THE MAGICAL HANDS: Rice Fara Recipe

Rice Fara is a traditional dish of northern India,which is very popular in Uttar-Pradesh and is made during special and auspicious occasion, this dish consumes the lesser quantity of oil. My mother makes yummy fara with tomato and garlic chutney, fries these steamed fara in rai, green chillies and handful of fresh curry leaves........Aahhhh😇😇 the taste and aroma .I love fara every bite melts in the mouth instantly.

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 1 cup

Split chickpeas soaked- ¼ cup (chana dal)

Green chilli - 3 to 4

Ginger paste - 1 tsp

Red chilli powder - 0.75 tsp

Green coriander (finely chopped) - 2 to 3 tbsp

Turmeric powder- ¼ tsp

Coriander powder - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds -¼ tsp

Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp

Ghee - 1 tbsp

Salt - 1.25 tsp

Oil - 1 tbsp

Procedure:

•Take a vessel, add a cup of water in it and boil it. Add 2 teaspoons of clarified butter along with a ½ teaspoon of salt to it. After it has reached its boiling point, switch off the flame. Add a cup of rice flour to it and mix well

•Soak a ¼ cup of split chickpeas, a ¼ cup of Urad Dal for 3 to 4 hours in the water. After 3 to 4 hours, grind the soaked Dals coarsely ground. Add 2 finely chopped green chillies, a teaspoon of ginger paste, a ½ teaspoon of red chilli powder, a ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder to it.

•Add a teaspoon of coriander powder, some chopped green coriander, a ½ teaspoon of salt to it. Mix all the ingredients well and the stuffing is ready.

•Pour the dough in a plate and apply some clarified butter on your palms. Mash the dough until it reaches to its soft texture. While mashing it, use 3 to 4 teaspoons of water for it. Divide the dough into smaller sized dough lumps and roll a dough lump between your palms.

•Press to give it a shape of Peda and coat it with dry rice flour. Flatten the dough lump thickly into a diameter of 3 to 4 inches. Cut it using a cap of container or glass. Hold the flattened dough in your palm and place some stuffing over it. Fold it and assemble all the Faras likewise.

•Preheat 2 to 3 cups of water in a vessel, place a strainer over it and grease it with oil. Place some Fara over the strainer and cook while covering it for 10 minutes on medium to high flame. The Faras has steamed cooked after 10 minutes.

Happy cooking ❤