Soru Chakli | Shoru Chakli Pitha
It's a crepe made from Rice flour and urad dal and is typically had during Makar Sankranti.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Gobindobhog rice
- 1/2 cup Urad Dal husked black gram
- 1.5 tsp fennel seeds
- 3 tsp ghee
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Soak Urad dal and rice separately in water and keep overnight. In the morning, grind the dal first with little water and keep in a mixing bowl. Now grind the rice with little water and add to the dal paste.
- Don’t try to grind them together because the consistency is different and it takes longer to do it.
- Add fennel seeds (you can smash them a bit in a mortar and pestle for more flavour), 1 tsp ghee and salt to taste.
- Add just very little water and whisk. Add as much water as is required for a thin batter but it should coat the back of a spoon, like a dosa batter or crepe batter.
- Take a frying pan or an iron griddle and heat it. Brush little ghee and then pour a ladle full of batter on that. Spread it either by swirling the pan or with the back of the ladle. Spread it thin and lower the heat.
- Cover and cook. It takes a couple of minutes (depending on the thickness) for the batter to cook. It should not be fried. It should ideally be a soft crepe kind of texture.
- Once it is cooked through, slide it onto a plate and fold.
- Serve it with nolen gur and some vegetables on the side. It could be any side of potatoes.