Author Notes
Its one of the very basic recipes in Indian kitchen.
Mostly served as breakfast! Easy to make yet very tasty and filling.. —Nirzara Verulkar
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Ingredients
- Green Gram Pancakes
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1/2 cup
Green Gram
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4
Green Chillis
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1/2 inch pieces
Ginger
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1/2 teaspoon
Salt
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as per the requirement
Water
- Tomato Sauce
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2
Fresh Tomato
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1/2 tablespoon
Split Ckickpeas
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5
Red Chillies
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2 tablespoons
Oil
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1 pinch
Asafoetida
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1/2 tablespoon
Curd
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1/2 teaspoon
Sugar
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1/2 teaspoon
Mustard seeds (To temper)
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1 sprig
Curry leaves (To temper)
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1 tablespoon
Ground peanuts (Optional)
Directions
- Green Gram Pancakes
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1. Soak green gram for 12 hours. As it is soaked well,
Grind the gram coarsely in a grinder. Transfer it to another bowl.
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2. Chop green chillies, ginger and garlic finely and grind the ingredients.
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3. Add the green chilli, garlic and ginger mixture to the ground green gram batter and mix well. Add salt as per your taste.
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5. Heat a pan. Keep it on a medium flame and add one fourth cup of the batter over greased pan. Cover the pancake as its cooking. Flip and cook for a minute.
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6. Serve it hot with fresh tomato sauce.
- Tomato Sauce
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1. Fry red chilies, split chickpeas in one tablespoon off oil, until golden.Transfer it into a grinder. Add two tbsp of grated coconut.Add a pinch of asafetida, salt as per you taste and grind.
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2. Now add cubed tomatoes to the heated pan, fry until soft and transfer to the chili, chickpeas mixture (in the grinder) and grind again.
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3. Add sugar as per your taste. Transfer the mixture to another bowl Add some curd. Mix gently with a spoon.(You can use peanuts instead of Split chickpeas).
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4. Heat one teaspoon of oil in a small pan. Add mustard seeds. Let them splutter. Then add one spring of curry leaves. Add this to the ground tomato mixture.
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5. Serve it with some hot green gram pancakes!
Enjoy it like a breakfast dish or an evening snacks.
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