Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, pithla/jhunka/zunka (gramflour porridge). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Jhunka or Zunka is a vegetarian traditional Indian dish prepared in Maharashtra , Goa and North Karnataka. It is essentially a chickpea flour porridge. It is also known by the name of pithla or pithle.
Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pithla/jhunka/zunka (gramflour porridge) using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge):
- Take 1 cup besan (gram flour)
- Prepare 1 tea spoon haldi (turmeric powder)
- Get 1 teaspoon salt (or as required)
- Take 1 cup water
- Get 1 green chilli
- Make ready a few curry leaves
- Take 2-3 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 X2 inch cube of ginger
- Prepare 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Prepare 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Make ready 1 big onion
- Prepare 1 big tomato
- Make ready Generous amount of coriander (for garnishing)
- Prepare 1 spring onion (for garnishing) (optional)
- Get 1 tablespoon oil
Jhunka or Zunka is a vegetarian traditional Indian dish prepared in Maharashtra , Goa and North Karnataka. It is essentially a chickpea flour porridge. It is also known by the name of pithla or pithle. Jhunka -Bhakar-Pithla is a staple food of rural Maharashtra.
Instructions to make Pithla/Jhunka/Zunka (gramflour porridge):
- Mix besan (gram flour), haldi (turmeric powder), salt and water until no lumps are formed. (red chilly powder can be added if you like)
- Cut small pieces of ginger, garlic, green chilli and curry leaves and keep aside
- Heat one tablespoon of oil in a pan on high heat and add cumin and mustard seeds. Let it crack. Then turn the heat to medium high and add the cut ginger, garlic, chilli and curry leaves. Let it become crip and brown and take it out in a separate bowl (i love the flavour of burnt garlic and ginger in almost everything). This we call tadka.
- In the same pan (with the leftover oil from above step) add cut onion, cook until its translucent and add cut tomato and cook until its shiny (releases oil)
- Now add the gram flour slurry (which we made in step 1) by continuously mixing. Keep mixing with a spoon until it starts becoming a thick paste (you can add more water here if you need the consistency to be more runny)
- Take it out in a serving bowl and sprinkle the tadka (we made in the step 3)
- Garnish with coriander and spring onion and serve
Jhunka , a spicy preparation of gram flour and onions needs no introduction to most Indians. It is drier than pithla which is again made of gram flour but differs in consistency. Pithla alone is also relished with rice and ghee(also known as. North Karnataka style Zunka or Jhunka recipe explained with step by step pictures. This is a very popular curry prepared using gram flour.
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