Khaman Dhokla

Traditional Gujrati Khaman Dhokla

Preparation Time - 2 - 2.5 hour

Cooking Time 25 - 30 Minutes

Serves - 4

Ingredients for Dhokla - 

• 2 Cup Besan (Gram Flour)
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
• 2 tbsp Oil
• 1/2 Cup Yogurt (Beaten)
• 3 - 4 Green chilli Slit 
• 1 tsp Soda bicarbonate
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1/2 Cup of Coconut Scraped
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1/2 tsp Ginger & Green Chilli Paste
• 2 tbsp Coriander leaves (Chopped)

How to Prepare Dhokla -

• Take a bowl, Add Besan and Yogurt. Then add 1 cup of Luke warm water and stir It with a whisk. Make sure lumps are not formed. Add salt to It & stir continuously. 

• Leave the mixture aside for 2 - 3 hours for fragmentation. After fragmentation of mixture add green chilli & ginger paste and turmeric powder and mix It.
• Now you can put the steamer on flame or you can use cooker as well. ( For cooker put a mold Into cooker and then put the thali on It for steaming). Grease the thali or baking Tin with little bit of oil.
• Now take a small bowl add soda bicarbonate, lemon juice, 1 tsp of Oil & mix It . Now add it to the batter & mix It using whisk. After mixing pour the batter Into the thali and place It on steamer or Into cooker.

• Cover the steamer with a lid for 10 mins . when It gets cooled, take It out of steamer.

Directions for Tampering -

• Now heat remaining oil In a pan. half cut green chilli, mustard seeds and cook them until they crackle. remove the pan from heat.

• Now take 1/3 cup of water and add sugar and mix this syrup In the pan. Pour the whole tampering material of pan onto the dhoklas and cut dhokla Into square pieces. and put It on serving plate.

• At last garnish them with coconut scraped & chopped coriander leaves.