Whole Wheat Lentils Pittha Recipe
Pittha is the name given to dumplings filled with spice mixed split gram lentils, the process of cooking involves steaming, hence it is oil-free. Pittha is a traditional recipe of the winter season in the eastern part of India like Bihar and Jharkhand, similar to momo’s, traditionally it is prepared using rice flour, but here I’ve used wheat flour. Let’s learn how to prepare this recipe.
Whole Wheat Pittha Recipe
- 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 cup Overnight Soaked Split Bengal Lentils
- 3 Cloves Garlic
- 1/2 inch Ginger
- 2 Pieces Green chillies
- 1 tsp Salt (As per your taste)
- 1 tbsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1 tbsp Chopped coriander leaves
- 1 tsp Black Salt
- 1 Pinch Asafoetida
- Take whole wheat flour and knead a dough similar chapati dough.
- Meanwhile strain the soaked gram lentils.
- Grind them, but its paste should be thick.
- Take ginger, garlic and green chilies in a grinding jar and grind them.
- Put the grind ingredients in the bowl.
- Add salt, turmeric powder and coriander powder into the batter.
- Add fresh chopped coriander leaves into the bowl.
- Add black salt and asafoetida into the bowl and mix them well.
- At the same time divide the dough into similar pieces and form round shapes as shown.
- Roll them using rolling pin and rolling board.
- It should look like small chapatis.
- Now put the filling in between the chapati shapes.
- Prepare the shapes of your choice and put them in a steamer.
- Check them using a skewer.
- Serve it with any chutney recipe.
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