mostly tiny in size, round in shape. There are about 6,000 varieties of millet throughout the world in different colors.

Ragi/nachini is known better to us than other millets. It is introduced as weaning food in babies. Like any other millet, ragi is gluten-free and rich in B vitamins, calcium, iron, potassium, magnesium, and zinc. Both my kiddos enjoy ragi malt made with cashewnuts. My personal favorite is, savory porridge with ragi, the best summer drink ever.

I love to include millets in our regular meal, i dont make it look like some diet food by cooking it separately. The Instant ragi dosa, one of our goto breakfast, whenever i run of out regulary idly batter. We love this Ragi dosa, made with whole ragi and urad dal.

How to make Ragi Sweet Adai

Please check the recipe card below for the ingredients measurement and detailed recipe instructions.

  • To make ragi sweet adai, take ragi flour, cardamom powder, nuts powder in a large bowl, mix well together.
Ragi adai ingredients
  • Melt jaggery in water and strain for impurities. Add jaggery water little by little and make a soft dough.
Making sweet ragi adai
  • Divide the dough into ping-pong size balls. Pat them down on a banana leaf into a flat disc.
Sweet finger millet pancake
  • Cook this flat disc on a hot tava, with ghee on both sides until one.

Sweet Ragi adai | How to make Sweet Ragi Rotti

Sweet Ragi Adai, a sweet pancake/rotti made with ragi flour, jaggery, fresh coconut and nuts. A delicious adai that can be served for breakfast or as a evening snack.
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Course: Breakfast, Main Course, Snack
Cuisine: Asian, Indian, South-Indian
Keyword: Desi pancake, Healthy pancake, How to make ragi adai, Instant pancake recipe, instant ragi pancake, Millet breakfast, Millet pancake, Quick breakfast recipe, ragi adai recipe, Sweet pancake
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes minutes
Servings: 4
Calories:

Equipment

  • Bowl for mixing the dough
  • Tava to cook the adai/pancake
  • measuring cups/spoons

Ingredients

  • 2 cups ragi flour/finger millet flour
  • 2 cups powdered jaggery
  • 1.5 cups water
  • 4-5 pods cardamom, crushed
  • 1 cup freshly grated coconut
  • 10 nos almonds, powdered
  • 10 nos cashew-nuts, powdered

Instructions

  • Boil 1.5 cups of water, add the powdered Jaggery to it. Let the jaggery melt. Strain for impurities and keep aside, let it cool until use. 
  • Take the ragi Flour in a large bowl. add the powdered cardamom, powdered nuts, grated coconut, Mix well
  • Add the jaggery water, little by little and form a dough. The entire jaggery water might not be used for the dough, there might be a ½ cup of jaggery water left.
  • Divide the dough into ping pong size balls. Using a banana leaf, pat the ball into a flat disc. Heat a tava, invert the banana leaf with the disc-side down on the hot skillet and peel-off the banana leaf slowly.
  • Cook the adai on both sides, using little ghee. Serve Hot. 
  • Since it is a swee adai, this doesn't need any condiment, if you still want some, serve with some sliced banana and honey on the sides.

Disclaimer

I m not a Doctor or a Nutritionist The Nutrition information provided above comes from the plugin and is only an estimate.

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Enjoy this sweet ragi adai, hot straight from the pan. It tastes best when served warm. The adai doesn't need any condiment, if needed serve it with some banana slices and honey.

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An old post from 2013,updated with new content and images for better engagement.

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  1. Unknown

    August 01, 2013 at 7:54 am

    wow that looks great and healthy...

    On going event Flavors of cuisines - "Turkish"

    Reply
  2. Unknown

    August 01, 2013 at 8:15 am

    I'm a health-freak. I've bought some Ragi flour recently, but was at a loss about making any dish. I'll give it a try. How long does it take to be cooked ? It'll be very helpful if you provide some more recipe using ragi. Thanks a lot

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    • Priya_Srinivasan

      August 01, 2013 at 1:31 pm

      Great to hear Mili, sure will be posting some more recipes using ragi flour. The Adai takes 2-3 minutes to cook well on both sides,just like our Roti.

      Reply
  3. Chitz

    August 01, 2013 at 11:08 am

    Wow, that looks so yummy.. Loved those homely step wise pics.. Healthy adai !

    Reply
  4. Priya Anandakumar

    August 01, 2013 at 12:15 pm

    Delicious Priya...

    Reply
  5. kitchen queen

    August 01, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    yummy and awesome tempting ragi sweet adai.

    Reply
  6. divya

    August 01, 2013 at 10:38 pm

    wow ,looks incredible.

    Reply
  7. Shobha

    August 02, 2013 at 9:54 am

    Will try out when I am in India.. we don't get ragi flour in Brazil.

    Reply
  8. Priya Suresh

    August 02, 2013 at 11:42 am

    Needless to say how i love this sweet ragi adai,u r pulling me to make some soon.

    Reply
  9. Gnana

    August 28, 2013 at 8:32 am

    Mouth watering healthy adai! Thanks for the step by step instructions!!

    Reply
  10. Unknown

    September 30, 2013 at 4:22 am

    delicious and very tempting!!! Thanks for linking it to my event!! Looking for more yummy recipes!!

    Sowmya

    Reply

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