Dhokla/ Dhokra

dhokla

Besan flour	1 cup
Sooji/rava	1 ½ table spoon
Curd	1 cup
Sugar	2 ½ table spoon
Lime juice	1 table spoon
Turmeric powder	¼ tea spoon
Ginger garlic paste	1 table spoon
Salt	As required
Eno fruit salt	1 ½ table spoon
Oil	1 table spoon
Mustard seed	½ table spoon
Green chili paste	Grind 1 chilli as paste
Green chilli	1 (chopped)
Curry leaves	Few(chopped)

How to prepare dhokla:

• Blend the besan flour, sooji, curd, sugar, lime juice, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, green chilli paste and salt like batter.
• Keep it for 1 hour. Boil the water in the steamer; also grease a tray to steam this.
• Mix the eno fruit salt with the batter and at once transfer it into the greased tray.
• Steam cook for 15 minutes. Check with a knife or fork whether it gets cooked.
• Tilt the tray on a plate after it gets cooled.
• Temper the mustard seed, green chilli, curry leaves and add 1 table spoon of water. Pour this on Dhokra and shape it to diamond. Serve with green chutney.

Tips:

• If you steam cook in pressure cooker don’t use the weight.
• Soak the rice and urad dhal for 3 hours and grind it like dosa batter and keep it over night and prepare Rice Dhokra/ Khatta dhokla. (3:1 ratio rice and urad dhal). If you did so you can avoid turmeric.
• Instead of Eno fruit salt you can also use baking soda.
• You can also use rice flour alone for preparing.
• If you want to prepare sandwich dhokla cook the batter in two times separately and sandwich using green chutney and then slice it.

Green chutney may be Corainder-mint chutney or mint chutney


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