Recipe: Khaman Dhokla
Type: Appetizer
Preparation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 20 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Serves: 3-4 serving
Dry Ingredients:
- Chickpea flour (Besan) - 1 cup
- Sugar - 2 tbsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Eno - 1 and 1/2 Tsp
- Salt -1/2 Tsp
Wet Ingredients:
- Water - 1 cup
- lemon juice/citric acid - 1
- Refined oil - 1 tbsp
Tadka ingredients:
- oil - 1 tbsp
- mustard seeds - 2 tsp
- cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- sesame seeds - 1 tsp
- chopped green chilies - 1 (optional)
- Red chili powder to sprinkle (optional)
- curry leaves - 7-8
- sugar - 2 tbsp
- water- 2 tbsp
Note:
- Tadka ingredients can be changed as per the person's taste or availability.
- water and sugar part is totally optional in tadka. It will keep the dhokla from drying up.
Preparation:
- Grease 6" cake tin round or square what you have.
- Put the cake tin in the streamer on gas with the lid closed and switch on form steam.
- In a big mixing, blow sieve the floor. This is a very important step this would help not to form the lumber in the batter.
- Then mix all the remaining ingredients expect Eno.
- Give everything a good mix. You can use a whisk or an electric mixer just for few minutes. This step will help to form the air and will lighten the batter.
- After this add Eno in the prepared batter and then add 2 tsp of water and be real quick with this process give the batter a stir to mix the Eno really well and quick.
- After this pour the batter into the greased Cake tin which is already in the steamer.
- Let this be steam for 20 mins on a medium flame.
- After 20 mins, remove the Cake tin and slowly cool down the dhokla. Wait until it's completely cool.
- Then cut them into pieces.
Tadka:
- Heat some oil in a pan and add mustard seed as soon as they crackle up add cumin seeds, sesame seeds, curry leaves, green chill, sugar, and water.
- spread this tadka on to the dhokla so that it won't dry up easily.
- Serve this as a morning or afternoon snack with tea.
Thank you :)
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