I going to share you a very popular Bihari cuisine dish …litti chokha..!!
A mouthwatering, lips making and finger licking awesome litti chokha..!!
If you like baati from Rajasthan then this snack will be certainly in your coming party menu.
Smokey taste with herbs and spices flavoured the litti include onion, garlic, coriander leaves ,lemon juice,carom seeds,salt and sattu (roasted chickpea flour) and lots of ghee – make this recipe very unique and very different from others -Very tasty and yummy.
Ingredients
- 21/2 cup ( 250 gram)Whole wheat flour(atta)
2 tbsp of ghee - For stuffing –
- 150 roasted gram flour( sattu)
- 11/2 tbsp of grated ginger
- 11/2 tbsp of Crushed or very finely chopped garlic
- 4 tbsp of Onion( very finely chopped)
- 2 tbsp of green chillies ( very finely chopped)
- 1 tsp Ajwain( carom seeds)
- I/2 cup green coriander leaves( dhania leaves) very finely chopped)
- 2 tbsp of melted desi ghee ( clarified butter)
- 3 tbsp of lemon juice(or as per your taste)
- Salt to taste
Directions
- Mix ghee in a flour rub with your hands and knead into a soft smooth dough using enough water.(prefer lukewarm water)
- Cover the dough with moist cloth or cling film keep aside for 10 minutes.
- After10 minutes knead again for 2-3 minutes. Dough is ready to use.
For stuffing –
- Take sattu in a bowl. Add grated ginger, crushed garlic green chilies, onions,ajwain in lemon juice, salt and ghee in it.( some people use aachaar masala to spice up the taste bud but here I am using lemon juice and herbs to maintain its original taste.)
- Mix all the ingredients properly sprinkle a handful of water about 1or2 tbsp. of or very little water) in sattu mixture.
- Mix well .check the salt. Stuffing is ready to use. Make 12 equal balls from the sattu mixture.
Litti making-
- Divide 12 equal portion of the dough. Make peda from each ball dough.
- Take one peda in your hand and make a katori of dough with the help of your finger and palm.
- Fill the one sattu ball (portion) in it.
- Bring together all the sides in the center and seal all the edges tightly.
- Make round smooth ball with the help of your hand ( palm).
(You can make tikki like shape by pressing the stuffed ball. For this- gentle press it by your palm and smoothen them)
Stuffed litti is ready to go on fire. - Remove the gas stand and place the two bricks on the each side of flame horizontally (like this picture below)
Make sure that the brick is settle at its place.
Place safely roti jari or roti grill (chapatti grill/wire rack) on bricks.
(make sure the height between gas flame and roti grill is at least 5 inch distance so that the littis can cook easily and not burnt while roasting it.( as shown in picture)
- Switch on the gas. Make sure that the flame is very low( the heat shouldn’t be middle or high otherwise the litti become burnt at outer crust and not very well cooked inside)
- Gentlely place the 2-3 littis at a time on roti grill on very low flame of gas.
- Cook each of side littis turning each side occasionally till the outer layer/crust is lightly golden brown in colour with some light dark spot.
Make sure the littis are firm in touch and texture. - Remove and immerse/ dip in desi ghee.
- Serve hot with potatoes chokha and baigain( Brinjal / eggplant) chokha and lemonade onion rings with coriander mint chutney.
( Note)-
Serving suggestion – if you want authentic real taste of littis … then follow me.
I have some serving suggestion..
How to serve – - Dip hot littis in melted ghee for about 3-4 minutes. Take it out.
- Take a little amount of desi ghee in a bowl about 2-3 tsp. .Cut the litti in half and dip it in a ghee and then eat with chokha/ bharta and lemonade onions and mint coriander chutney.( you can use any green sour chutney )
For lemonade onion rings –
2-3 onions ( cut in to a rounded
1tsp of lemon juice
A pinch of salt
Mix well.
Ready to serve.
