Food Says Happy Independence
What Is a Better Way To Celebrate This Independence Day Than To Cook The Favourite Indian Snack With India On It!
Food is an essential element that is closely associated with life. Where there is an organism that breathes, there must be food for survival. Although our elder generation took care of the survival – we now see food as a delicacy; preferring taste over necessity. What pleases our tongue goes inside our stomach and what doesn’t go in the bin. Well, as hard as it is to put food on the table, it was harder back in the time when another nation ruled upon our country and our citizens were not getting adequate food. Now, when there have been over 76 years of us being independent – we bring a lip-smacking snack from one of the foodiest states of India, want to know what it is? Look below!
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Sooji
- ½ Cup Curd
- ¼ Cup Coriander & Green Chilli Paste
- ¼ Cup Carrot Paste
- ¼ Tbsp Fruit Salt
- Salt as per taste
- ½ Tbsp Mustard Seeds
- 4-5 Curry Leaves
- 1 Tbsp Ginger
- 1 Green Chilli
- How To Make:
Take a bowl and add 1 cup of sooji to it. After adding the sooji, add the ½ cup curd (preferred cold). Add some ginger and salt as per your taste. Mix all these ingredients together and you’ll see the colour of this mixture change.
After mixing it for about 3-4 minutes, the mixture will become hard and seem like hard clay. Now leave it aside for around 15 minutes.
When there have been over 76 years of us being independent – we bring a lip-smacking snack from one of the foodiest states of India, want to know what it is?
After 15 minutes, add some water to make the mixture a bit lighter. Mix it well till you see the hard substance turn into a liquid state – making a paste out of it. Add fruit salt to it once it becomes pasty.
Take two more bowls and add some of the paste to them – making the total number of bowls to be 3. Now it’s time to do the natural magic of turning these Dhoklas into a tricoloured one.
Mix the carrot paste and Dhokla paste in one bowl and choose the other bowl for mixing the coriander and chilli mixture with the paste. Now very carefully, divide the paste into three equal parts making it seem like an Indian flag.
Steam it for the next 15-20 minutes. For that authentic Indian flavour – take a frying pan simultaneously and grease it with oil. Add curry leaves, mustard seeds, and green chilli and fry this for some time. Top the final product with this oily mixture and cut into adequately sized cubes.
From the August 2022 issue of FHM India.
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