Oats and Rava Dhokla
A healthy diabetic-friendly Oats and Rava Dhokla recipe prepared with powdered oats and fine semolina. This Gujarati delicacy is a guilt-free snack!
Servings: 4
Calories: 168kcal
Ingredients
- ½ cup Oats Flour
- ½ cup Rava / Fine Sooji / Semolina
- ½ cup Water
- Baking soda a pinch
- Hing a pinch
- Ginger 1-inch piece
- 1 Green chilly
- 1 tbsps Chopped Cilantro + for garnish
- ¾ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- ¼ cup Curd
- ¼ tsp Fruit salt
For tempering
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 2 tsps White Sesame seeds
- 5 Curry leaves broken into few pieces
- 1 Green chili
Instructions
Prep – Work
- Chop the ginger and green chili and coarsely grind them.
- Chop the cilantro, green chili and break the curry leaves into small pieces for tempering and set aside.
- Prepare the oats flour as mentioned above.
Steps
- In a wide mixing bowl, add the rava, powdered oats, baking soda, hing, salt, salt, sugar and ginger chili paste, chopped cilantro and yogurt.
- Now mix it nicely without any lumps and then add ½ cup of water and mix again.
- Let it rest for 15 minutes.
- I don’t have Dhokla steamer, and this is how I steam it.
- In a wide flat kadai or pan (with lid), I added about 1 cup of water and let it boil. Once the bubble starts to form, add a small plate or like stainless steel coaster like below.
- Meanwhile, grease a wide plate or bowl with one tsp of oil that will go inside you flat pan.
- At this stage add the Eno fruit salt and stir vigorously. The batter should rise nicely. Now pour this mixture into the greased plate and place that inside the pan and cover it with the lid.
- Let it steam for about 20 to 22 minutes. Remove the lid and insert a toothpick and if it comes out clean, then the Dhokla is done.
- Turn off the heat and let it cool for 5 minutes. With a knife, go around the edges so that we can separate the Dhokla quickly.
- Now turn it upside down on a plate and overturn it again so that the base goes down.
Tempering
- Heat a small pan or kadai and add oil.
- Once the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds, sesame seeds, hing, chopped green chilies, and curry leaves. Sauté for a couple of minutes and spread this tadka on top of the Dhokla.
- Then garnish it cilantro and chop the Dhokla into small squares or your favorite shapes and serve it with green chutney and sweet chutney.
Notes
- Adding rava helps in getting the proper texture. I have to try reducing the quantity. So far I have tried preparing dhoklas with equal measure.
- Instead of yogurt, you can add ¼ of citric acid and add ¼ more cup of water to prepare the dhokla mix.
- Adjust the salt and spice as per your preference.
- Grated coconut can be added during the tempering.
Nutrition
Calories: 168kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 662mg | Potassium: 94mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 47IU | Vitamin C: 28mg | Calcium: 46mg | Iron: 2mg