Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, litti chokha. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Litti chokha recipe with step by step photos - a rustic and traditional dish of stuffed whole wheat dough balls, where the stuffing is a spiced mix of roasted gram flour or sattu. this recipe comes from bihar and jharkand region in India. Litti is the stuffed whole wheat dough ball and Chokha is a mashed relish that is served with litti. Litti, along with chokha, is a complete meal originated from the Indian state of Bihar.
Litti Chokha is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Litti Chokha is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook litti chokha using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Litti Chokha:
- Make ready 1 cup Wheat flour
- Prepare 3-4 tbsp ghee
- Make ready ½ tsp or to taste Salt -
- Make ready less than ¼ tsp Baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 cup Sattu
- Prepare 1 tsp Carom seeds
- Get 1/2 tbsp Masala of mango pickle
- Make ready 1 tsp Mustard oil
- Take 1/4 tsp Black salt
- Take less than ¼ tsp or to taste Salt
- Make ready 1 tsp Lemon juice
- Get ½ inch Grated Ginger (grated)
- Prepare 1 Green chilli (finely chopped)
- Take 2-3 tbsp Green coriander finely chopped
- Get 1 Green chilli – (finely chopped)
Litti basically consists of wheat and sattu (powdered gram )formed into balls with spices, and then dipped in ghee (clarified butter). Traditionally litti were roasted over"chulha' but now due to non availability of firewood these are prepared either on gas … Litti Chokha is a traditional dish eaten mainly in Bihar and Jharkhad. It can be had for lunch, dinner or you can make it on your holidays and you will surely love it. Litti is similar to Bati in appearance but there is a little difference.
Steps to make Litti Chokha:
- Take wheat flour in a big mixing bowl, add by salt, oil, baking soda and crushed carom seeds. Mix everything really well then add water in small portions and knead soft dough as required for making chapatti or parantha. Less than 1 cup of water is used to knead this much quantity of flour. Cover and keep the dough aside for 20 minutes to set.
- Meanwhile, prepare the stuffing. Take sattu in another bowl and add masala of mango pickle, salt, black salt, ginger, green chilli, green coriander, mustard oil and lemon juice in it.
- Mix all the ingredients thoroughly. Now add 6 to 7 tsp of water in the sattu and mix well to samp the stuffing. Sattu stuffing is ready. Take a dough lump and expand it from the sides with hand to make a well at the centre. Put 1.5 to 2 tsp of stuffing on the dough and press it a little. Now lift the edges of the dough and close the stuffing properly. Then roll it as a ladoo, place it on a plate and similarly prepare the rest of the litti.
- Now on gas place a stand and keep litti on it, Keep turning to avoid burning
- Once they are evenly done Coat the litti evenly with ghee and keep them on a plate. Litti are ready.
- Enjoy little with aloo chokha or baingan chokha.
The Pitthi(stuffing) to be filled in it is made with Sattu and Litti is eaten with brinjal bharta or mashed potato. Litti Chokha is a traditional Bihari and Jharkhand dish that is quite similar to Rajasthani Baati but still very different. The litti is the bread made out of flour and is stuffed with sattu and chokha is the side dish made using eggplant, potato or tomatoes. Have you ever heard of Litti Chokha? It is a traditional dish from Bihari and Jharkhand region of India and Chef Pallavi shares her recipe of this tasty snack food.
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