Chilla (pancake)
From angelarmck 14 years ago
- 20min to make
- Serves 2
Chilla are a kind of pancake, made with Gram/ Besan flour. This flour is made with ground chickpeas. You cannot make them with ordinary flour,(I have tried.)
Ingredients
- 8 tbsps of chickpea flour or Besan flour, as commonly known in Indian cookery shopping list
- 3 - 4 spring onions or 1 small onion shopping list
- ¼ of a green or red pepper shopping list
- sunflower oil shopping list
- salt to taste shopping list
- 2 tsps lemon juice shopping list
- ⅛ tsp red chilli powder shopping list
- ¼ tsp Bishop’s seeds or “ajwain” seeds, (asit is known in Indian cookery,)optional shopping list
- 1 tbsp freshly chopped coriander, optional shopping list
- 1 green chilli, finely chopped, optional shopping list
How to make it
- Wash and chop the spring onions and pepper quite finely and set aside
- Sift the Besan flour into a bowl
- Add the salt, chilli powder and lemon juice
- Add water gradually to the flour mix and keep stirring with a wooden spoon The batter should be easily droppable consistency - not too runny !
- Add the chopped vegetables and any or all of the optional ingredients
- Heat a non-stick frying pan, keeping it on low to medium heat
- Spread a small amount of sunflower oil on the pan
- Drop a ladleful of batter mixture in the middle of the pan and gently spread to make a circle
- Let it cook for 3 - 4 minutes before you gently lift it with a fish knife. (If it is sticky and you cannot turn it easily, leave it for a further minute or two)
- Turn it over and cook the other side for 3 - 4 minutes also. Some brown crusts should form and then you know it’s cooked
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