Adai aaga maariya paruppu usili!

This is a small story. This happened when I was 'deep' into the first year of my marriage! My mother-in-law was not there with us at that time. She is the one who cooks for when we comfortably leave to our repective offices. We call her 'Annapoorni' as she never used to crib and makes everything ready and hot-hot before we leave for the office.


I was trying my hand in the kitchen department during her absence. I wanted to make beans paruppu usili and soaked kadalai paruppu(Chana dal) and Thuvaram paruppu (thoor dal) for 20 mins. I ground both with ginger, red chillies, karuvepilai(curry leaves), after soaking and in a hurry mixed a little excess water by mistake. Instead of being a thick crumble it was like a paste! One moment I thought of it to be a sheer waste of material and felt very bad. Then an idea struck like a lightning! I had some arisi maavu (rice flour) at home. I mixed some rice floor along with water and salt to the paruppu (dhal) paste to make it like a batter of adai and left it till we returned back from the office( I made beans kari instead for us!). I made adai in that batter and everyone liked it!