Gujarati Handwa Recipe

Handwa Recipe:

Ingredients :

* Rice flour 1kg
* Bengal gram flour 500gm
* Black gram flour 25gm
* Buttermilk 100ml
* Bottle gourd 500ml
* Oil 250gm
* Mustard seeds 5gm
* Asafoetida 8gm
* Masala
* Green chillies 25gm
* Onions 50gm
* Cinnamon, cardamoms and cloves 8gm
* Turmeric 8gm
* Coriander 40gm
* Salt to taste

Method :

* Grind masala to a fine paste. Mix the three types of flour with buttermilk, add more water to make a pouring consistency.
* Add masala and peeled and grated bottle gourd to the mixture.
* Heat oil in a thick pan. When hot, add mustard seeds and asafoetida.
* When the mustard seeds crackle, pour the oil in the mixture.
* Mix well and leave it for about 12hours to ferment.
* Pour into shallow ovenproof containers and bake the mixture for about 40minutes.
* Serve with green chutney.