Savory Chickpeas in tangy tomato Glaze
Soaking time: 8 hours or overnight Preparation time (after assembling ingredients): 10 minutes Cooking time: 2-3 hours or 30-40 minutes in a pressure cooker Ingredients • Dried chickpeas – 1 ¼ cups (235 g) • Water (4 cups/1 liter if pressure-cooked) – 5 ½ cups (1.3 liters) • Ghee or peanut oil – 5 tablespoons (75 ml) • Scraped, minced...
Munchy Chickpea Flour Spirals with Sesame Seeds
This snack could easily become as popular as pretzels. It is a crunchy spiral, made from roasted chickpea flour and rice flour, shaped by forcing soft dough through a star-shaped nozzle or disk. A seviya machine is used to shape this and several other fried snacks in this chapter. It is available at Indian grocery stores. Because any star shape will do, you can also use a pastry bag fitted with a 5-star nozzle or a...
Mysore Pak
Ingredients • Chick pea flour (besan) – 2 cups • Ghee – 1 ½ cups • Sugar – 2 cups • Water – ¼ or ½ cups Preparation 1. Put besan in a bowl. Use fresh besan for best results. 2. See that there are no lumps in the besan if there are lumps you can sieve it. 3. Put ½ cup warm ghee and mix well making sure there are no lumps 4. Pour the remaining 1 cup ghee and...
Motichur Laddoo
Ingredients • Gram flour (besan) – 2 cups • Clarified butter (ghee) – 2 cups • Sugar – ¾ cups • Almonds, finely chopped – 2 tbsp • Cardamom powder – ½ tsp • Edible saffron color – ¼ tsp • Cashew – 2 tbsp Preparation 1. Mix gram flour with just enough water to make a thick Batter and add color to it. 2. Heat clarified butter (ghee)...
