- Take a bowl, add toor dal, chana dal, rice, red chilies, curry leaves, water, wash all the ingredients, and drain the water. Add salt, asafoetida along with some water to it and soak it overnight (or) at least 2 hours. Later, put it into the blender and make a coarse paste. Heat griddle, pour the batter on it and spread the batter with your fingers, and make holes on the adai, pour the oil, and let it cook with closed lid for 2 minutes on a slow flame till it is crispy. Then turn and cook on the other side without the lid till blisters form. Serve this with jaggery, white butter, coconut chutney.