GRILLED LITTI

Posted on January 25, 2020 Updated on January 25, 2020

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Litti Chokha

For Litti:

Ingredients:
Wheat flour(genhu ka atta) – 500gn
Baking soda – 1/3 tsp
Roasted gram flour(sattu/buta chatua) – 1 cup
Chopped onion – 1/2 cup
Chopped green chili – 1 tsp
Coriander powder -1/2 tsp
Nigella seeds(kalonji/Kala jeera) – 1/2 tsp
Carom seeds(ajwain/ juani) – 1/2 tsp
Roasted cumin and chili powder – 1/2 tsp
Mango pickle oil and spices – 2 tbsp
coriander leaves(dhaniya patta) – 2 tbsp
Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
Mustard oil – 1 tsp
Ghee – 1/3 cup
Salt to taste
Method:

1. In a flat plate take wheat flour, baking soda, 2 tbsp ghee, and salt to taste. Mix all the ingredients together.
2. Add water and knead it into a smooth dough. Cover the dough and keep it aside.
3. In a bowl, take roasted gram flour, onion, nigella seeds, carom seeds, coriander powder, cumin- chili powder, lemon juice, asafoetida, oil and spices of the Indian pickle, coriander leaf, oil, and salt. Mix all the ingredients nicely. The stuffing is ready. Cover it and keep it aside.
4. Now take the wheat dough, knead it a little and make twenty-two small balls out of it.
5. With the help of palms make small katori(bowl) and stuff it with 2 tbsp of stuffing and seal it.
6. Preheat the microwave on the grill and convection setting at 180-degree celsius for 10 minutes.
now place the stuffed litti on a baking tray and grill it for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes of grilling, litti is ready to be served. Dip it in ghee and serve it with chokha.

For Chokha:
Ingredients:
Potato – 2
Brinjal (bangan/baigana) – 1
Tomato – 1
Chopped onion – 1/4 cup
Green chili – 3
Garlic clove – 4
Mustard oil – 1 spoon
Coriander leaf chopped – 1 tbsp
Salt to taste

Method:
1. Roast the brinjal, potatoes, and tomato, on the burning charcoal. Alternatively, you may boil the potato and roast tomato and brinjal on top of the gas stove.
2. Peel all the roasted vegetables and, take it in a bowl. Add chopped onion, garlic, green chili, coriander leaf, oil, and salt. Smash the vegetables with the help of the palm or a smasher and mix it all together till all the ingredients are mixed together.
The chokha is ready to be served.

Healthy and tasty litti and chokha is popular summer food served in Bihar, Jharkhand, and the other bordering states of Bihar., Litti is wheat flour balls, stuffed with spicy roasted gram flour, served with chokha made out of roasted and mashed brinjal, potato and tomato with onion, green chili, garlic, coriander, mustard oil, and salt