Vrat ka dhokla- a steamed cake made with sago and millet – easy snack recipe for fasting
vrat ka dhokla is a quick and oil free snack for fasting . usually the food we make for fasting is often rich in calories as most of the pakora , pooris are deep fried. This one recipe is very light on stomach too. you can make this for fasting and on regular days too.
Samak is a healthy gluten free millet used for making so many vrat ki recipes. it is also popular as vrat ke chawal. you can substitute it for any rice recipe. Samak is named as sama, varai, vari, jhingora, samat, bhgar, samwa, moraiyo,swang etc.
It absorb lots of water and swells up while cooking . I usually make pulav and khichdi with samak for a filling meal during fasting. It goes well with yogurt or vrat ki kadhi. Samak is also used to make idli, dhokla and vrat ka dosa. it is quite versatile grain to use and try many recipes.
you can make it in two ways . either soak both sago and samo and then grind them into a paste or dry grind them and then add water and curd and make a batter. Add green chili ginger ot just pepper powder if you don’t use ginger chilies in fasting. add little sour yogurt for mixing else add some lemon juice or tatri in it for sourness.
This dhokla you can serve with vrat wali green chutney, mango chutney or just with some curd or tea.
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vrat ka dhokla
Ingredients
- 1 cup Samu /samak /tandul /varai
- 1/3 cup Tapioca Pearls / Sago / Sabudana
- 1/2 cup Yogurt/Curd sour
- 1 tsp Green chili paste
- 1 tsp Ginger paste
- 1 tsp Sugar / Chini
- 1 tsp Lemon Juice / Nimbu Ka Ras
- 2 tsp Cooking oil
- 1 tsp Eno fruit salt
- 2 tbs Fresh Coriander / Cilantro / Hara Dhaniya
- To taste Sendha Namak /Rock Salt
tadka-
- 2 tsp Cooking Oil
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1 tsp Sesame seeds /til
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- few Curry Leaves
- 1 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch
Instructions
- In tye mixer jar add samak rice and make a fine powder nad thgen take out the powder in a bowl.
- Add sabudana in the jar and grind to make a fine powder and now mix both the powders in the bowl.
- Add green chili paste, ginger paste, 2 tsp oil, salt, sugar , lemon juice and the yogurt in the sabudana and samak powders and then mix well.
- Add water to make a smooth paste of pouring consistency
- Cover and keep aside for 2 hours.
- Check the batter and if become thick then add some water and mix, it should be slight thinner then the regular idli batter.
- Grease a dhokla plate with some peanut oil or butter.
- Add water in the dhokla steamer and when it start boiling then add eno in the dhokla batter and mix well.
- let the dhokla steam for about 15-20 minutes in the steamer on high heat.
- You can also steam these dhokla in a microwave using silicon mold.
- Now check the dhokla and if it is done perfectly then switch off the heat and let it rest for 3-4 minutes.
- Now remove the steamer lid and remove the dhokla plate and cut into desired shapes.
- Heat some oil in a tadka pan and add cumin and sesame seeds, when crackling then add asafoetida, curry leaves and few green chili pieces in the tadka oil.
- Pour the tadka on the dhokla pieces and serve hot with chutney and tea.