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Sunday 24 October 2010

WHEAT FLOUR ADAI


INGREDIENTS:
  • Wheat flour         - 2 cups
  • water                  - 1 cup
  • carrot                 - 1 finely grated
  • beet root            -  1 finely grated
  • Onion              -1 chopped
  • green chillies    -3 -4
  • oil
PREPARATION:
  1. Grate the vegetables
  2. Chop the green chillies, Onion.
  3. Heat a Kadai add Mustard seeds, cumin seeds,Chopped green chillies,onion toss 3 mins
  4. Add Beet root, carrots, salt toss another 2 mins
  5. Switch off the stove.
  6. Now add wheat flour with some water add fried vegetables to it .
  7. Mix that finely,the batter should be


Take small amount  place it in a plate make a round shape using hand ,like

Heat a dosa pan hot ,just inverted this adai to the pan, if it is not coming use directly to the pan for shape
Make many adais and enjoy this one, Make this as breakfast.
Children loves this colorful adai very much.


Medicinal Value :
Beet root:
  • The red beet is good to stay the bloody flux, woman’s courses and the whites, and to help the yellow jaundice.
  • Beets contain an abundance of minerals: potassium, phosphorus, calcium,
    sulphur, iodine, iron, manganese, chlorine, and copper.
  • vitamins  B1, B2, niacin, B6, B12, C, P, and beta carotene; flavonoids.
  • Natural sugar, and a good quality and quantity of amino acids.It also increases the uptake of oxygen by as much as 400 percent.
  • It supports and stimulates the liver, gallbladder, kidney, and spleen and increases the flow of bile. 
  • Fresh beet juice mixed with a tablespoonful of honey and taken every morning before  breakfast helps the healing of gastric ulcer. 
  • For an irritable skin the body should be sponged down with a mixture of three parts of beet water  to one part of white vinegar.  
  • This mixture is useful also as a skin wash in case of measles and eruptive fevers
  • and as a hair wash in case of scurf or dandruff.

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