Besan chilla

                        Besan chilla

Besan cheela is one of the quick breakfast or brunch or evening snack one can make. You just need to mix everything and prepare the cheela. these besan chilla also make for a healthy tiffin box snack.

besan chilla

                                           

Chilla recipe| Besan chilla recipe| besan cheela

Cooking time: 20 min.                                      Served: 4 to 5 cheela

Cooking type: Mix, Better, Heat                       Cuisine: North Indian,Punjabi

Eating time: Breakfast, Brunch                       Taste buds: Mild

Besan chilla is a simple pancake made with chickpea flour and some basic ingredients. these can be served with tea or a chutney.

Ingredients

·        1 cup gram

·        1 medium tomato

·        1 medium onion

·        1 pc green chili

·        2 tsp oil

·        Salt to taste

·        ½ tsp chat masala

·        ½ tsp turmeric powder

·        ½ cup water

method       

1.     In a bowl mix together besan, salt,chat masala and chopped onion, tomato, green chilli and a little water and make a thick better.

2.     Rest for 10-12 minutes. Heat a pan, spinkle a little oil pour spoonfuls of this better and spread evenly.

3.     Pour oil as required and prepare chillas.

4.     Serve with fresh green chutney or achaar or tea.

How to prepare besan chilla

2.   Take besan, turmeric powder, chat masala and salt in a bowl and Mix well.

       

3.   Add the chopped onion, green chili and tomato and Mix well, so all the flour is coated to veggies.

4.   Then mix.

5.   Add little water at a time and make lump free batter. If you dump all the water at once, you will get lumps of besan. Batter should be runny , adjust the water to get right consistency of batter, Also do a taste test to check salt.

6.    Heat the pan or tawa on medium heat. Once hot drizzle about 2 teaspoons of oil and let it get heat up. Once oil is hot, pour the ladleful of batter and spread it to make round shape pancake.

  now the pan with lid about 4-5 mins.

                              

  open the lid, Let the cheela gets cook on one side about 2 minutes or till gets golden brown.

7.       Once both sides are cooked, remove it to plate and serve.

besan chilla

8.   I would prefer to serve warm/hot.

                                       

Ø tips

1. Always cook cheela on medium heat .   (If cooked on high heat then it gets brown or black very quickly while besan still is in raw stage from inside. This rawness will ruin the taste.)
2. Before adding batter on tawa, make sure tawa and oil both is nicely hot.
3. Be generous while using oil. This will make crispy chillas.