Green Peas Chayote Adai (Pancake)

Green Peas Chayote Adai (Pancake) is a mix of frozen green peas, chayote (chow-chow in Tamil), potato and gram flour adai. It suits as a snack or as a breakfast or even as a side dish for rice.

I prefer to try out more dishes in microwave as it consumes less oil. I used 100% micro power and 1 micro safe glass plate to prepare this dish.

Serves: 4

Cooking time: for each adai 3 minutes in microwave

Ingredients

• Frozen green peas – 1 cup
• Chayote (chow-chow) – 1 no
• Potato – 1 no
• Gram flour or kadalai mavu – ½ to ¾ cup (adjust according to the moisture content of the vegetable)
• Onion – 1 no
• Green chilli – 3 no
• Soy sauce – 1 table spoon
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 table spoon
• Red chilli powder – 1 tea spoon
• Turmeric powder – ¼ tea spoon
• Curry leaves and coriander leaves – few
• Oil – 1½ tea spoon
• Salt – as per taste

Method

Step 1

• Wash, peel and grate chayote and potato; chop onion, green chilli, curry and coriander leaves; wash and mash green peas (I put it in a mixer and run it  twice for few seconds to cook it safely in microwave).

Step 2

• Put the grated and chopped vegetables in a bowl, add ginger garlic paste, mashed green peas, soy sauce, salt, turmeric and chilli powder; add gram flour, mix well and make a dough by adding little water if needed; let the dough be little loose to spread it on a plate easily; keep the mix for 5 minutes to settle.

Step 3

• Take a micro safe glass plate, apply some oil; take a lemon size ball from the dough and spread it on the plate like adai as thin as possible; sprinkle few drops oil on the periphery and top.
• Keep it in a microwave oven in 100% power and cook it in microwave on high for 3 minutes; turn and cook the other side also in between; as most of the content is grated vegetable, 3 minutes are sufficient; I allotted 1½ minutes for each side of the adai; repeat this for remaining dough also; you may get 5 to 6 adais in this.

• Tasty, spicy, ‘Green Peas Chayote Adai’ can be served as a snack with tomato sauce.

Tips

• Other seasonal vegetables can be added in any combination.
• For faster micro cooking, grate the vegetables.

This post is part of the event “Microwave Easy Cooking – Sweets ‘n’ Savories” hosted by Paru of Brindavan and scheduled by Cooking 4 all Seasons for November  2009.