
Ingredients:
• For the cover:
• 4 cups – gram flour.
• 1 tsp – Ginger Garlic paste.
• 1/2 tsp – Turmeric powder.
• Salt to taste.
• 4 cups – water| For stuffing :
• 1/2 dry – coconut, grated.
• 1 – onion, chopped.
• 1 tbsp – sesame seeds.
• 1 tbsp – poppy seeds.
• 1 tsp – mustard seeds.
• 1 tsp – cumin seed.
• 1 tsp – dry Coriander seed powder.
• 1 tsp – all spices.
• 1/2 tsp – red pepper powder.
• 1 tsp – Lime juice.
• 1/2 tsp – sugar.
• 2 pinches – asafoetida.
• 2 tbsp – oil.
• Salt to taste.
• A plastic sheet greased lightly with oil| For garnish:
• 2 tbsp – fresh coconut.
• 2 tbsp – cilantro.
Method:
- Boil water in a heavy vessel.
- Add ginger-garlic paste, salt, turmeric. Let boil for 5 minutes.
- Then add gram flour and mix well. Avoid lumping.
- Let it be on a medium flame for 10 minutes.
- In a sauce pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds, asafoetida, cumin seeds, poppy seeds, sesame seeds. Let it all pop.
- Then add onion and fry till crisp golden brown.
- Add remaining ingredients and fry for next 4 to 5 minutes till everything mixes well.
- Roll the well-steamed besan dough into a thick bread (bit thicker than chapatti) on a plastic sheet.
- Put the stuffing on it and spread all over the bread.
- Fold the bread, rolling from one end to another leaving the sheet behind like a spring roll.
- Cut into 2 cm pieces.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro and fresh grated coconut.
Recipe courtesy of Sonali