Chokhan ja Dhokra

Name: Chokhan ja Dhokra
Cook time: 15 min
Cuisine: Thathai Bhatia (Sindhi)
Ingredients: 1 cup chokha (steamed rice); 1 cup semolina; ½ cup gram flour; 1 tsp turmeric powder; 1 pinch asafoetida; 2 tbsp curd; 2 tbsp oil (for greasing the thali); ½-inch piece ginger; 2 green chillies; 2 tbsp lemon juice; Salt, to taste; 1 tbsp coriander leaves; 1 tbsp mint leaves; 1 tsp fruit salt or baking soda; A little water; 1 tbsp oil; ½ tsp mustard seeds; 1 pinch asafoetida; 2 sprigs curry leaves

Steamed rice and gram-flour cakes

Servesabout 10

CookSteamed about 15 minutes

Soft, savoury steamed cakes (dhokra) made from a thick batter of steamed rice, semolina and gram flour with curd, lemon juice, ginger, chillies, mint and coriander, steamed on a thali, cut into squares and finished with a mustard-seed, hing and curry-leaf tempering. Uses up: choka (steamed rice). A favourite evening snack, served at room temperature.

Method

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Finely chop the coriander leaves, mint leaves, ginger and green chillies.
Combine the steamed rice, semolina, gram flour and all the other batter ingredients except the oil and the fruit salt. Add a little water and mix to a thick paste.
Grease a thali (plate) with oil and pour in the batter. Add the fruit salt and mix well.
Heat water in a pot over a medium flame. When it is hot, place an inverted bowl inside the pot and set the thali on top of it.
Cover and steam for about .
Take it off the heat, cut into squares and let them cool.
In a separate pan, heat the tempering oil over a medium flame. Add the mustard seeds, asafoetida and curry leaves. As soon as the mustard seeds start sputtering, pour the tempering over the dhokras.

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Tips and variations

You can use either fruit salt or baking soda to make the batter rise.

Serve with

A favourite evening snack, served at room temperature with green coriander chutney.

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Nutrition

Estimated

Per serving

200 kcal

Protein: 5 g
Carbohydrate: 33 g
Fat: 5 g

We estimate about 10 servings from the weight of the dish.

Whole recipe

2,030 kcal

Protein: 54 g
Carbohydrate: 331 g
Fat: 52 g

Everything in the ingredients list.

These are estimates, worked out from the amounts in the recipe and typical values for each ingredient. Portion sizes and the exact amount of oil, ghee or sugar can change them a lot. How we estimate

Where this recipe comes from

Recipe from Panja Khada by Bharat and Deepa Chachara, shared by Sunita Raipancholia.

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