Daal-baati-churma is Rajasthan’s famous food, usually served to special guests," she says. Pallavi shares some Rajasthani recipes with CookingGoddess.com. Let's begin with the daal.
1. Daal:
Ingredients for the Daal:
1:1 ratio – Kali urad (black gram) and chaney ki daal (Bengal gram or Chickpea) (half a cup each, to make one whole cup)
Salt to taste
5 gms – crushed ginger
2 nos – green chilies
1-2 tbs – ghee (Clarified butter)
1 tsp – jeera (Cumin seeds)
1 tsp – ajwain (Bishop’s Weed)
3-4 nos – laung (Cloves)
4-5 cloves – garlic
1 tsp – turmeric powder
1 tsp – red chili powder
1 – whole lemon juice
Method:
* Wash and clean both – kali urad and chaney ki daal.
* Soak both the daal together for an hour.
* Boil both the daal together with salt, green chilies and crushed ginger.
* Check for doneness and set aside.
Tempering:
* In a tempering bowl, add the ghee, jeera, ajwain, laung, garlic, turmeric and chili powder and sauté till brown.
* Then drop it into the boiled daal.
* Mix it well while giving it a final boil.
For Serving:
* Squeeze one whole lemon into the daal before serving.
2. Baati:
As the name suggests, baati in Hindi means a bowl, as this part of the dish resembles a bowl. For this you need thick ground wheat flour. “If you’re getting freshly ground wheat flour , then you can specifically ask the person to grind it to make laddu bati ka atta,” says Pallavi. “If thick or mota atta is unavailable, you can go with the regular atta, but mix three cups of atta, with 1 cup of suji (rawa) to make it thick, as that’s the consistency we need to prepare baati,” she concludes. Traditionally, baati is prepared on earthen ovens, with dried cow dung cakes burned as fuel.
Ingredients for the Baati:
3 cups – atta (wheat flour)
1 cup – suji
1 cup – malai (cream)/ odorless white oil/ shudh ghee
Lukewarm water
Salt
Method:
* You need to make soft dough out of the atta and suji mix with salt, cream and lukewarm water.
* Set aside for half an hour.
* Make round balls with the atta.
* You can bake them in a microwave or an electric oven.
For Serving:
* Once cooled down, you can break the baatis and pour ghee into them while serving
3. Churma:
For this, we need to make a tight dough with wheat flour (atta). “In this recipe, you need shakkar ka bura, which is readily available in most Rajasthani shops. Else, you can coarsely grind about 2 ½ cups of sugar to be used for churma", says Pallavi. One can also make churma out of jaggery (gur).
Ingredients for Churma:
3 cups – atta (wheat flour)
1 cup – suji (semolina)
1 cup – ghee
Warm water
2 ½ cup – ground sugar
1 ½ cup – ghee
½ tsp – cardamom powder
½ cup – ground cashew, almonds and pistachios
* Method:
Make a tight dough with 3:1 ratio of atta and suji, with ghee and warm water.
* Make round discs with the dough and dry roast them on a tava, till turn reddish in color.
* Once they cool down, you need to break them into small pieces and grind them in a mixer grinder.
* Now add the coarsely ground sugar, 1 ½ cups of ghee, cardamom powder, and ground dry fruits like cashew, almonds and pistachios on the churma.
You’re ready to dig into the mouthwatering, daal-baati-churma!
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3:41 PM on September 13, 2008