Name: Paticha Pithala/ Spring onion with gram flour recipe by Prachi Gaddam at BetterButter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: Buttermilk 1 cup; Gram flour 2 cups; Spring onion with bulbs 1/2 bunch; Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon; Oil 1 teaspoon; green chillies 3; Curry leaves 6-7; Tomato 1 (optional); Ginger Garlic paste 2 teaspoon; Tempering: cumin and mustard seeds, asafotida; Salt to taste

ABOUT Paticha Pithala/ Spring onion with gram flour RECIPE

Pithala is a very famous dish in interiors of maharashtra. Pithala is enjoyed with bhakari/ chapati or rice in dinner. It is very simple and quick dish. There are various ways and preparations in which pithala is made in different regions of Maharashtra. This recipie elicits pithala with spring onion and buttermilk.

Ingredients Serving: 3

Buttermilk 1 cup
Gram flour 2 cups
Spring onion with bulbs 1/2 bunch
Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
Oil 1 teaspoon
green chillies 3
Curry leaves 6-7
Tomato 1 (optional)
Ginger Garlic paste 2 teaspoon
Tempering: cumin and mustard seeds, asafotida
Salt to taste

Instructions

Take buttermilk in a vessel and add gram flour to it.
Make a fine paste of gram flour. Add water as required. Add salt at this time to mix it well with flour.
Do not leave any lumps of flour in mixture
Cut spring onion green and bulbs
Heat oil in vessel. Add tempering and curry leaves
Add spring onion bulbs and saute till onions are soft
Make a fine paste on tomato, green chillies and ginger garlic
Add this paste and green spring onion to oil and saute well
Mix turmeric in gram flour mixture
Add gram flour mixture to onion and tomato paste and quickly mix together
Keep on stirring with flame on so as to not form any lumps of flour
As the mixture gets heated, it thickens. Keep on stirring till it forms a lump and flour gets cooked
Once the lump is formed, swich off the flame and cover and let it sit for 5 minutes
Serve warm with bhakari or rice

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