Mung bean dhokla

Ingredients

• 1 cup mung bean
• 3 tbsp semolina
• 2 tbsp curd
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp ginger- green chilli paste
• 1 packet fruit salt / eno
• Salt as required
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tsp sesame seeds
• 1 tsp asafoetida

Steps

1. For preparing dhokla. Soak the moong beans in water for 6-7 hours or overnight.
2. Grind the soaked moong with very little water to a semi coarse paste.Do not make the paste too fine. Also the batter should not be too thick nor thin but like a dhokla batter.
3. Meanwhile heat water in a large pan and let it come to a boil. Grease dhokla plate with some oil.
4. Add curd, semolina,ginger-chili paste, oil, lemon juice and salt to the mixture and mix well.
5. Add fruit salt/eno to the dhokla mixture and mix very well
6. Immediately pour this in the greased plate. Place the dhokla plate in the large pan where the water must have already started boiling by now.
7. Cover the pan and steam for 20 minutes till the dhokla is done. Remove the dhokla from the cake tin and then let it cool.
8. Prepare tempering: In a small pan, heat oil, add mustard seeds and let them splutter. Add asafoetida, and sesame seeds. Pour this tempering over the dhokla.
9. Cut into desire pieces and serve mung bean dhokla warm with coriander chutney.