Sweet ragi adai recipe, prepared with finger millet (ragi), chopped coconut, jaggery as main ingredients. Full video, step by step pictures recipe post.
This is the first time I am making sweet adai. I like ragi savory adai, yet make less often as no one at home eats it as a meal. I am lazy to make it for myself. Somehow was craving for sweet adai for past couple of days. I referred here for measurements. I thought I will make sweet adai, just like I make sweet adai with rice flour. Followed the same method as I prepare dough for rice sweet adai and pidi kozhukattai and it turned out really good.
I remember my mom's ragi adai to be stiff and crispy than this one, I guess she roasts the flour and prepares sweet ragi adai. It adds flavour but I liked this one too. The chopped coconut adds a nice texture to the adai.
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Ragi sweet adai recipe
Ingredients
- Ragi / kezhvaragu - 1 cup finger millet flour
- Jaggery - ½ cup powdered
- Water - 2 cups
- chopped coconut - 3 tbsp
- cardamom - 1 powdered
- Salt - a generous pinch
- Ghee/ oil - as needed
Instructions
- Take jaggery, water in a heavy bottomed pan.
- Once jaggery is dissolved, filter it using metal strainer.
- Wash the vessel, again start heating the jaggery syrup.
- Add coconut, cardamom, salt to it. Add ragi to it.
- Stir briskly and cook until a dough forms. It could take roughly 5 mins.
- Keep covered. Once cool down, divide to 5 equal sized balls.
- In a grease surface, flatten the balls to make thick adai.
- Cook both sides over medium heat until golden spots appear here and there and turns crisp.
Video
Notes
- Powder jaggery and measure, otherwise the quantity varies. Stir over medium heat.
- This water ratio gives soft adai. if you want in stiffer side, you can use 1 & ½ cups water instead of 2 cups.
- You can add 2 cardamoms if you like the flavour.
- Ragi takes bit of time to cook, so both while making dough and while cooking over tawa, it will take some time.
- I used banana leaf for flattening. it will be easy to flip over the tawa. You can also use butter paper/ baking sheets. If using ziplock/ plastic sheets, do not invert directly on hot tawa. It will stick as it will melt in heat.
How to make sweet ragi adai recipe steps:
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- Take jaggery, water in a heavy bottomed pan, stir over medium heat.
- Once jaggery is dissolved, filter it using metal strainer.
- Add coconut, cardamom, salt to it. Add ragi to it.
- Stir briskly and cook until a dough forms. It could take roughly 5 mins.
- Keep covered. Once cool down, divide to 5 equal sized balls.
- In a grease surface, flatten the balls to make thick adai.
- Cook both sides over medium heat until golden spots appear here and there and turns crisp.
- Take jaggery, water in a heavy bottomed pan, stir over medium heat.
Serve hot/ warm.
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