Boil daal with sufficient water, salt and turmeric powder.
Heat ghee in a pan, add hing and jeera. When jeera starts crackling, fry onion, ginger and green chili and fry until soft and change in color. (You may also fry chopped or pureed tomato)
Add red chili powder and coriander powder, fry.
Add daal and cook until it leaves ghee. Switch off the gas, cover and ready to serve.
Baati
Take aata, suji, besan, salt, soda powder and ajwain in a wide big bowl and mix well.
Add ghee and rub in between palms, it will look as bread crumbs.
Now using warm water start kneading the dough to just combine, do not over knead. Cover and keep aside for 15-20 minutes.
Divide the dough in to small lemon sized balls and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown in color.
Now when done take a batti in a kitchen towel and press lightly in between your palms to break it a bit and then soak in to melted warm ghee.
Remove and serve hot. Enjoy!
Churma
The traditional way to prepare churma is to make small balls of baati dough, deep fry them, break them and then mix with sugar and nuts. But here i have an easy less oily method… hope you like it.
For that, take baked and soaked baati, sugar and nuts in to a food processor and grind it well.
Take in bowl, add few more nuts (if you want) and serve.
Daal baati churma is ready serve with salad and buttermilk. Have this in a traditional way of eating by breaking baati and pour daal over it and eat with hands.
Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
You may make any type of daal with baati, it depends on personal liking, like mix daal, panchmale daal, toor daal, urad daal etc.
To serve with baati, daal should be of pouring consistency.
You may temper daal with red chili fried in ghee.
For baati do not overknead the dough otherwise baati will be hard, dough should be kneaded to just combine.
Do not work too much while rolling balls of dough. just pinch the dough and give a shape of ball.
Traditionally we have baati oven seperately but here we can bake in usual oven also at 180°C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown in color.
Break slightly and keep them soaked in warm melted ghee for atleast 2-3 minutes for better taste.
You may bake baati in batches of use. Because it taste yummy when its hot.
The traditional way to prepare churma is to make small balls of baati dough, deep fry them, break them and then mix with sugar and nuts. But here i use an easy less oily method… hope you like it, otherwise you may make it traditionally as well.