Litti (cuisine)
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Bihari Litti is generally served with a bowl of melted pure desi ghee and usually eaten with Youghurt, Baigan Bharta, Alu bharta, and Papad.
Now this is becoming the popular cuisine of North India.

Ingredients Required

  • Wheat
    Wheat
    Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

     Flour
    Flour
    Flour is a powder which is made by grinding cereal grains, other seeds or roots . It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history...

     (Atta)
  • Roasted Gram
    Gram
    The gram is a metric system unit of mass....

     Flour
    Flour
    Flour is a powder which is made by grinding cereal grains, other seeds or roots . It is the main ingredient of bread, which is a staple food for many cultures, making the availability of adequate supplies of flour a major economic and political issue at various times throughout history...

     (Sattu
    Sattu
    Sattu or Chhatua are ground powders of pulses and cereals like horse gram , green gram, jowar, wheat, oat, barley, etc. These are consumed along with fruit slices, sugar or milk. Green chilli, lemon juice and salt are sometimes added as flavouring...

    )
  • Dry Mango
    Mango
    The mango is a fleshy stone fruit belonging to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is native to India from where it spread all over the world. It is also the most cultivated fruit of the tropical world. While...

     Powder
    Powder (substance)
    A powder is a dry,thick bulk solid composed of a large number of very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials, although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish separate classes of material...

     (Amchoor)
  • Thyme
    Thyme
    Thyme is a culinary and medicinal herb of the genus Thymus.-History:Ancient Egyptians used thyme for embalming. The ancient Greeks used it in their baths and burnt it as incense in their temples, believing it was a source of courage...

     seeds (Aazwain)
  • Nigella
    Nigella
    Nigella is a genus of about 14 species of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to southern Europe, north Africa, south and southwest Asia. Common names applied to members of this genus are devil-in-a-bush or love in a mist....

     seeds (Mangrella)
  • Mustard Oil
    Mustard oil
    The term mustard oil is used for three different oils that are made from mustard seeds:*A fatty vegetable oil resulting from pressing the seeds,...

     (Sarson ka Teil)
  • Green Chilli (Hari Mirch)
  • Salt
    Salt
    In chemistry, salts are ionic compounds that result from the neutralization reaction of an acid and a base. They are composed of cations and anions so that the product is electrically neutral...

     (Namak)
  • Crushed Ginger
    Ginger
    Ginger is the rhizome of the plant Zingiber officinale, consumed as a delicacy, medicine, or spice. It lends its name to its genus and family . Other notable members of this plant family are turmeric, cardamom, and galangal....

     (Adrakh)
  • Lemon
    Lemon
    The lemon is both a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world – primarily for its juice, though the pulp and rind are also used, mainly in cooking and baking...

     juice
  • Onion
    Onion
    The onion , also known as the bulb onion, common onion and garden onion, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. The genus Allium also contains a number of other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion The onion...

     (Pyaj)
  • Garlic
    Garlic
    Allium sativum, commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion genus, Allium. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, and rakkyo. Dating back over 6,000 years, garlic is native to central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent...

     (Lahsun)

Method of prepatation



  • Make dough from atta using yogurt and hot water. The dough should be soft and fully kneaded. Keep aside covered.
  • Make a stuffing or filling of sattu by mixing all the ingredients required, namely, chopped onions, garlic, and chillies.
    • Chop onion, garlic, and chillies into small pieces
    • Add it to Sattu
    • Add salt, azwain, amchoor and mustard oil, and lemon juice
    • Mix it well using spoon or hand to make the stuffing
  • Now make a cup out of the flour dough
  • Now put the stuffing into this and close the openings
  • Now press the ball gently to flatten it a bit
  • Now put this into the oven till it is baked

See also

  • Bihari cuisine
    Bihari cuisine
    Bihari cuisine is eaten mainly in Bihar,Jharkhand, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago as these are they places where Bihari people are present...


- also try adding a pinch of baking soda to get soft Litti, as it is baked', qty to add: 1/4 tea spoon per cup of flour.
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