Bihari cuisine - awesome litti chokha

                            Litti chokha

Hi,
Everyone,
A warm welcome to our bihari kitchen..
Ya, you are right.. I going to share you a very popular Bihari cuisine dish ...litti chokha..!!
A mouthwatering, lips making and finger licking awesome litti chokha..!!
If you like baati from Rajasthan then this snack will be certainly in your coming party menu.
Smokey taste with herbs and spices flavoured the litti include onion, garlic, coriander leaves ,lemon juice,carom seeds,salt and sattu (roasted chickpea flour) and lots of ghee - make this recipe very unique and very different from others -Very tasty and yummy.
Although sometimes very often confused with closely related rajathani baati, but it is completely different dish in term of taste, texture and preparation method.
Yes,
Traditionaly Coal or cow dung cake or wood used to roasted littis  browning ( light golden brown) the  outer wheat flour dough crust add a earthy and smokey flovour to this dish and then tossed  or topped with lots of ghee make this dish very unique  from others.
Litti along with chokha( baigain/ eggplant and potatoes)chutney and onion rings is complete meal in Bihari cuisine.. But many people serve as a snacks.. Or a starter in their party.
As, I said that it is traditionally roast on cow dung/ coal.
But this new era of time it is very tough/ impossible to get this at your place.

So, I am here with easy and home made method of this dish..
No microwave, no airfryer..
But on the top of your gas stove..
Very simple and easy to roast on gas stove.

You will get here also a smokey taste of traditional method of cow dung or coal rosted that we doesn't get in microwave or air fryer.

Try,
this very delicious littis in your own kitchen in my mom style..

Ya, this gas version littis are innovated by my mom.
As we are fond of littis, so she had an idea to make this littis on gas..
So innovative and easy too..
Thanks to my mom  for this brilliant idea.


I am sure ,you will be happy to make it..and enjoy it at your place time to time in your gathering.


Hey guys,
Are you ready to make gas version littis?
Come - Let's make very quickly...

Litti-

Preparation time - 15-20 minutes
Cooking time - 1 hour
Makes 12 littis

Ingredients-
For dough -
21/2 cup ( 250 gram)Whole wheat flour(atta)
2 tbsp of ghee

For stuffing -
150 roasted gram flour( sattu)
11/2 tbsp of grated ginger
11/2 tbsp of  Crushed or very finely chopped garlic
4 tbsp of Onion( very finely chopped)
2 tbsp of green chillies ( very finely chopped)
1 tsp Ajwain( carom seeds)
I/2 cup green coriander leaves( dhania leaves) very finely chopped)
2 tbsp of melted desi ghee ( clarified butter)
3 tbsp of lemon juice(or as per your taste)
Salt to taste

For dough -

*Mix ghee in a flour rub with your hands and knead into a soft smooth dough using enough water.(prefer lukewarm water)

*Cover the dough with  moist cloth or cling film.keep aside for 10 minutes.

*After10 minutes knead again for 2-3 minutes.Dough is ready to use.

For stuffing -

*Take sattu in a bowl. Add grated ginger, crushed garlic green chillies, onions,ajwain in lemon juice,salt and ghee in it.( some people use aachaar masala to spice up the taste bud but here I am using lemon juice and hrebs to maintain its original taste.)

*Mix all the ingredients properly.sprinkle a handful of water about 1or2 tbsp of or very little water) in sattu mixture.

*Mix well .check the salt. Stuffing is ready to use. Make 12 equal balls from the sattu mixture.

Litti making-

*Divide 12 equal portion of the dough. Make peda from each ball dough.

*Take one peda in your hand and make a katori of dough with the help of your finger and palm.

* Fill the one sattu ball ( portion) in it.

*Bring together all the sides in the centre and seal  all the edges tightly.

*Make round smooth ball with the help of your hand( palm).

( you can make tikki like shape by pressing the stuffed ball. For this- gentle press it by your palm and smoothen them)
Stuffed litti is ready to go on fire.

