Ingredients
For the dough
2 ¾ cup whole wheat flour,
1 tbsp ghee or oil,
Salt to taste,
Water as required
For the Filling
1 cup sattu,
1 onion,
1 inch piece of ginger,
5 cloves garlic,
3 green chillies or to taste,
½ tsp ajwain,
½ tsp nigella seeds or kalonji,
1 tbsp masala from stuffed red chilli pickle or you can also use masala
from any non-vinegar based mango pickle,
½ tsp black salt,
Salt to taste,
1 ½ to 2 tbsp raw mustard oil,
Ghee for serving
Method
Knead the dough using all the dough ingredients into a tough dough. Keep
aside.
Finely chop the onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies. Put all this
into a big mixing bowl along with all the other ingredients for the filling.
Mix it well.
I did not have sattu at home, so I just powdered bhuna channa and used it
instead.
Divide the dough and the filling into 10 portions each. Take one portion
of the dough and pat into a 2 inch diameter disc using your palms. Place a
portion of the filling in the center and bring the edges of the dough disc
together and shape it into a ball.
Preheat the oven to 250o and
then place the battis in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes
turn the battis over and bake for another 15 minutes or till brownish
black spots appear over the batti. Break the battis and drizzle some ghee over
it and serve with chokha. Traditionally the battis after being baked are dunked
into liquefied ghee before serving.
Chokha
Chokha goes
well with batti, makuni or sattu
ka paratha as it is known in Bangalore
Ingredients
1 big brinjal,
4-5 medium
sized potatoes,
3 medium sized
tomatoes,
2 small onions,
1 inch piece of
ginger,
5-6 garlic
cloves,
3 green
chillies or to taste,
3 red chillies,
Salt to taste
Method
Make slits in
the big brinjal and apply a layer of oil over it. Preheat the oven to 200o and place the brinjal and potatoes
inside. Bake for about 40 minutes or till the brinjal is completely cooked and
soft and the potatoes are also done.
Peel the
brinjal and mash it well. Peel the potatoes and coarsely mash them. Roast the
tomatoes over a hot tawa till the skin blackens; peel them and coarsely mash
them too.
Finely chop the
onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies.In frying pan add oil than add onions, cook for 2 min , add tomato, cook for 2 minutes. Now add ginger, chilies chili powder. Add brinjals and potato cook 1 minute and turn of flame.
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Mix all the
ingredients in a mixing bowl. Serve with batti or makuni or just plain khichdi.