Saturday, July 18, 2009

Handvo - A savoury snack`

Hey this is my first blog post, and I'm excited. My Mom, grandmother and aunts all being great cooks ,I have enjoyed delicious food growing up.
Nowadays I have started some serious cooking and now appreciate flavour of every ingredient.
Coming back to today's recipe , Handvo is a healthy snack made from different grains, looks similar to a pancake. This can be made in advance and stored for about a week.

Ingredients:
For the batter -
  1. 1 cup semolina flour(raava)
  2. 1/2 cup rice
  3. 1/4 cup yellow chana daal
  4. 1/4 cup yellow split mung daal
  5. 4 Tbsp urad dal
  6. 2 green chillies
  7. 2 tsp grated ginger
  8. 1/2 cup low fat yogurt(optional)
  9. salt (as per taste)
  10. Few cilantro leaves
For seasoning-
2 Tbsp oil
1 tsp mustard seed (Mohri/Rai)
2 red chillies
5-6 cury leaves
1 pinch of asofoetida (Hing)

Method:
  1. Combine dry ingredients from 1 to 5, and soak completely in water for 8-10 hours. If you have buttermilk at hand , can add some while soaking, to give it a nice sour taste.
  2. Drain most the water and grind in the mixer along with rest of the ingredients 5-10. The consistency of the batter should be thicker than the regular dosa batter.
  3. Heat oil for seasoning, add mustard seeds, once the seeds crackle, add red chillies, curry leaves and asofoetida.
  4. Pour the seasoning over the batter and combine well.
  5. Heat a nonstick pan, and pour the batter, similar to a pancake or a dosa and cover the pan.
  6. Turn over the handvo once one side turns golden brown.
  7. Slice like a pizza slice and serve with tomato ketchup or a mango murambaa.

Enjoy !!

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