Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Litti Chokha
by Frances Gordon
Litti Chokha
Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, litti chokha. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Litti Chokha is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Litti Chokha is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have litti chokha using 51 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Litti Chokha:
Get Litti -
Take Wheat flour
Get Carom seeds
Make ready Salt in flour
Make ready Sattu flour (can made at home by grinding Phutana dal)
Take ginger garlic green chilli paste
Get Mustard oil (raw)
Get Onion seeds
Prepare red chilli powder
Get Salt in sattu Filling
Make ready coriander leaves finely chopped
Make ready water for adding in sattu Filling
Prepare water for Kneading dough
Prepare oil as moyin
Prepare Ghee for deep frying littis
Prepare Chokha:
Make ready Big aubergine (Bharta Baingan)
Take Potatoes (medium size)
Get Garlic cloves
Take Grated Ginger
Prepare green chillies
Take Onions chopped
Make ready Tomatoes chopped
Take Mustard oil
Make ready Salt
Get chopped coriander leaves
Get Dal -
Get Toor dal
Prepare onion finely chopped
Prepare Tomato finely chopped
Take Garlic cloves finely chopped
Get Grated Ginger
Get Green chillies slit into halves
Get - curry leaves
Make ready Coriander leaves finely chopped
Take Turmeric powder
Take Cumin Seeds
Get Ghee for tadka
Prepare Dried red chili for tadka
Get Green Chutney-
Make ready Pudina leaves
Make ready Coriander leaves
Make ready Green chillies
Prepare garlic cloves
Make ready ginger
Take salt
Make ready Cumin Powder
Get water
Get Serving -
Prepare chopped onions
Make ready Green chillies
Instructions to make Litti Chokha:
Sattu Filling for litti-
Take 100 gms of sattu flour in a bowl, add ginger garlic green chillies paste, chopped coriander leaves, salt, onion seeds, Mustard oil and water. Mix well sattu filling for litti is ready (one can also use any Mustard oil based achari masala) if it's available easily. Keep this filling aside.
For Litti covering-
Take wheat flour in a bowl, add salt, carom seeds and oil moyin. Now start adding water and knead a dough same as required for Chapati Dough (not too loose not too tight). Rest this dough by applying oil for 15 mins. After 15 mins knead again. Litti covering is ready.
Litti frying -
Take a lemon size portion from dough now with help of finger press it and make a Katori.
Now, take 2 tsp of sattu filling and fill it in that katori. Seal the dough and give it a round shape with the help of your palm. Seal it properly so while frying our littis will not open in ghee.
Prepare all littis in similar fashion and keep it ready for frying.
Now heat ghee in a kadahi. Start adding littis in batches. Please note that throughout the frying process the gas flame will be low. Flip the littis once they are golden brown from once side. Similarly fry all littis and take out on tissue paper. Littis are ready.
For Chokha-
Pressure cook aubergine and potatoes by peeling them. Take one whistle. Discard the water and start mashing potatoes and aubergine together with the help of a Smasher.
Heat Mustard oil in a kadhai. Add chopped onions, chopped garlic cloves, grated ginger and chopped green chillies. Saute well till raw aroma disappears. Now add chopped tomatoes and saute till tomatoes are soft and mushy.
Add turmeric powder and salt. Now add smashed potatoes and aubergine. Mix well and adjust Salt. Cover and cook for 5 mins.
Switch off the flame add raw garlic cloves roughly chopped from above, add raw Mustard oil around 1 tbsp. Add chopped coriander leaves. Chokha is ready to be served.
For dal-
Pressure cook toor dal for 3-4 whistles by adding salt and turmeric powder.
Heat oil in a kadhai. Add cumin seeds let it splutter, now add curry leaves, dried red chillies, mix well, now add chopped garlic, grated ginger, chopped green chillies, add chopped onions and saute well. Once onions are pink add tomatoes. Cook till tomatoes are tender.
Add cooked toor dal and give it a good mix. Let it boil on low flame for 10 mins and add coriander leaves. Add ghee from above. Dal is ready.
Green Chutney -
In a mixer jar add - washed pudina leaves, washed coriander leaves, green chillies, garlic cloves, ginger, salt, cumin powder and water. Blend to make a smooth Puree. Green Chutney is ready
Serving Litti Chokha-
In a plate arrange - crushed littis + add some ghee from above, chokha, tempored dal, green chutney, chopped onions and green chillies.
Super duper tasty Litti Chokha is ready to serve. Do try this delicious Bihari Cuisine and share your thoughts/comments/remarks and suggestions.
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