Bati Chokha

 Bati Chokha

Ingredients (for 3-4 servings)

For outer part of bati

2 cups wheat flour

½  tsp baking powder

½ tsp soda

2 tbsp refined oil

¾  tsp salt

4 tbsp of ghee

For Filling

1 cup roasted gram ka sattu

4-5 clovesGarlic grated

1 medium size onion finely chopped

1 peice Ginger grated

2 -3 Green chilies, finely chopped

½ cup coriander leaves finely chopped

1 tsp ajwain

1 tblsp lemon juice

2 stuffed red chilli pickle masala

Salt to taste

For chokha

2 medium sized boiled potatoes

1 big rounded brinjal

3 medium sized tomatoes

4-5 garlic cloves (peeled)

2-4 finely chopped green chillies

½  peice of ginger grated

2 medium sized onionsfinely chopped

1 tbsp finely chopped coriander (dhania)

1 tsp mustard oil

salt to taste

METHOD

 Take Wheat flour in big bowl and add salt, soda,baking powder and oil and prepare soft dough and cover with wet cloth, keep it aside.

Mix all the filling ingredients with sattu.

Add ¼ cup water to make the stuffing moist.

Now make 10-12 balls from the kneaded dough. sprinckle some dry atta and make a peda.

Now Stuff 1 spoon filling in the center of the peda and close it from all sides.

Fill all the bati from stuffing and keep aside.

Now Pre-heat the gas tandur  to  put all the baties on a baking grill and bake till one side is brown or black spots come on the bati surface. Then turn over the bati and bake for few more minutes until other side is brown as well.

Take out from the tandur and dip in hot ghee .

For Choka

Boil the tomatoes and remove the skin and keep aside.

Make some hole on the brinjal and put garlic clove inside the brinjal roast on the gas stove on medium flame from both the sides untill it becomes soft.

Take a bowl of cold water and put the roasted brinjal in it.

Peel of the burnt skin of the brinjal.

Mash boiled potatoes, brinjal along with garlic and tomatoes together.

Add finely chopped onion, coriander leaves, grated ginger salt, green chillies and mustard oil.

Mix all the ingredients with hands properly.

Serve with hot bati..!