Khaman Dhokla

Gujarati cuisine is known to have a lot of flavourful and delightful snacks to offer, Dhokla is one of the specialities of Gujarati cuisine and is enjoyed as a breakfast or a snack . This is an easy-to-make snack recipe that can be prepared anytime and is best enjoyed with tempered or pan-fried green chillies. It’s a quick dish that can be prepared in just 30-minutes and requires ingredients that you can easily find in your kitchen cabinet. It’s the most common type of dhokla that you will see anywhere. Their main ingredient is ,as the Khaman Dhokla is prepared using gram flour or besan. Khaman Dhokla is sweet and sour in taste. they are part of a culture that loves feeding people.

khaman dhokla was the very first recipe that I learned from my mom during my school days. Since then, it has been by far one of my favorite recipes, and I have been entertaining my family and friends for years.

Here is an easy way to make Khaman Dhokla, which is soft sponge and super in taste. I serve with spicy sour cherries chutney.

Ingredients

2 cups Gram flour(besan) sieved
1cup Yogurt (beaten)
1/2 tsp Turmeric
1 tsp Ginger-chilli paste
1/2 tbsp Lemon juice
1/2 tsp Soda bicarbonate
Salt to taste
1tbsp Oil

Chutney

1tsp Ginger paste
2cups Cherries (halved)
1/4 cup Honey ( or any sugar substitute)
1 tbsp Lemon juice
3 Chilli ( green or red )
1/3 tsp Himalayan salt
3 tsp Cider vinegar
1tsp Oil
1tsp Mustard seeds

Instructions

Chutney

In a medium sauce pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add mustard seeds, when the seeds begin to crackle, add ginger and chillies , Stir in ginger and saute until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add cherries, sugar, cider vinegar, lemon juice, and salt. Bring to a boil; lower heat to a rapid simmer and cook until sauce thickens, about 30 minutes.
Transfer into a blender, make a quick blend. Then transfer into a bowl , set aside to cool. Chutney will continue to gel and thicken as it cools. Serve room temperature.

Khaman Dhokla

Take gram flour in a bowl. Add yogurt and approximately one cup of warm water and mix. Avoid lumps. Add salt and mix again

Leave it aside to ferment for one hour. When gram flour mixture has fermented, add turmeric powder and green chilli-ginger paste. Mix. Heat the steamer. Grease the moulds.

In a small bowl take lemon juice, soda bicarbonate, one teaspoon of oil and mix. Add it to the batter and whisk briskly. Pour batter into the greased moulds and place it in the steamer.

Cover with the lid and steam for ten minutes. When a little cool, take out from the moulds and keep in a serving plate.

Serve, garnished with chopped coriander leaves , scraped coconut and spicy sour cherry chutney.

NOTE

Some Tips and Tricks

• Start with a fresh batch of eno. The open pack or stale eno may result in flat dhoklas.

• A simple trick to a fluffy khaman – beat the batter well. The more you beat the batter; more air is incorporated in the batter, resulting in soft-spongy khaman. Just remember to beat the batter before adding eno.

• After adding Eno, don’t let the batter sit for a long while. Steam it right away.