Rava Dhokla - Semolina Dhokla - Savory Semolina Cake - Microwave Dhokla

Rava Dhokla

Ingredients:
1 cup fine semolina
1 Cup water
1 Cup yogurt
2 TSP fruit salt / Eno
2 TSP oil
1 TSP or less Salt or to taste
2-3 green chillies finely chopped
1 TSP grated ginger / ginger paste
1/4 TSP Carom seeds(Owa)
1/2 TSP Turmeric powder
For Tadaka and garnishing: Mustard seeds,cumin seeds,curry leaves,coriander leaves finely chopped


Procedure:

1. Take Semolina in a Bowl. Add Oil and Carom seeds to it. Mix well and remove lumps if any.
2. Add Yogurt and water and whisk well. Mix all the ingredients well.Add salt,turmeric,ginger paste,chopped green chillies to it.
3. Keep aside this mixture for 20 min.
4. I tried making Dhokla on steam and in Microwave both. The steam version becomes much much soft and looks healthy. Although microwave takes very less time as compared to Steam.So if you want to try it in Microwave, grease a microwaveable box with oil and keep it ready. Or, in a pan, keep water to boil and grease the pan to be used.
5. After 20 min,add Fruit salt ( ENO) to the mixture and mix well immediately.Mixture will foam up.
6. Pour the mixture in the Pan/trey keeping it half empty so that it will have space to puff up.
7. In microwave cook it for 2 minutes 40 sec. Remove and insert a fork or knife and check if the batter is not sticky. If so, keep for another 10-20 Seconds more.
8. If you are steaming it, keep it for 13 minutes inside steamer or pressure cooker(without having the whistle on it). It depends on the heat and time you keep it for, so it took 13 minutes for me,if you feel the batter is still not cooked keep for couple of minutes more.But with this quantity, it should cook within 13 minutes, if the water was boiling when you keep the trey inside.
9. Once cooled down, cut into required sized square pieces.
10. Prepare Tadaka in a frying pan. Pour 2 TSP oil. Once heated, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds,curry leaves, Sesame seeds to it.  Pour the pieces in frying pan. Add chopped coriander leaves. Mix gently so that the oil tempering gets applied to all the pieces properly.

Serve with Tamerind or pudina Chutney.

A healthier substitute for Gram flour Dhokla. It becomes very spongy and as soft as gram flour Dhokla. :-)