FUN COOKING: Besan

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Zucchini has lots of vitamins A& C but very few calories. It helps in losing weight and very good for eyes. Here I am using this in making chilla. See the recipe below:

Ingredients
2 cups of besan
1 tender zucchini
salt to taste
1/2 tsp of turmeric powder
1 /2 tsp pf red chili powder
1 tbsp of coriander powder
1/2 tsp of garam masala
1 finely chopped green chili
1/4 cup of finely chopped onion
1 tbsp of grated ginger
1 ripe tomato
1/2 cup of finely chopped cilantro
oil
1+3/4 cups of water
Method
1. Sieve the besan and add salt, turmeric, red chili powder, garam masala, coriander powder and mix well.
2. Grate the zucchini all along with its peels.
3. Now add zucchini, onion, chilies, cilantro, ginger, and tomatoes to the besan mixture.
4. Make batter with putting water gradually. It should be lump free. Batter should not be too thick nor too watery.

5. Now add 1 tsp of oil to the batter and stir well.

6. Heat a non stick pan/tava. Grease the pan with oil.
7. Put 1 ladle full of batter to the heated tava and spread it in round shape with the back of ladle.
8. Put little oil with spoon around the chilla/puda.
9. As it seems dry, flip it over to the other side with the help of turner/spatula.
10. Apply oil both sides and cook till it crisp.
11. Delicious and healthy Zucchini Chilla/puda is ready to serve.

Tips
1. Putting little oil in batter, prevents it absorbing too much oil while cooking.
2. On non stick first chilla/puda is needed oil , rest can be made with little oil or without oil too.
3. Everything can be adjusted according to ones taste.
Enjoy Healthy cooking!!!
See these posts too:
Kuttu Flour Puda or Chilla
Chili Chilla
Spicy Grilled Baby Corn Kabab
Namkeen Puda or Chilla
Bread Tikki chaat
Corn stuffed Mirch Pakoras
Double Colored Rice Poori
Kale Patra or Patoud
Mathi or Mathiyan
Papaya Parantha
Kuttu &sweet Potato Roti
Ajvaini Lacha Parantha
Boiled Rice Parantha
Bread Loaf
Mooli Wali Makki roti
Plain Makki Ki Roti
sweet Bread (Tutti Frutti)
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Besan and sattu ke ladoo are made of coarse besan flour. Sometimes it is difficult to get the coarse besan. Therefore, here I have made it with besan, sooji and maida to give it little bit grainly texture. Home made besan ladoos are more tastier and delicious than market bought. Its making is little bit tricky. Here is how I made it:

Ingredients
4 cups (500grams) of besan
1 cup of maida (all purpose flour)
1 cup of semolina
1+3/4 (quarter to two) cups of pure ghee(melted)
3+1/2 cups of Boora
2 tbsp of water
1 cup of channa sattu or as required
Method
1. Sieve all the flours.
2. Take the ghee, besan, maida and semolina in a big frying pan.
3. Roast it on medium flame stirring constantly.
4. When it gets brown in color sprinkle two tbsp of water in it to make it little bit grainy. As we sprinkle water in it, white bubbling can be seen. Cook it till bubbles disappear.
5. Put off the flame and remove from the gas burner.

6. Even removing from flame it still needs constantly stirring.
7. Now let it cool completely. It should be of room tempertature.
8. After getting it on room temperature, add the boora for sweetness. Mix it properly with both hands.
9. After that add sattu as required and mix well. Make ladoos from this mixture. Size can be kept of your choice.
10. Delicious besan and sattu ladoos are ready to serve.
Tips
1. Do not add sugar. Boora is a good option for sweetness in this ladoo.
2. Adding maida and sooji is optional.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
See more recipes:
Oats Burfi
Oats Poha
Oats Pakore (Sandwichmaker)
Chatpati Oats Chaat
Shakkar Paare or Khurma
Petha Mithai
Burfi of Left over Chashni of Petha Mithai
Shakkar Paare or Khurma
Sugar Coated phulia or Murmure
Boondi Ladoo
Oats Burfi
Chocolate Squares
Sugar Coated Sawalee
Moong Dal Halwa
Khoya/Mawa
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Besan chakri/chakli is delicious and crunchy snack. Though it is not too much crunchyhard just like rice flour chakris but still crunchy. I have eaten rice flour chaklis in some get togethers, but always found very difficult to eat it. So I thought of making besan chaklis . I tried it and it came out very well. Here is the whole process how I prepared it:

