Thalipit Recipe

 

This thalipit recipe I learned from my mother-in-law. For this you have to prepare seperate thalipit flour. Here is the list of ingredients for thalipit flour.

Thalipit Flour

• Rice - 4 cups
• Chana dal (yellow gram ) - 1 cup
• Black gram or Urad Dal - 1 cup
• Sabudana or tapioca seeds - 1 tea spoon
• Beaten rice or poha - 1 table spoon
• Methi or fenugreek seeds - 1 teaspoon
• corriander seeds or dhaniya - 2 teaspoon
• Jeera or cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon

Dry roast rice, chana dal and black gram seperately. Do not over roast these. Get these milled in a flour mill and store in an airtight box. This can also be used as chakli flour.

Making Thalipit

Ingredients for thalipit

Thalipit flour - 2 cups

Wheat flour - 3 cups

Cucumber - 1 ( grated along with skin)

Green chillies - 3 to 4 ( or according to taste)

Red chilli powder - 2 teaspoons. 

Garlic - 10 cloves (optional)

Jeera - 1 teaspoon

Curd - 1 cup

Ghee - 2 teaspoon

Turmeric - 1/2 teaspoon

Sesame seeds - 3 teaspoons

Finely chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves - 1 tablespoon

Hing - 1/4 teaspoon

Salt to taste.

Lemon juice - 2 teaspoon

Water - quantity sufficient

Grind garlic, green chillies, lemon juice, jeera to a coarse paste.  Add all ingredients together and mix well. If needed add water little by little and kneed everything to a dough of chapati dough consitency. Keep this dough aside after covering it with a plate.

After 30 minutes kneed the dough , and squeeze small portions of this dough and make small round balls. Sprinkle some wheat flour on a rolling board and roll these balls with a rolling pin into small round rotis. Cook these on tawa with cooking oil or ghee. Roast this thalipit on both sides. Always take care to maintain medium flame or heat. 

Savour this with butter, curd and pickle. Or else you can also make chickpea Usli.

Susla A North Karnataka Delicacy

Susla is a famous tea time snack or breakfast recipe in North Karnataka. It is savoured with KT Chai. Here goes simple recipe.

Ingredients

Puffed rice ಕಡ್ಲೆಪುರಿ -  3 cups

Roasted chick pea (ಪುಟಾಣಿ, ಹುರಿಗಡಲೆ)- 1 cup , powdered

Onion - 2 finely chopped (optional)

Green chilli - 2 finely chopped

Curry leaves -10 to 15

Peanuts - 1/2 cup

Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup

Lemon juice - 2 tsp

Turmeric - 1/2 tea spoon

Mustard - 1 tsp

Jeera or cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Asafetida - 1 pinch

Cooking oil - 20 ml

Salt to taste

Heat a kadai or woke. Put oil and heat it. Add mustard and jeera. When they splutter add green chilli, curry leaves, and peanuts. Roast everything well. Add onion and fry till the raw smell is lost. Add turmeric and asafetida. 

When onion is getting fried, take a big bowl of water and add puffed rice to it. Just wash it (don't soak it) squeeze water  and then transfer to woke. Add powdered puffed gram , finely chopped coriander, lemon juice, little sugar. Adjust salt. Mix well and cover the lid. Cook for 2 minutes. Serve it hot with hot chai.