Pan cake

Pan Cake can be eaten for break fast or dinner.

Things needed :
White flour (Maida ) : 1 cup
Rice Powder : 2 Table spoons
Milk : 1/2 cup.
Water : 1/2 to 1 cup
Salt : to taste.
Oil : 2 Table spoons

Things needed for filling:
Sugar : 2 Table spoon
Grated coconut : 2 Table spoon.
Cardamom : 2 Pods ( crush to make powder)

Method :
Mix white flour, rice flour , salt and milk together to make dough. Add water . ( The dough should be spreadable on the pan easily. Little more liquid than dosa dough ). Mix thoroughly and keep it aside.
Take another bowl and mix coconut , sugar and cardamom together.
Keep a pan on the fire and heat . Put 1/4 spoon of oil and pour 1 big spoon of dough mixture and spread it .( Can hold the pan 's handle and turn it round so that the dough will spread evenly around the pan). Sprinkle 1/2 tea spoon of oil on the dough. Cook on low fire. When it turns brown turn the dosa and cook the other side of it. Turn again and spread 1 tea spoon of the coconut mixture and roll the dosa . Press a bit so that it does not open . Repeat the same with other dosas. Pan cake is ready to eat.

Note : Can place more coconut mixture on the cake. Can mix nuts to the coconut mixture also.
If the dough turns more liquid then add some more rice powder to thicken the dough. ( Too much of rice powder will change the taste.)

Serves :2

Butura with chole

This is my old post. I thought of update with some of the pictures I clicked while I prepared baturas. Recently Deepa Kulkarni one of my face book friend had put up the batura recipe too. I modified my recipe of this batura. Previously I used to add cooking soda while preparing batura dough. But in this recipe I have not added any cooking soda or yeast or baking powder. Buturas turned fluffy and with crunchy layers. Thanks to Deepa Kulkarni and her post.

READY TO SERVE BUTURA -CHOLE

Batura  is fried poori and you can have it for break fast or at dinner. Chole or Channa Masala gravy is very good combination.
Barura is very famous Punjabi dish, and its well known International favourable dish of many. Not only Indians the whole parts of the world people do love this Butura with Chole.
Chole is nothing but Whole Channa. Its soaked for about 4 to 5 hours and then cooked with spices. Lets talk about chole in our next posts.
Coming back to batura it is made of maida (self rising flour). One of my face book friend has done this batura and I tried it in the same way. It came out really fluffy without using cooking soda. Though it was the same method I did this batura previously I have used cooking soda to give a softness to batura. But here no cooking soda or yeast added and the dough doubled nicely and the baturas were soft too. It did not absorb much oil either. Me a happy person with fluffy baturas and chole ( done with my own recipe), we all really enjoyed especially my son who longs for these baturas.
Lets see the recipe now.

Ingredients :

Maida ( White flour ) 2 Cups
Curd : 2 Tablespoons
Ghee : 1 Tablespoon
Sugar : 1 teaspoon
Oil : 1 cup or little more

Method :

1. Put maida, 2 tablespoons of curd, 1 teaspoon of sugar, required salt and a tablespoon of ghee in a big bowl.

2. Mix all the ingredients nicely and prepare dough. Do not add any water. Set it aside and close with a lid. (at least for 5 to 6 hours).

3. The dough up (fluffy) by the time.

4. Mix it again and kneed it well. Divide the dough into small ball size. (According to your wish).

5. Keep a frying pan on the fire. Add oil and heat.
6. Touch little oil with each poori dough and roll them in circle shape with the help of rolling pin.

7. Arrange the rolled pooris in a small plate.
8. Fry them nicely on both side. (one by one) in hot oil. Place them on the kitchen tissue. ('It absorbs extra oil).

9. Now serve hot Baturas with chole and some onion pieces or vegetable salad and a cup of curd.
10. Serve them while they are hot. It taste better when they are hot.

Note : 

I have used ghee along with maida to prepare the dough. You can use butter instead of ghee. Do not add any water. Adding more curd or little more maida if the dough turns too soft is advisable.  Preparing big batura is optional. You need to use bigger pan and more oil to prepare bigger baturas.
Time : 30 minutes + 5 to 6 hours to rest the dough
Serves : 4 to 5.
For chole : Soak channa for 4 to 5 hours and pressure cook for at least 20 minutes. Then keep a pan add oil and jeera. Add tomatoes and cooked channa. Add salt and spices of your choice. Add salt. Let it cook for 2 minutes. Add little milk and coriander leaves.
Will add detailed channa curry post later.