Thursday, June 10, 2010

Khaman Dhokla

Ingredients

1.1 cup chana daal.
2.1/2 cup rice.
3.moong daal, urad daal and (chola or tuvar daal) 1 tbl spoon each.

mix all these daals and soak them for 5 hours in water. Take out extra water and grind it into thick paste.

4. Add 1 tea sppon of desi yogurt into this thick paste
5. Add 1 pinch of baking soda in his paste
6. Fremont it overnight. he paste should increase in its volume, that indicates its properly fermented. Oven (below the stove) is the best place to ferment this paste.

7. Once the paste is fermented, add 1 tea spoon green chilly paste. Salt, Hing turmeric.

8 Mix well. The paste should be as thick as Indian sweet dish (shrikhand).
9. Put 3 table spoon of paste in flat plate and steam it for 15 min.
10 Take out the steamed dhoklas, allow them to cool, cut into square pieces.
11 Garnish it with tadka of oil, sesame seeds, grated coconut, mustard seeds, pieces of green chilly and cilantro.
12.Serve with tamarind chutney or coriander chutney.