Dhokla

Dhokla is a Gujarati dish that is eaten as breakfast, snack or even part of lunch/dinner. Its main ingredient is Besan or Bengal gram flour. Its a steamed dish and requires very little oil to cook. The tadka done at the end add much more oil and that's something that you can control if you wish. 

Here we have presented the recipe of Instant Dhokla that doesn't required soaking/fermenting of the Besan. We have used Eno powder to create the airy bubbles.

Ingredients Needed:

Besan/Bengal gram flour :11/2 cup

Curd- 1/2 cup

Warm water- 1/2 cup

Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Green Chili paste – 1 or 2

Ginger : I inch

Sugar - 1 tsp

Eno – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

For seasoning (quantities as per your wish)

Mustard Seeds

Curry leaves

Grated coconut

Coriander leaves

Procedure:

Mix the Besan with 1/2 cup curd and 1/2 cup warm water .Mix well so that no lump remains in the batter. The consistency should be smooth and thick like idli batter. Add baking soda and keep for 11/2-2 hours. And then add chopped green chillies, oil , ginger and salt to the batter.

Pour water in a pressure cooker or a heavy bottomed wide vessel, keeping a plate inside so that the dhokla vessel is placed on it so that  water doesn't get inside.

Once the water boils, add Eno salt and immediately transfer the batter to the inner vessel and keep in the pressure cooker. Cover the inner vessel with a cloth. Cover the cooker/vessel (Do not put the weight) and cook for 7-10  mins, insert a tooth pick and check whether the dhokla is done. If its cooked properly, the toothpick will come out clean.

Cooked and ready to cut.

Cut into cubes or diamond shapes.

In a small pan, add 1 tbs of oil, splutter mustard seeds, add red chillies and pour it over the dhokla and add grated coconut and Coriander leaves.

Do try this out and let us know how it turned out.

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