Presenting awesome dish from Bihar's kitchen. Litti is made with sattu (roasted chickpea flour) equally favorite among all. We used to bake these in coal, but now a days in modern kitchen this is not possible so there are two good alternates -- Appam tray and Oven. I prefer Appam tray as it is fast and you can make litti with no ghee/oil in it. So no health hazards here :)
INGREDIENTS:
For stuffing -
- chana sattu - 1 cup
- onion - 1 finally chopped
- green chili - 2 chopped
- onion seeds ( kalouji) - 1/2 tbsp
- mango pickle masala - 1/2 tbsp
- coriander - chopped
- salt - to taste
- lemon juice - 1/2 tbsp
- Ginger -- optional as per taste
- mustard oil - 1tbsp
- wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
- carom seed (ajwain) - 1 tsp
- oil or desi ghee (purified butter) - 1 tbsp
- salt - to taste
METHOD :
- sieve the wheat flour and add salt , ajwain and oil mix it well.
- knead a dough with help of water and make a smooth stiff dough. Dough should neither be too soft or too tight.
- cover with cling rep leave for 20 min.
- now to make stuffing. Take a mixing bowl add all the ingredient and mix it well in case the stuffing is bit dry you can add little water.
- make sure the stuffing is not too dry and not too soft.
- after 20 min take the dough out and make 7 to 8 equal size balls.
- now take each ball and flatten with your palm and make an impression.
- fill stuffing in the canter and close the ball by lifting the sides by hand.
- keep aside and stuff rest of the balls in the same way.
- Put appam tray on gas on medium flame.
- Put the litti balls in the appam tray.
- Keep rotating litti balls to make sure they bake from all sides. No oil/Ghee is required to bake litti balls.
- Once it is done from all sides take the litti balls out.....you can dip it in ghee or apply a thin coat of ghee based on your preference.
- Hot littis are ready to serve :)
Note : You can bake littis in oven too (160 C for 30 minutes). I prefer appam tray as it is fast.
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