About Recipe
Khaman (or khaman dhokla) is a food common in Gujarat state of India made from gram flour. Generally eaten as a snack, it is mostly served with roughly chopped onions, sev, fried chillies sprinkled with salt and chutney. In some shops it is also served traditionally in a large green leaf. Sometimes it is also garnished with scraped coconut. Khaman, also the part of the Gujarati Thaali (cuisine) is an almost identical dish of dhokla in look but, actually has lot many variations with its batter and taste in comparison with that snack.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
2 tsp semolina (suji)
2 tsp eno powder
1/2 tsp sugar
1 lemon (nimbu)
2 green chilly (hari mirch)
8-10 curry leaves (kadi patta)
1 tsp mustard seeds (raai)
1/4 tsp salt (namak)
1 cup water
1 tbsp oil
Cooking Procedure
n n Mix gram flour, semolina and 1 cup water.n n Grease a container.n n Heat water in a pressure cooker and place sieve (jaali) on it.n n Now add eno powder.n n Immediately pour this mixture in the greased container.n n Place it on jaali and cover the cooker.n n Remove the whistle of the cooker.n n Let it cook at high flame for 15 minutes.n n Then take out the dhoklas out of the container and cut into pieces once it is cooled.n n Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds. Then put curry leaves.n n Finely chop green chilies.n n Pour this on dhoklas.n n Put 2 cup water, sugar and lemon juice in a container and put all dhoklas in it.n n After 5 minutes take out extra water.n n Garnish with finely chopped dhania patti.n n Serve with some chutney.nn