Karadaiyan Nombu Adai With Rice flour | Sweet adai, Salt adai

March 13, 2025 | By

Karadaiyan nombu adai recipe with rice flour and Karamani is the most important prasadam for Karadaiyan nombu festival in Tamil nadu. People make sweet (vella adai) and salt adai recipe (uppu adai) with store bought rice flour / Idiyappam flour or homemade processed rice flour. Karamani, rice flour and jaggery are the main ingredients for this adai recipe.

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karadaiyan nombu adai recipe

For making this nombu adai, we make processed rice flour at home. I have shared the recipe below. U can also use good quality store bought idiyappam flour as shown in the video. I have tried using both and they came out equally well in softness & texture. The only difference lies in the water quantity used for making adai. Even though Karamani /black eyed peas is the main ingredient for this adai, my MIL adds other grains like ragi, mochakottai, chana, green gram, black gram, unpolished rice (nel), wheat germs, toor dal to make it a mix of nine grains in very little quantity, roast and cook it. But many people use only karamani / thatta payaru for this adai. So its our choice finally! The color of sweet adai depends on the color of jaggery we use. Ok, lets see how to make karadaiyan nombu adai recipe with step by step pictures and video.

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karadaiyan nombu slokam in tamil

SIGNIFICANCE OF KARADAIYAN NOMBU

Karadaiyan Nonbu or Savitri Vratham is a traditional Tamil nadu festival of fasting wherein married women pray for the wellness and long life of their husbands. This nombu should be done in the time when tamil month ‘Masi’ ends and the next month ‘Panguni’ starts. The reason why this fasting is carried out is that “ Savithri fought with yema (the God of Death) to save her husband’s (Satyavan) life”, the same way the married women should fast on this auspicious day for long life of their husbands. Unmarried woman can also observe Karadayan Nombu and pray to Goddess Shakti to get good men as their husband. After the pooja, women tie an yellow rope by chanting the following slokam.

“Urugadha Vennaiyum oru adaiyum vaithu nonbu notren oru naalum en kanavar enai piriyamal iruka vendum”.

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how to make karadaiyan nombu adai with rice flour

HOW TO MAKE PROCESSED RICE FLOUR

Raw rice / Maavu arisi / Dosa rice – 1 cup (250ml)
Take 1 cup of raw rice. Wash & soak raw rice for 2 hours and drain all the water completely.
Spread the rice in a news paper or white cloth to absorb all the excess water. Grind in mixie to make a fine powder. Sieve & dry roast in low flame till you get light fumes from the flour.
After roasting, try to draw a small kolam with it. If you able to draw it without cutting, flour is roasted well ( Kolam maavu padham).
Sieve or grind once in a mixie if there are lumps after roasting. This is called processed rice flour.
We use this flour for making adai. Usually I make this step in the previous day and make adai the next day.

homemade processed rice flour

For 1 cup of raw rice we get approx 1.75 – 2 cups of rice flour. You can also use store bought idiyappam flour instead of homemade processed rice flour.** For store bought rice flour/idiyapam flour,  you don’t have to roast the flour.
Karadaiyan nombu adai recipe – Sweet adai and Salt adai with store bought Idiyappam flour

Karadaiyan nombu adai – Sweet adai and Salt adai / Uppu adai

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Karadaiyan nombu adai recipe with rice flour, karamani as major ingredients. Both sweet adai and salt adai recipes are discussed with video
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Karadaiyan nombu recipes
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

For Karadaiyan nombu sweet adai

  • 1 cup Homemade Rice flour or store bought idiyappam flour
  • 1 cup Grated jaggery
  • ¼ cup Cooked karamani / Lobia / Black eyed peas + 1 tbsp navadhaniyam (optional)
  • 1.5 cups Water Some Store bought rice flour may take just 1 cup too
  • few Cardamom seeds
  • 2 tbsp Coconut bits
  • 1 tsp Ghee to prevent drying
  • Oil to grease the palm