*Remove the gas stand and place the two bricks on the each side of flame horizontally ( like this picture below)
Make sure that the brick is settle at its place.
Place safely roti jari or roti grill ( chapati grill/wire rack) on bricks.
(make sure the height between gas flame and roti grill is at least 5 inch distance so that the littis can cook easily and not burnt while roasting it.( as shown in picture)

*Switch on the gas. Make sure that the flame is very low( the heat shouldn't be middle or high otherwise the litti become burnt at outer crust and not very well cooked inside)
*Gentlely place the 2-3 littis at a time on roti grill on very low flame of gas.
*Cook each of side littis turning each side occasionally till the outer layer/crust  is lightly golden brown in colour with some light dark spot.
Make sure the littis are firm in touch and texture.
*Remove and immerse/ dip in desi ghee.
*Serve hot with potatoes chokha and baigain( Brinjal / eggplant) chokha and lemoned onion rings with coriander mint chutney.

( Note)-
Serving  suggestion - if you want authentic real tasteof littis ... then follow me.
I have some serving suggestion..
How to serve -
* Dip hot littis in melted ghee for about 3-4 minutes. Take it out.

* Take a little amount of desi ghee in a bowl about 2-3 tsp .Cut the litti in half  and dip it in a ghee and then eat with chokha/ bharta and lemoned onions and mint coriander chutney.( you can use any green sour chutney )



For lemoned onion rings -

2-3 onions ( cut in to a rounded
1tsp of  lemon juice
A pinch of salt
Mix well.
Ready to serve.

How to make aloo chokha and baigain chokha and coriander mint chutney.

Here, I want to share my mom style of making aloo chokha..

Aloo chokha -

Preparation time 10 minutes
Cooking time -12- 15 minutes
Makes 1 bowl

Ingredients -
4-5 aloo( big)  boiled and mashed
2 medium size of onion ( finely chopped)
2 tomatoes finely chopped
2 whole red chilli ( broken) or green chillies( cut into a small pieces)
3 tsp of desi ghee
Salt to taste
1 tsp of green coriander leaves

Method -
*Take a bowl add mashed potatoes and salt mix well and keep aside it.
*Heat ghee in a non stick pan.
Add broken  whole red chilli saute for 20 seconds ,add chopped onions. Saute on medium heat for 2 -3 minutes or till it looks golden brown in colour.
*Add tomatoes and saute for 2-3 another minutes.
*Switch off the gas.
*Take out this mixture in a plate ,add in aloo mixture.mix well.check the salt.
Finely add finely chopped green coriander leaves.
Chokha is ready to serve.

Baigain chokha/ Bharat

Brinjal chokha ( bargain bharta)
My mom style method of making baigain bharta.

Baigain bharta -

Preparation time - 5 minutes
Cooking time 10 minutes

Ingredients -
400 gram Brinjal
2 tbsp finely chopped
2 tbsp of green coriander leaves( finely chopped)
Salt to taste
Mustard oil 1-2 tbsp
3-4 garlic cloves
1 green chill

Method -
*Wash brinjal and make a 2 small  cut with the help of knife. Insert garlic cloves inside the one cut section of Brinjal.
Insert a whole green chili  inside another cut section of brinjal.
*Apply 1-2 drop of mustard oil on the surface all over of brinjal.
*Place the roti grill/ jari on gas top.Dry roast on gas each side evenly.
*Once done, allow them to cool.
*peel the skin .keep aside on the plate.Mash it with your hand along with roasted garlic with green chili. Mashed well.
*Heat tadka pan add mustard oil on medium heat till  it smoke.
Switch of the gas.
*Add this to baigain mixture.
*Add salt( use very little though Brinjal chokha need not much salt) and chopped onions and green coriander.
*Mix well.
*Brinjal chokha is ready to serve.

Coriander mint chutney with kaccha aamia)

Preparation time - 10 minutes
Cooking time- 0 minutes
Serve 1 bowl

Ingredients -
1 cup fresh green coriander leaves ( hara dhania)
1/2 cup mint leaves ( harachopped)
1-2 number of chopped green chillies
1 inch of ginger ( chopped)
2-3 garlic chopped
1 tsp cumin seeds ( jeera)
1-2 green chilli
1/2 medium size raw mango ( peeled and chopped) ( kacchi aamia)
Or
11/2  tsp of dry mango powder ( amchur powder)
1 tsp of black salt
salt to taste

Method -
*Grind kaacha aam , mint leaves ,coriander leaves,ginger, garlic,green chilli ,black salt, common salt,cumin seeds with little water( 1 or 2 tbsp) to a smooth paste.
*serve immediately.

Ya,
Make these littis along with chokha and chutney and make your party very special.

That's all for today.
We shall come back very soon with some more delicious recipes.
We are signing off.

Asha
Archana

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