Indian flat bread and gram flour spicy curry: Pithale Bhakari
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!
- 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!!!










