Indian flat bread and gram flour spicy curry: Pithale Bhakari

 

Indian flat bread and gram flour spicy curry: Pithale Bhakari

Indian flat bread and gram flour spicy curry:
This is most popular dish of Maharashtra, made in almost every region. There are so many recipes of pithale Bhakari!

• Ingredients: 
• For bhakari:
• 1 cup water,
•  1 cup rice flour, 
• 1/2 teaspoon salt,
•  water for dough
• For gram flour curry:
•  1 cup gram flour, 
• 2 cups water, 1 teaspoon red chilly powder,
•  4/5 garlic cloves,
•  2 green chilies,
•  Indian borage(mexican mint ) leaves(optional) 20, 
• 3 onions, 
• Salt to taste, oil 2 tablespoons,
• Mustard seeds 1/4 teaspoon, 
• Hing 1/4 teaspoon,
• Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon,
• Carom seeds 1/2 teaspoon
• Procedure: 
• For gram flour curry:
• Peel and chop onions. 
• peel garlic cloves.
• Wash and cut green chillies. 
• Wash and cut Indian borage(mexican mint ) leaves.
• Heat oil in a pan. 
• Add mustard seeds. 
• Once they crackle add carom seeds.
•  Then add green chilies, stir well. 
• Add finely chopped onion, garlic cloves.
•  Stir until onion becomes golden brown. 
•  Add carom leaves, stir for two minutes. 
• Add hing powder and turmeric powder. 
• Stir well. 
• Add 2 cups of water. 
• Add red chilly powder and 1 teaspoon salt.
•  Boil the mixture.
•  Adjust  low flame.
•  Add gram flour slowly and keep stirring.
•  Add more water to adjust consistency. 
• Some small balls of gram flour remain in the curry.
•  Cook them in boiling curry for 5 minutes.
•  (Spicy gram flour curry)Pithale is ready!
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• For Indian flat bread( bhakari):
•  Add 1 cup water and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a pan.
•   Keep on medium flame.
•  When water starts boiling add rice flour, mix well and remove the flame. 
• Let it cool. 
• Knead the dough for bhakari, use some water if required.
•  Take the dough ball. 
• In a flat dish, take dry rice flour, sprinkle in the dish then make round flat shape with the help of palms.
•  Heat the tawa.
•  Put bhakari on the tawa(pan). 
• Apply water on upper surface, Roast both sides. 
• Then roast on direct flame. 
• Serve hot with Pithale!!!