Saturday, May 4, 2013

Dhokla

Ingredients:
1 Cup - Rice
1/2 Cup - Chana Dal
1/4th Cup - Urad Dal
1 Cup - Sour Curd
6 - Green Chillies
1 Table Spoon - Grated Ginger
Salt as per your taste
1/8th Tea Spoon - Turmeric
1/4th Tea Spoon - Eno Salt

Garnishing:
Cilantro
Fresh Grated Coconut

Tadka:
1 Table Spoon - Oil
Mustard Seeds
1/4th tea Spoon - Hing
10 - Curry Leaves
4 - Green Chillies, Slit Vertically

Procedure:
1. Soak rice, chanadal and urad dal for 8 hours.
2. Grind them along with sour curd, green chillies, ginger, salt and turmeric. Add water during grinding to get dropping consistency. Let the batter ferment for 8 hours.
3. Add eno salt to the batter and mix gently.
4. Grease the dhokla plates and pour the batter into the dhokla plate upto 1 inch.
I have used Cake Pan to prepare dhokla's
5. Steam the dholka batter for 10 - 15 minutes, until it is cooked. You can either use a pressure cooker or cook the dhoklas in a pan, shown below. If using pan to cook dhokla's, make sure the cover the pan with a lid.

6. Let the dhokla cool down and cut them into 1-inch squares.

7. Prepare tadka in a pan and add the above dhokla pieces to it and saute them for couple of minutes.
8. Garnish with cilantro and fresh grated coconut.
9. Serve the dhokla with Green Chutney.

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