
Pithla Bhakri
Gram flour gravy with millet flatbread. Simple everyday comfort food.
Ise pitla bhakri, pithla bhakar, pithale bhakri naam se bhi khoja jata hai.
Time 25 min · Serves 4 · 443 kcal · Pune, Maharashtra
Ingredients
Garnish
- Coriander Leaves (garnish) — 10 g
Main
- green chillies — 8 g
- onion — 100 g
- Turmeric Powder — 2 g
- salt — 6 g
- Water — 700 g
- oil — 30 g
- Gram Flour — 100 g
- Garlic — 10 g
- Jowar Flour — 300 g
Tempering
- Mustard Seeds (Black) — 3 g
- Asafoetida — 1 g
- Cumin Seeds — 2 g
Method
- Knead jowar flour with warm water and a pinch of salt.
- Pat a small ball into a thin bhakri by hand.
- Cook on a hot tawa, wipe top with water, flip.
- Puff it directly on the flame. Repeat for all.
- Whisk gram flour in water with turmeric and salt, no lumps.
- Heat oil; add mustard, cumin, hing, garlic and chillies.
- Add chopped onion; fry till soft.
- Pour in the besan mix, stirring all the time.
- Cover and cook till thick and glossy.
- Garnish with coriander. Serve with hot bhakri.
Common questions
- Pithla Bhakri ko English mein kya kehte hain?
- पिथ्ल भाकरी ko English mein Pithla Bhakri likhte hain.
- Ek plate Pithla Bhakri mein kitni calories hoti hain?
- 443 kcal per plate.
- Kitna time lagta hai?
- 25 min lagta hai — 10 min taiyari, 15 min pakana.
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