Crisp Chickpea Pancake

Garg Obbattu

Ingredients

Maida         250 gm
Semolina        2 spoons
Ghee             4 spoons
Chickpea     100 gm
Jaggery         50 gm
copra            25 gm
cardamom        1 gm

Mix maida, two spoons of semolina and two spoons of ghee with water to make a thick batter that can be rolled into balls.  Leave it aside for 2 hours.

Roast 100 gm chickpea ( not the powder, but bengal gram) in a spoonful of ghee and powder it.

Break jaggery into small pieces, mix with water and boil it for 5 minutes.

Add the roasted chickpea powder and stir continuously.

Add grated copra (dry coconut) and cardamom.

Take the maida batter and make small balls about the size of tennis balls. Flatten them a little,fill the centre with this chickpea-jaggery mix and roll it as a ball again.

Take a plastic sheet, smear it with ghee and flatten this ball in a circular shape. It will look similar to a roti.

Fry it on a flat pan with a little ghee. Roast well on both sides.

This Crisp Chickpea Pancake is tasty and healthy.