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Title: Dhokla (Appetizers - Vegetarian) Post by: maheshkumar on March 02, 2008, 10:50:24 PM Ingredients: * 1" Ginger * 1 tbsp Oil * 1 tbsp Salt * ¼ cup Water * 3 Green Chillies * ½ cup Green Peas * 3/4 cup Chana Daal * Juice of one Lemon * Pinch of Asafoetida * ½ tbsp Mustard seeds * 1 tbsp grated Coconut * 3/4 tbsp Baking powder * Chopped Coriander leaves Method: 1. Soak chana dal and peas too if using dry peas in plenty of water overnight. 2. Place peas, daal and water in a food processor or liquefier and blend until smooth. 3. Add chillies, ginger, salt, baking powder and lemon juice and blend until mixed throughly. 4. Pour the mixture into a greased thali or shallow cake pan, making sure mixture does not come more than three quarters of the way upin the pan. 5. Place the thali/cake pan in a steamer. 6. Cover and steam for 20 minutes. 7. Remove from steamer and set aside for 5 minutes. 8. Cut into squares and arrange on a plate. 9. Heat oil in a small saucepan and add mustard seeds. 10. When seeds start to splutter, add the asafoedita. Heat for another 2-3 seconds, pour over the cut dhoklas. 11. Garnish each dhokla with grated cocunut and coriander leaves. Tip: To allow free flow of sauce from a sauce bottle to a pourer, insert a drinking straw half way, into the bottle and hold it there lightly with one hand while pouring with the other. |