Handwa - Prachi

Ingredients:

Raw Rice – 2 Cups
Urad dal – ½ Cup
Tuar dal – ½ Cup
Moong dal – ½ Cup
Chana dal – ½ cup
Salt to taste
Sugar – 3 Tb. Sp
Turmeric pd. – 1 t.sp
Curd – 1 ½ cup sour curd
Soda-bi-carb – 1 t.sp.
Green Chilli, Ginger,Garlic Paste – 3 Tb. Sp
White til for decoration


For Seasoning:
Oil – 3tb. Sp
Mustard seeds – 1 t.sp
Fenugreek seeds – 1 t.sp
Small Red Chilli – 2
Curry Leaves – few
Asafoetida - a pinch


Method:

Soak the rice and the dals separately over night. Grind the rice, the dals and the curd in grinder for 20 mins. The mixture should be dropping consistency. Leave it for 5 hours for fermentation.

Add Salt, Sugar, turmeric pd., soda to the batter and mix it well. For the seasoning, heat the oil, fry the mustard seeds until they crackle. Add fenugreek seeds, red chilli, curry leaves and Asafoetida to it. Pour it to the batter. (Optional – you can also add grated carrot, green peas, finely chopped methi leaves etc.

Grease a pan with oil. Pour the mixture in it. Decorate it with white til. Bake it for 45 mins at 180 degree c in an oven. Let it cool down. Then cut it into required shapes.


For Yellow colour – 1 t sp.turmeric pd.
For Green colour – Make a paste of ½ cup green peas, ½ cup coriander leaves
and 3 greenchilli
For Red colour – make a paste of 1 boiled beet root, 1 tomato and ½ carrot.