Adai the Indian recipe made of rice, lentils has rice as its main ingredient. This is a protein rich recipe that can be prepared almost instantly. All it needs is to soak rice, lentils in proportion for about 2 hours, grinding the mixture for less than 30 minutes following which the batter can be refrigerated instantly (or) can be fermented for few hours before the adai dosa can be made
Now, coming to making use of idli rice for preparing the adai batter versus making use of normal paraboiled rice. Is there a difference? The answer is definitely yes. Not only for adai batter, even for normal idli batter, aapam batter, kuli paniyaram batter regular rice can be used. One main reason why this is being skipped is that it is expensive. On an average price of idli rice is 2.5 times cheaper than normal rice used for cooking on daily basis. Once in a while if you want enriched taste replace idli rice by regular paraboiled rice
Now, coming to making use of idli rice for preparing the adai batter versus making use of normal paraboiled rice. Is there a difference? The answer is definitely yes. Not only for adai batter, even for normal idli batter, aapam batter, kuli paniyaram batter regular rice can be used. One main reason why this is being skipped is that it is expensive. On an average price of idli rice is 2.5 times cheaper than normal rice used for cooking on daily basis. Once in a while if you want enriched taste replace idli rice by regular paraboiled rice
