She doesn’t make the dough from chickpea flour, instead she cooks the flour with water and makes it like a roux. She then pours it in a flat container and allows it to cool down. Once it is cooled down, she cuts rough bite size squares of it and fries it crispy. It’s this crispy chickpea flour bites which appeals me more. It’s rustic, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. It would easy pull off as a snack bite with your tea or coffee.
These crunchy chickpea flour bites are then stir fried with some onion and spices to turn into a sabzi! It’s dry and doesn’t have a lot of gravy. Every time she visits us or we visit them, this is one of the dishes Arvind would always request. Whenever she prepares the dish, it looks so easy and effortless. But getting that chickpea roux correct is so tricky. You have to constantly stir the batter so it doesn’t get lumpy and that was not easy for me. I failed several times! We can never replicate the exact taste of mom’s recipes. They have some kind of magic in their hand but I am glad to be able at least make it tasty enough.
