Khaman Dhokla recipe
Khaman or Khaman Dhokla recipe, a healthy snack made with besan, which is way too easy and delicious too. Full video, step by step recipe.
Servings: 4
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Besan gram flour
- ½ cup Curd
- ½ cup Water
- 2 Green chilli
- 1 inch Ginger
- 1 teaspoon Sugar - 1 tsp
- 1 teaspoon Lemon juice - 1 tsp
- 1.5 teaspoon Eno fruit salt Refer notes
- Salt
- 1 pinch Turmeric powder optional
- 2 tablespoon Coriander leaves
- 3 tablespoon Coconut Optional
To temper
- 2 teaspoon Oil - 2 teaspoon
- ½ teaspoon Mustard - ½ tsp
- ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
Optional
- 1 tablespoon Sugar
- ¼ cup water
Instructions
Prep
- Firstly, crush ginger and green chilli to a paste.
- Secondly, take a flat bottomed vessel, (I used the cooker container) grease it generously with oil.
Make batter
- After that, take besan in a mixing bowl.
- Then add the crushed ginger green chilli, water, curd, lemon juice, turmeric, sugar and salt to it.
- Mix well and keep aside.
- Add the eno salt to the besan mixture only at the time you are going to steam. Make sure to mix well.
Steam khaman
- Steam this mixture for 10-12 minutes.
- Insert a knife to check if its done. It should come out clean.
- Keep for 5 minutes to cool down and then invert to a plate. Cut into squares.
Tempering
- Heat oil in a tadka pan. Once hot, add mustard, let it splutter. Then, add asafoetida, chillies to it.
- Spread it over the steamed khaman.
Optional step
- Add ¼ cup water and 1 tablespoon sugar to the tadka, bring to a boil. Spread (pour) it over the dhokla.
Video
Notes
- You can add just 1 teaspoon Eno and see the batter is fluffy. If not, you can add additional ½ tsp.
- If you use excess water than mentioned then it will turn out gooey.
- Make sure to use ginger and asafoetida generously for nice aroma in khaman.
- You can even add asafoetida raw, in the batter. A pinch will be enough.
- Never add more turmeric, you may not tolerate that smell (experience ;)
- If you don’t have eno fruit salt you can replace it with ½ teaspoon cooking soda.
- I love the juicy and sweet touch when we add sugar water. So do try once if you like it.