Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, litti chokha. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Litti chokha recipe with step by step photos - a rustic and traditional dish of stuffed whole wheat dough balls, where the stuffing is a spiced mix of roasted gram flour or sattu. this recipe comes from bihar and jharkand region in India. Litti is the stuffed whole wheat dough ball and Chokha is a mashed relish that is served with litti. Litti, along with chokha, is a complete meal originated from the Indian state of Bihar.
Litti Chokha is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Litti Chokha is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have litti chokha using 33 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Litti Chokha:
- Make ready Litti-
- Prepare 2 cup whole wheat flour
- Get 1/4 tsp. salt
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp. yoghurt
- Take 1/2 tsp. ajwain (carom seeds)
- Make ready 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- Prepare 1 tsp. oil / ghee
- Get Stuffing-
- Prepare 3/4 cup fried chana dal flour
- Prepare to taste salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 onion, chopped
- Take 1 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
- Prepare 1-2 green chilies, chopped
- Get 1 tsp. red chili flakes
- Take 1 tbsp. lime juice
- Prepare 1 tbsp. pickle masala
- Get 2 tbsp. coriander leaves
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. ajwain (carom seeds)
- Prepare 1 tsp. kalonji
- Take 1 tbsp. mustard oil
- Take 1/2 tsp. pepper powder
- Prepare 1 tsp. coriander-cumin powder
- Prepare Chokha-
- Take 1 medium eggplant, roasted, skin discarded & mashed
- Make ready 1 potato, boiled & mashed
- Get to taste salt
- Get 1 onion, chopped
- Make ready 2 green chilies, chopped
- Make ready 1 tomato, chopped
- Get 1 tbsp. mustard oil
- Get 2 tbsp. coriander leaves, chopped
- Prepare oil to deep fry
Litti basically consists of wheat and sattu (powdered gram )formed into balls with spices, and then dipped in ghee (clarified butter). Traditionally litti were roasted over"chulha' but now due to non availability of firewood these are prepared either on gas … Litti Chokha is a traditional dish eaten mainly in Bihar and Jharkhad. It can be had for lunch, dinner or you can make it on your holidays and you will surely love it. Litti is similar to Bati in appearance but there is a little difference.
Instructions to make Litti Chokha:
- Roast the eggplant and boil the potato.
- To the mashed eggplant and potato, add all the above mentioned ingredients.
- Mix well and keep aside.
- Take 3/4 cup of roasted chana (Gram) dal.
- Grind to a fine powder.
- To it add rest of the ingredients for stuffing.
- Mix well and keep aside.
- Litti - In a bowl, mix together all the mentioned ingredients and…
- Knead into a stiff dough with required quantity of water. Cover and keep aside.
- Divide the dough into 8-9 equal portions.
- Roll out each portion with your fingers into a small poori. Make a hollow and put 1 tbsp. of the stuffing in it.
- Bring all the edges together and make a round ball. Flatten it slightly. Fill rest of the dough with the stuffing and keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan and gently slide the Litti into it…..
- ……and fry on a medium flame on all sides till golden in colour.
- Drain on a kitchen towel.
- Serve them hot on a bed of chokha
- With green chilies and sliced onion.
The Pitthi(stuffing) to be filled in it is made with Sattu and Litti is eaten with brinjal bharta or mashed potato. Litti Chokha is a traditional Bihari and Jharkhand dish that is quite similar to Rajasthani Baati but still very different. The litti is the bread made out of flour and is stuffed with sattu and chokha is the side dish made using eggplant, potato or tomatoes. Have you ever heard of Litti Chokha? It is a traditional dish from Bihari and Jharkhand region of India and Chef Pallavi shares her recipe of this tasty snack food.
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