Handvoh

Preparation Time: 20
Cooking Time: 45 min
Ingredients

• 1 cup rice flour (chawal ka atta)
• 1 cup yellow moong dal (split yellow gram) flour
• 1 medium bottle gourd (doodhi / lauki)
• 2 medium carrots
• 2 tbsp corn (makai ke dane)
• 3 tbsp chopped coriander (dhania)
• 3 to 4 green chillies
• 3 cups buttermilk
• 3/4 tsp soda bi carb
• 1 tsp urad dal (split black lentils)
• 1 tsp chana dal (split Bengal gram)
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds ( rai / sarson)
• 2 tbsp oil
• salt to taste

Method

1. Grate the carrots and bottle gourd. boil the corn. mix the flours, soda bicarbonate, salt and buttermilk in a large vessel. keep aside for 5-6 hours to ferment. add the grated bottle gourd, carrots, corn, coriander leaves and green chillies and salt as per taste.
2. Heat oil in a small pan, add the cumin seeds, mustard seeds, urad dal and chana dal. fry till the seeds start spluttering. add this seasoning into the batter. mix well. pour the batter into a greased oven-proof dish and bake in a pre heated oven at 280 c for 10 minutes. reduce the temperature of the oven to about 180-200 c and bake for another 30 m