Piyush Pathak/Alwar.With the onset of winter, people’s eating habits also start changing; in winter, people prefer to eat hot dishes. Even in Alwar, many people like the dish Dal Dhokla known as Mewar. This Dal Dhokla is not made at any dhaba in Alwar, rather people make it at their homes and eat it with pleasure with the family. Although many people of Alwar do not know about this Mewadi dish, Dhokla is spicy to eat, due to which they like to eat it only in winters.
Dinesh, a resident of Alwar city, told that Mewadi dish Dal Dhokla is made from maize flour, special spices are used in it to make it tasty. Ginger, garlic, onion, spicy green chillies and green coriander along with spices enhance the taste of this dish. To add spiciness to Dholka, the ingredient used in making papad is used.
How to prepare Dhokla
First of all, add finely chopped ginger, finely chopped green chillies and green coriander to the maize flour, boil the Saji in water, add spices and knead the dough. Later, small dhoklas of maize flour mixed with spices are prepared by hand. Once the dhoklas are prepared from the whole dough, they are placed one on top of the other in a big vessel. Since the Dhokla dish is completely prepared in steam, hence a thin wooden platform is prepared and the Dhoklas are kept one by one in the vessel. Later, after adding the remaining water of Saji, put the vessel on low flame, after some time, steam starts forming in the vessel and after about an hour, the Dhokla is completely cooked in steam and ready.
This dish is prepared with spleen and crude oil
Dinesh told that although most of the cooking is prepared in oil and is not eaten separately with oil, but Mewadi dish Dhokla is the only dish which is eaten with raw oil of spleen. While eating it, the oil is not heated or cooked, rather dhokla is directly added to the urad dal and eaten hot with sesame oil. Although in Marwar, Dal Dhokli is made like Dhokla, but it is not prepared from maize flour and spices and other ingredients are also used in less quantity.
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Tags: food 18, Local18, Street Food
FIRST PUBLISHED: December 21, 2023, 13:03 IST
