Recipe: Tasty Khatta Dhokla

Khatta Dhokla. White dhokla with step by step photos. A fermented and steamed sour cake made from rice, black gram (urad dal) & sour yogurt. A nutritious and tasty low fat and gluten-free snack from the Gujarati cuisine.

Gujarati Khatta Dhokla is a healthy dal cake, made with a batter of rice and dals like - urad dal and chana dal, flavoured with ginger and green chilli which is steamed and seasoned with mustard and sesame seeds. Being rich in proteins, Khatta Dhokla fits well into a lunch box meal or a light summer meal. Serve the Gujarati Khatta Dhokla with some Pudina Chutney for a. You can have Khatta Dhokla using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Khatta Dhokla

1. Prepare 2 cups of handvo flour.
2. Prepare 1 cup of sour curd.
3. You need 1 tbsp of green chillies ginger paste.
4. It's 1 tsp of oil.
5. It's to taste of Salt.
6. You need 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder.
7. You need 1/4 tsp of asafoetida/hing.
8. You need 1 tsp of soda bi carb or 1 tbspeno salt.
9. It's 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
10. It's of For tempering :.
11. You need 1 tbsp of oil.
12. It's 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
13. It's 1/2 tsp of cummin seeds.
14. It's 1 tbsp of white sesame seeds.
15. You need leaves of Few curry.
16. It's of Finely chopped fresh coriander leaves to garnish.

Khatta Dhokla is a traditional Gujarati snack. The 'khatta' in the khatta dhokla or white dhokla is the dominant flavour of this traditional khatta dhokla and this sourness is brought about by adding a little sour curds. Gujarati's also call khatta dhokla as idra. Served steam khatta dhokla with oil.

Khatta Dhokla step by step

1. In vessel add handva flour,sour curd and water to make to make semi thick batter. Keep covered for 6 hours for fermentation..
2. At the time of making..add turmeric powder, asafoetida, salt, oil,soda bi carb/ eno salt and mix well. Pour in grease thali. Sprinkle red chilli powder..
3. Place it on stand kept in water filled steamer vessel. Cover and steam for 20-25 minutes..
4. In small tadka pan add/ heat oil. Add mustard seeds cummin seeds and sesame seeds as splutter add curry leaves and off the flame..
5. Pour this tempering on steamed khatta dhokla. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves. Cut into squares pieces..
6. Serve/ Relish Delicious Khatta Dhokla with green coriander chutney & hot tea/ coffee..

Use small grain rice for dhokla batter; Rice and dal ratio must be equal. Use sour curd while grinding dhokla batter. Soaked fenugreek seed increases the speed of the fermentation process. Spreading some oil on cooked dhokla helps to avoid its dryness. See and discover other items: steamed rice, dry lentils..