For Salt adai / Uppu adai

  • 1 cup Homemade Rice flour or store bought idiyappam flour
  • ¼ cup Cooked Karamani / Lobia / Black eyed peas + 1 tbsp navadhaniyam (optional)
  • 2 cups Water adjust as per the flour
  • 2 tbsp Coconut bits
  • Salt – As needed

To temper salt adai

  • 1 tbsp Coconut oil or Cooking oil
  • ½ tsp Mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp Urad dal
  • 2 pinch Hing / Asafetida
  • Curry leaves few
  • 2 to 3 Green chilli
  • 1 inch Ginger finely chopped

Instructions
 

  • Roast Karamani and other grains in 1 tbsp oil till nice aroma emanates. You can roast in a pressure cooker base. Roast in medium flame for 6-8 minutes. Pressure cook the grains adding 1.5 cups of water. Drain the water and keep the grains aside. Alternately, you can roast and soak the Karamani over night, pressure cook and add to rice flour.
    cooking karamani for karadaiyan nombu adai
  • HOW TO MAKE SWEET ADAI / VELLA ADAI :
    Take water & grated jaggery in a wide bowl. Heat it and melt the jaggery completely. Strain the jaggery syrup using a metal strainer toremove the impurities if any. Wash the bowl and again transfer the syrup to same bowl.
  • Allow the syrup to boil for 3 minutes till the jaggery smell leaves. Now add the cooked karamani, coconut bits, cardamom powder, ghee and boil for sometime. Keep the flame completely low & add the rice flour in one hand while mixing with a ladle in other hand. Make sure to mix well without lumps. The mixture will thicken and will become a dough.
    karadaiyan nombu sweet adai
  • After the dough is warm , grease your palm with oil and take a small ball lime sized ball of dough. Flatten it like masala vadai. Make a hole in the center if you like. We don’t put a hole generally. Arrange the adai in a greased idli plate. We are going to steam both sweet and salt adai together in the last step.

HOW TO MAKE SALT ADAI / UPPU ADAI 

  • Heat oil in a kadai and temper mustard, urad dal, cumin seeds, green chilli, ginger, curry leaves and hing. Add water, required salt, coconut pieces, cooked karamani. Mix well and allow to boil for sometime.
  • Then add the rice flour and mix well in low flame to make a dough. After the dough cools down , make small balls. Pat it like vada and arrange them in a greased idli plate.
  • Arrange the sweet adai and salt adai in a greased idli plate. Roll boil water in an idli pot and place the idli plate with adai. Steam itfor 10-15 minutes.
    karadaiyan nombu adai recipe
  • Switch off the flame, remove the idli plate and let it rest for 5 minutes. Remove it carefully to avoid breaking.
    steaming karadaiyan nombu adai
  • Enjoy this festival day offering sweet and salt nombu adai. Ladies, don’t forget to tie the yellow rope.

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Notes

*Use a mix of white or brown chana, ragi, green gram, urad dal, toor dal  (Navadhaniyam) along with black eyed peas (karamani). But it is completely optional. You can use only karamani which gives nice flavor to this adai. Quantity of karamani can also be adjusted as per your taste.
** For store bought rice flour/idiyapam flour, you don’t have to roast the flour.
For homemade processed rice flour, please check it above.
  • Instead of roasting karamani, you can soak it overnight or 4 hours and then pressure cook it.
  • You can also use good quality idiyappam flour instead of homemade processed rice flour.
  • For variations, you can grind green chilli, ginger to a paste and add to water in salt adai.
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Try this easy, yummy Karadaiyan nombu sweet adai and salt adai. Offer with unmelted butter to GOD. Enjoy the festival !

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  9. Sudha Sabarish

    Nice explanation about the pooja and loved the mantram you tell while tying the rope.Love the savory version a lot.

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  20. Chitra Amma's Kitchen

    I missed making these adais for nombu as I was away from home.Very happy to see the festive pooja plate with the sharadu and the delicious adais topped with butter.

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  24. Unknown

    Thanks for bringing back happy joyful memories.I love the sweet and savoury adais. Beautiful and yummy. Karadaiyan Pooja-fasting and prayers will be held on Monday the 13th March 2017(morning) in Toronto.Share adais with friends and family.Have fun.

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