Ingredients
3 cups of besan/gram flour/chickpea flour
1/2 cup (2 tbsp less) of rice flour
salt to taste
1 tsp of red chili powder
1/2 tsp of turmeric powder
1 tsp of mint leaves powder
1/4 tsp of black pepper
pinch of heeng/asafetida
1/4 tsp of baking soda
1/4 cup of sesame seeds
tbsp of dry coconut powder
3 tbsp of oil
1&3/4 cup(quarter to two) of water
oil for frying
Method
1. Dry roast besan for 3 to 4 minutes or until its color little darkens. Remove from heat.
2. Sieve the roasted besan.
3. Take the roasted besan, rice flour, salt, turmeric, red chili powder, pepper powder, mint powder, heeng, baking soda, sesame seeds, and coconut powder and mix thoroughly.
4. Now add 3 tbsp of oil to the mixture and rub between the palms till like coarse bread crumbs.

5. Add water and make a soft dough. Divide into 4 to 5 rolls. Though the dough in above photo seems hard but it is very soft . If it is too hard, it can not be pressed through the savai machine.
6. Grease the sevai machine and put one portion of dough and close the lid.
7. Line a tray with aluminum foil/ butter paper. Some use the newspaper but it is not advisable.
8. Now prepare all the chaklis with sevai machine .
9. Heat the oil and fry all the chaklis on medium heat. Put the fingers on the back of foil or butter paper and transfer on other hand fingers carefully and drop in the medium hot oil. As we put it in the oil, bubbles can be seen in the oil but when it is done all bubbles disappear.
10. Take out the chakris/chaklis from the oil.
11. Delicious chaklis are ready to serve. When it gets cool, store it in an airtight container.
Tips
1. Roasting of besan is must.
2. Here I have used mint leaves powder. Dry coriander leaves powder/dry sweet basil/fenugreek leaves powder/curry patta powder, any one can be added too.
3. To check the oil, put little piece of dough into it, if it comes above slowly, it means it is ready to fry chakris.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
See these posts too:
Bread Tikki chaat
Kale crunchy Chips
Betel Leaf Pakora
Mathi or Mathiyan
Spicy Samak Rice Idlis
Jobstears Sour Idlis (Glutten free)
Fried Jobstears
Ripe Banana Peels Pakore
Ajvain Leaves(ornamental) Pakore
Oats Pakore
Corn Stuffed MIrch Pakora
Leftover Rice Tikki
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Besani tandoori roti is made in different ways in tandoor. Today I am writing one of the method of besani roti, which is available almost in every Indian restaurants. Here it comes:

Ingredients
1 cup of besan
1/2 cup of wheat flour
salt to taste
1 finely chopped green chili
Handful of finely chopped cilantro
1 tbsp of grated ginger
1 finely chopped small onion
1/2 tsp of ajvain seeds
1 tsp of cumin seeds
2 tbsp of dried fenugreek leaves
1/4 tsp of garam masala
1/4 tsp of baking soda
1/2 tsp of turmeric powder (optional)
3 tbsp of oil for moyan
1/2 cup of water
Method
1. Take all the dry ingredient i.e besan, wheat flour. salt turmeric, ajvain, cumin seeds, baking soda and garam masala. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

2. Now add oil to the dried mixture and rub this aata with both hands.
3. Now make a slightly hard dough with 1/2 cup of water. It should be slightly hard than normal chapatis. As the besan tend to stick to the bowl, that is why I kept it little hard. While making dough, add water gradually.
4. Preheat the OTG/oven at 250 degree C for 8 minutes. Set on lower heat element.
5. Now make 3 pedas ( dough balls) out of it. Roll with rolling pin it on any wooden surface (chakla) with the help of oil.
6. Place the rolled rotis on oven tray for baking and place it on the lower rack of it very near to the heat element /rods.
7. Set the times for 8 minutes. After 4 minutes, turn the roti to the other side.
8. It takes hardly 3 minutes to be getting baked on the other side.
9. Besani tandoori roti which is soft and crisp, is ready to serve and take out from the oven. Apply butter or pure ghee.
10. Place another batch of roti, now it will take less time.
Enjoy Healthy Cooking!!!
See these recipes too:
Kuttu Flour Puda or Chilla
Chili Chilla
Spicy Grilled Baby Corn Kabab
Namkeen Puda or Chilla
Bread Tikki chaat
Corn stuffed Mirch Pakoras
Double Colored Rice Poori
Kale Patra or Patoud
Mathi or Mathiyan
Papaya Parantha
Kuttu &sweet Potato Roti
Ajvaini Lacha Parantha
Boiled Rice Parantha
Bread Loaf
Mooli Wali Makki roti
Plain Makki Ki Roti
sweet Bread (Tutti Frutti)
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