Dam Dama Dam Dhokla

Dhokla is a gujarathi dish and is easy to make and is very healthy... And can be a quick evening snack...



Ingredients:

Besan/Gram Flour - 2 Cups
Curd/Yoghurt - 1 cup
Turmeric - 1 tsp
Ginger Paste - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Grated Coconut - 2 table spoons
Corriander leaves - 1/2 cup chopped
Eno (lemon flavour) - 2 tsp(You can also use baking soda 1tsp, but eno is more healthier!)
Lemon Juice - 2 tsp
Green Chillies (chopped straightwise) - 5
Salt - As per taste

Preparation:

1. Mix Gram flour, curd, trumeric, ginger paste, salt and eno to make a smooth batter. There should not be any lumps. Keep aside for 30 minutes to 1 hour. The flour would raise.
2. In a pressure cooker, take the inside vessel and spread a little oil on it. This is to make sure the flour batter does not stick to the vessel.
3. Add the flour mix in the vessel, keep it in the pressure cooker for pressure cooking (no whistle). The cooking is similar to the making of idli. Keep it for 10 to 15 minutes and lot of steam should come out.
4. By the time the dhokla is getting prepared, add oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, let it spatter, add the green chillies and finally add the coconut but don't let it get fried up, just a light touch of oil to the grated coconut is perfect, and remove from heat.
5.Remove the dhokla when it is prepared, cut to square pieces and garnish with the chilli cocunut mix on top of it. Add lemon juice on top and add corriander leaves for further garnishing.

So that's how is the tasty and delicious Dhokla prepared...

Ooh ... Om Pudi

Festival comes and Mom makes Om pudi :-) This time I made it for Navrathri... Om pudi is a easy snack..easy in the sense, it goes into the mouth very easily!! ;-) And by the way this snack is good for digestion since its one of the main ingredient is omam(ajwain). Check out the recipe...



Ingredients:

Besan/Gram flour - 3 Cups
Rice Flour- 1 cup
Omam/Ajwain- 2 Table spoon
Oil - As much as needed
Chilli Powder - 1 Tsp
Salt - as much as needed

Things needed:

Press with small holes to make ompudi

Preparation:

1. Add gram flour, rice flour, chilli powder and salt in a mixing bowl.
2. Boil 2 cups of water with the omam/ajwain nicely and then filter that and keep the water.
3. In a pan, boil 2 table spoons oil. Add this hot oil to the flour mix and stir it with a big spoon.
4. Now add the omam water to the flour and mix it to make it a thick paste.
5. Heat oil for frying. Add the flour paste to the press.
6. Oil should not be very hot, the heat should be moderate or else om pudi would become red soon and it would not be very tasty.
7. Press the flour in a circle over the pan with the oil in moderate heat and then fry the ompudi.
8. After one side is done, turn it on the other side to fry it on both sides and then when done, remove from oil and repeat...

And wow crunchy crispy om pudi ready!!!