LITTI CHOKHA

 

Prep Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Serve : 4

 INGREDIENTS

For litti
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Carom seeds - a pinch
Onion seeds - a pinch
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - to taste
Clarified butter - 1 cup
For stuffing
Roasted gram flour/sattu - 100 gms
Finely chopped onion - 2 tbsp
Finely chopped green chilly - 1/4 tsp
Finely chopped garlic cloves - 1/2 tsp
Mustard oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste
Lemon juice - 1 tsp
Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
Water - 4 tbsp
For chokha

Bharta baingan - 1 large
Tomato - 1
Chopped onion - 1
Chopped green chily - 2
Chopped garlic cloves - 3 - 4
Salt - to taste
Chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

METHOD
For litti
Take a large bowl add wheat flour,baking powder,carom seeds,onion seeds,salt and 2 tbsp clarified butter and mix well.
Make a stiff dough with the help of water.
The texture should be crumbly keep aside for 30 mins.
Take a large bowl add above listed stuffing ingredients and mix well.
Now stuffing is ready.
Divide the dough into equal size balls.
Stuff the filling in the dough.
Wrap up the dough pieces and close from all sides.
Preheat oven for 10 mins. in 250,c
Grease oven wire with oil.
Place the litti in preheated oven for 20 mins.
Flip it over till brown.
Deep in the clarified butter and serve hot. with baingan bharta

For baingan bharta

Wash and clean the baingan
Stalk trimmed and partially slit into quarters and prick the baingan
Now keep in the microwave safe bowl Microwave baingan for six mins and tomato for 3 mins
Cool down for some time,remove the skin of the baingan and tomato and mash it
Add green chilly,garlic cloves,coriander leaves,salt and finely chopped onion in the mashed baingan tomato and mix well.
Garnish with coriander leaves