Fried Litti With Mashed Brinjals,Potato and Tomato

FRIED LITTI WITH MASHED BRINJALS, POTATO, AND TOMATO

Hello and welcome back dear friends. Today I’m going to share a simple yet celebrated dish from Bihar called Fried Litti Chokha along with mashed brinjals, potato, and tomato or baingan bharta. This dish can be had at breakfast or brunch and is really very tasty and likable and which is a delicacy of Bihar too. The dish is really for everyone. And I hope you will like it too. So let’s start with its making—

Ingredients:-For the fried littis:-

1. Wheat Flour-300 gms
2. Cumin-1 tsp
3. Baking Powder-1  tsp
4. Vegetable Oil-2 tbsp
5. Salt-According to taste

For the Roasted Gram Flour or Sattu filling:–

1. Roasted Gram Flour or Sattu-200 gms
2. Onions-2
3. Green Chillies-4
4. Red Chilly Powder-1 tsp
5. Dry Mango Powder-2 tsp
6. Ginger-Garlic, finely chopped-2 tsp
7. Carom Seeds-1 tsp
8. Salt-According to taste

For the Mashed Brinjals, Potato And tomato:-

1. Brinjals-2
2. Tomatoes-1
3. Potatoes-1
4. Onions-1
5. Green Chillies-2
6. Dry Mango Powder-1 tsp
7. Red Chilly Powder-1/2 tsp
8. Mustard Oil-2 tsp
9. Chopped Cilantro-A bunch
10. Salt-According to taste

STEPS

Step 1

To make the littis, take a bowl and add wheat flour, salt, carom seeds, baking powder, oil, and with water make out a pliable dough of it. Now take small portions and make out balls from it. Chop the onions, green chilies and cilantro finely.

Step 2

For the roasted gram flour filling, Take a bowl, add the sattu, chopped onions, green chilies, cilantro, salt, carom seeds, dry mango powder, chopped ginger-garlic and mix everything well.

Step 3

Fill the filling of sattu in the small balls made out of the dough. Seal them well and press them a bit with the palm of your hand. Keep it aside.

Step 4

Heat oil in a kadhai. When done so, drop the balls in the oil and fry them out till golden browned. Drain oil on a tissue paper.

Our Fried Littis are done.

Mashed Brinjals, Potato, and tomato 

Step 5

Wash and make slits in the brinjals and tomatoes. Boil the potato.Roast the brinjals and tomatoes. Wash, remove the skin and mash the brinjal and tomato in a bowl with a masher. Add the boiled potato too. Now add in the chopped onions, green chilies, cilantro, salt, dry mango powder, red chilly powder and mustard oil and give it a good mix.

Our Mashed Brinjals, Potato And Tomato is done.

Serve the fried littis along with the mashed brinjals, tomato, and potato. This dish can be had preferably at breakfast or brunch. It is a famous dish of Bihar, its origin place and generally liked by all.

Friends do try the recipe at home. Share your comments and feedback. Have a great week everyone. Till then healthy cooking, happy living!!!