Besan Gatte
Gram flour dumplings simmered in spiced yogurt gravy. Damoh Bundelkhand home cooking staple served with steamed rice.
Ingredients
Garnish
- Coriander Leaves (optional) (garnish) — 2 tbsp (chopped)
Main
- coriander powder — 1 tsp (ground)
- salt (optional) (whole)
- Tomato — 2 piece (chopped)
- Garlic — 1 tsp (ground)
- Curd — 100 g (whole)
- Gram Flour — 250 g (ground)
- onion — 2 piece (chopped)
- Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch) — 1 tsp (ground)
- Turmeric Powder — 0.5 tsp (ground)
- rice — 100 g (ground)
- Ginger — 1 tsp (ground)
Tempering
- oil — 2 tbsp (whole)
- Cumin Seeds — 1 tsp (whole)
Method
- Heat the oil in a kadhai over medium flame, crackle the Cumin Seeds for 30 seconds, then lower the flame and keep this tempering ready.
- Knead the Gram Flour with salt, Turmeric Powder and 60-70 ml water into a stiff dough and roll it into 4 thin logs.
- Boil the logs in salted water 12-14 minutes until firm, cool them, and cut into 2 cm gatte; keep 200 ml of the cooking water.
- Bring the tempering back to medium flame, add the chopped onion and fry 6-7 minutes until golden, then add the Ginger and Garlic for a minute.
- Add the chopped Tomato, Red Chilli Powder and coriander powder and cook 6 minutes until the oil separates.
- Take the pan off the heat, whisk the Curd smooth, stir it in, then cook 4 minutes on the lowest flame so it does not split.
- Add the gatte with the reserved cooking water and simmer 7 minutes until the gravy coats them.
- Cook the rice separately, garnish the gatte with Coriander Leaves and serve hot with the rice.
Common questions
- Besan Gatte ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- दमोह बेसन गट्टे ko English mein Besan Gatte likhte hain.
- Ek plate Besan Gatte mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 266 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 45 min lagta hai — 20 min taiyari, 25 min pakana.