Ismaili Recipes - This blog contains our family recipes; mainly it is Ismaili (Khoja) cuisine, our family lived in Uganda for 3 generations so we have a marked East African(Swahili, Lugandi) Influence in our cooking AND in our language!! (Kutchi / Cutchi / Gujarati. In recent years with new additions to the family our cooking includes, English, Pakistani, Italian and Irish influences.
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Sunday, 20 June 2010
Reshmi Bhajia / Spicy chickpea flour pancakes
Ingredients
1 cup chickflour
1 tablespoon chopped spring onion
1 tablespoon chopped methi /fenugrek leaves
1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
2 cloves garlic; minced
1 inch ginger; grated
1 green chilli; chopped fine or minced with the garlic
1/4 tspn ajma or 1 tspn chopped thyme
salt to taste
1 cup warm water
oil spray
makes 10 (31/2 inch diameter); enough for 2 people. If you want to make 2 plates for khana triple the recipe.
1. Mix the onions, coriander, fenugrek garlic, ginger chilli and flour.
2. Add salt and ajma, mix
3. Add water slowly to get a runny mixture, leave for 1/2 hour.
4. Heat a frying pan, spray with oil and put a small ladle of batter
5. Turn over when bubbles appear on the surface. Cook for a minute or so and place on kitchen paper to drain, repeat until all the batter is used up.
Serve with coconut chutney. I served with carrot pickle.
I love your blog because you always give so much more than just the recipe. Thanks for the tip regarding quantities, I was just looking for ideas for this week's sufro!
ReplyDeleteSounds so yummy! Can I make these the day before and reheat them in the oven?
ReplyDeleteIn reshmi bhajia dont u put bicarbonate or baking powder just like in potatoes bhajia?
ReplyDeleteis chickflour besan?
ReplyDeleteI actually made these in a waffle baker, which worked quite well. Tasty!
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