Sunday 2 November 2008

Dudhi na Muthiya

I am starting a new series; cooking or other blogs.
Kajal, Bee from Jugalbandi and Coffee from the the Spice Cafe have inspired me to make these.

Ingredients
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup semolina
1/2 cup millet flour
1/2 cup chickpea flour
1tspn sodium bicarbonate
1 large dudhi / bottle gourd or 2-3 courgettes / zucchini; grated
1/2 cup chopped fenugrek
2-3 cloves garlic; minced
2 inch piece of ginger; grated
3-4 green chillies; mince
1/2 tspn tumeric
2 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup Chopped coriander for garnish

For vaghar or tempering
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
1 tablespoon melon seeds
1 tspn mustard seeds
1 tspn cumin seeds

Method
1. Mix the 4 flours and sodium bicarbonate
2. Add the garlic, ginger chilli pastes
3. Add the chopped fenugrek and grated dudhi
4. Add half the oil, salt and water
5. Mix to form a fairly firm dough
6 Wet your hands and form log shaped muthia (see picture above)
7. Place in a slightly oiled steamer and steam for 20 minutes.
8. Let them cool
9 Slice into 1/2 - 3/4 inch slices, and pan fry in the remaining oil, place in a large dish
10. To prepare the tempering; heat the oil in a frying pan, add all the seeds, as soon as they start popping, pour over the muthia slices.
11. Garnish with chopped coriander
Serve with a minty yogurt raita


9 comments:

TNL said...

These are so yummy with some garam chai....one of my favorite things to make for lunch!

your muthiyas looks perfect!

Saju said...

Thank you Trupti, you are always so encouraging.

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Ami kapadia said...

Muthiya looks yummy .....I wanted to know can i use normal Wheat flour( I use Sujata Brand) instead of Whole wheat flour?
and
Is the whole wheat flour same as Wheat Ladoo flour that is available at India store?

Saju said...

Ami, you know what? I used ordinary chapati flour, and it worked very well.

Anonymous said...

Hi, thanks for the wonderful recipe. The only alteration i made was the soda............added only a pinch and still the muthiyas were light and did not become hard as i had feared. Otherwise everything else was perfect.Thx

Saju said...

Thanks for the tip anon.

Nikhil said...

Hi, will this work without millet flour? I have brown chappati flour, sooji, and besan, but I don't have millet flour. Can I leave it out? (Also, what is millet flour in hindi?)

Thanks

Saju said...

millet flour is 'bajara no lot'. it will be fine without it.

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