Samo Dhokla

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 12 minutes
Ingredients

• 1 cup sanwa millet (sama)
• 1/2 cup low fat curds (dahi) (required for soaking Samo)
• 1/4 cup grated bottle gourd (doodhi / lauki)
• (dudhi)
• 1 tsp ginger-green chilli paste
• coriander (dhania) leaves
• salt as per taste
• 1/2 tsp eno fruit salt

Method

1. Mix yogurt and samo (such that samo is just soaked in yogurt) and leave for 1 hour
2. Grind them together in a mixer, alongwith the required quantity of salt.
3. Leave this batter to ferment for 8 hours.
4. Before preparing, add grated bottlegourd, ginger- green chillies paste, eno and handful of finely cut corriander leaves.
5. Keep water for boiling in a dhokla vessel or any broad bottomed vessel with lid.
6. Grease a thali or any low height steel container.
7. Pour required amount of dhokla batter into this thali, sprinkle some black pepper and keep it in the dhokla vessel for steaming.
8. Allow to steam for 12 minutes.
9. Cool and cut into diamond shapes and serve with farali green chutney and peanut oil.