Rajasthani cuisine has a lot of flavor.This cuisine has a huge dependency on lentils,ghee,yogurt and spices.Dal Bati Churma,Mirchi bada,Pyaaz ki kachori,Gatte ki kadhi.The list is endless.
In the olden days,vegetables, water and fruits were scarce. Rajasthan is primarily Thar desert and has less vegetation.Thus, recipes involves using less veggies and water.Use of local grains and spices adds to the charm of the desert.You get various local recipes like ker sangri which is found nowhere else.
Dal Baati Choorma is a special dish for a Sunday brunch.We serve baati or roasted dough balls along with dal and chuurma.Traditionally it is cooked in a chulha over coal. Even now you can make dal bati without oven.
However,nowadays you can also make bati in microwave oven.
Dal baati ki dal is also a speciality in itself.Panchmel dal or Panchratna dal is a combination of 5 lentils.This Dal has a great flavor due to varied textures.Churma is a sweet coarse powder of few dough balls.
It is also similar to Dal Bafla in MP and Litti chokha or Bihar.
Scroll below to read the recipe dal bati churma
Dal Bati churma is the signature dish of Rajasthan.It tastes best with oodles of ghee.
Ingredients
- 4 cup wholewheat flour/aata
- 1 cup Semolina/Sooji
- 1/2 cup Clarified butter/ghee
- 1 tsp Carom seeds/ajwain
- 1/4 tsp Baking soda
- Salt, as per taste
- Use 2 bati made from above mixture.
- 2-3 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp ghee
- 1/4 cup lentil each(urad,tuvar,masur,mung,channa)
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tbsp oil
- Pinch of heeng or asafoetida
- 1 onion large chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger- garlic chopped
- 2-3 green chillies
- 2 large tomatoes chopped
- Salt as per taste
Instructions
- Knead the dough with warm water and a little stiff consistency.
- Keep it covered for 30 mins.
- Divide the dough in 18-20 portions of round balls.
- Cook baati on a grill until cracks appear and all sides looked cooked.
- In an oven, it would take 15-20 minutes at 180 degree C.
- Once the baati is cooked, break it into pieces.Add few spoonfuls of ghee.
- Serve it with mixed dal.
- Pressure cook your choice of dal/lentils with spices and salt.Keep it aside.
- In a pan,heat oil,add ginger-garlic and chillies.
- Add onions and salt.Cook till rawness disappears.
- Now add chopped tomatoes and cook until they soften.
- Add boiled dal to this mix.
- Garnish with coriander. Serve hot
- Use the above bati(2 bati).
- Break into small pieces.Add 2-3 tsp. of sugar and 2 tsp. of ghee.
- Process in a food processor.
- Serve on room temperature.
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