Handavo..a simple gujarati dish.
By: Usha Chowdhary Gupta
Published: Friday, June 24, 2011 - 3:32am

Ingredients




Soak for the batter..
1 cup or small glass thick quality Rice,
also available as dhokla, idli or dosa rice,
1 cup or small glass of mix dals like chana dal,
tur dal, moong dal, urad dal.
1/2 cup grated Bottle gourd,with all its
juice squeezed out,
1 small sized onion cut,
Grind to a paste..
2 green chillies,
a small piece of Ginger,
4 cloves of Garlic.
1 teaspoon Red chilly powder,
1/2 teaspoon Turmeric poeder,
2 tablespoons sugar,
1/2 teaspoon Baking powder,
1/4 teaspoon soda-bi- carb with few drops
of lime juice.
2 tablespoons White sesame seeds, roasted,
Salt to taste.
Tempering ...
2 tablespoons Oil,
1/2 teaspoon Mustard seeds,
Few Curry leaves,
1/4 teaspoon Red chilly powder.

Preparation

1 Soak the rice n dals together, overnight. 2 Drain the water, next morning and grind in 3 a mixer, little coarsely, use some curd while 4 grinding. Keep in sunlight to ferment for
 5  4-5 hours at least. 6 Preheat the oven to 200 degrees centigrade. 7 Grate the bottle gourd n squeeze all juice, 8 then add to the batter, also add finely cut onion. 9 Now add the ground paste of ginger, garlic n green 10 chillies, add all the masalas n the baking powder, soda-bi carb. 11 Prepare a tempering and take it off the heat before adding 12 the chilly powder. Add the tempering to the batter, mix well. 13 Check salt and whether all other ingredients are okay. 14 Pour into a greased baking dish n sprinkle the roasted sesame seeds. 15 Put in hot oven to bake at 200 degrees centigrade, for 40 to 45 minutes. 16  check in bet'n. when cool cut into pieces and serve. 17 Serve with a green chutney with a touch of garlic..

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a baked snack item.