Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pithla/jhunka/zunka (gramflour porridge). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge) I have been living in India throughout my life until I moved to London in February this year. While in India i have lived in Central India most of my life. Then I moved to the west, to the dream city of every Indian, Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) for my career.
Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pithla/jhunka/zunka (gramflour porridge) using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge):
- Take 1 cup besan (gram flour)
- Prepare 1 tea spoon haldi (turmeric powder)
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt (or as required)
- Make ready 1 cup water
- Prepare 1 green chilli
- Prepare a few curry leaves
- Make ready 2-3 cloves garlic
- Get 2 X2 inch cube of ginger
- Make ready 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Make ready 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Take 1 big onion
- Get 1 big tomato
- Get Generous amount of coriander (for garnishing)
- Prepare 1 spring onion (for garnishing) (optional)
- Take 1 tablespoon oil
Its ingredients are gram flour (besan), mixed with water to form a semi-solid paste. It is then sauteed in oil with any other assorted ingredients like green chillies, red chilly powder, turmeric. Jhunka or Zunka is a vegetarian traditional Indian dish prepared in Maharashtra ,Goa and north Karnataka. It is essentially a chickpea flour porridge.
Steps to make Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge):
- Mix besan (gram flour), haldi (turmeric powder), salt and water until no lumps are formed. (red chilly powder can be added if you like)
- Cut small pieces of ginger, garlic, green chilli and curry leaves and keep aside
- Heat one tablespoon of oil in a pan on high heat and add cumin and mustard seeds. Let it crack. Then turn the heat to medium high and add the cut ginger, garlic, chilli and curry leaves. Let it become crip and brown and take it out in a separate bowl (i love the flavour of burnt garlic and ginger in almost everything). This we call tadka.
- In the same pan (with the leftover oil from above step) add cut onion, cook until its translucent and add cut tomato and cook until its shiny (releases oil)
- Now add the gram flour slurry (which we made in step 1) by continuously mixing. Keep mixing with a spoon until it starts becoming a thick paste (you can add more water here if you need the consistency to be more runny)
- Take it out in a serving bowl and sprinkle the tadka (we made in the step 3)
- Garnish with coriander and spring onion and serve
It is also known by the name of pithla or pithle. It's ingredients are gram flour (besan) , mixed with water to form a semi-solid paste. It is sautéed in oil with… Jhunka (Zunka Or Pithale): Nutritional Value Of This Besan Porridge. As mentioned earlier, besan is rich in protein and dietary fibre. Zunka is a gram flour-based recipe, prepared with veggies like cabbage, capsicum, beans, etc.
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