Beetroot Dhokla is truly amazing and I love it more because my son didn't even ask me once about the color for he found it so appealing. What else would a mom want apart from a hassel free feeding and that too when its super healthy. To make Beetroot Dhokla more interesting I used cup cake mould rather than regular steamers and then used hung curd for giving a feel of icing. Infact if you increase the beetroot puree content and add little more hung curd on top your savory cake would blend well with a feel of red velvet cake. For me this Beetroot Dhokla was a successful attempt and I can just keep the puree ready and just use it with even instant dhokla mix incase I am in real hurry for pack my son's tiffin. Its upto you how you make the base of Dhokla but adding beetroot puree just gives a super healthy shot to your food.
Like most of my recipes where focus is healthy and easy , this one hardly takes and time and if you want you can skip hung curd part and just use the normal tempering on the top before you gobble this Beetroot Dhokla straight.
- 1 cup Gram Flour (Besan/Chickpea Flour)
- 1 tablespoon Semolina (rava/sooji), optional
- 1 teaspoon Eno Fruit Salt
- 1 teaspoon crushed Green Chilli-Ginger
- 3/4 cup Water
- 1/4 cup hung curd
- 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
- 6-7 curry leaves
- 2 teaspoon Oil (for greasing and tempering)
- 1/4 tsp asafoetida
- Cup cake moulds
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- Beetroot: 1/2 boiled and pureed
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt, or to taste
- In a bowl mix gram flour, salt, sugar, ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp oil and water and keep it aside.
- Get the steamer ready and add eno and beetroot puree one after the other in the batter.
- Now grease the cup cake/muffin moulds and add the batter in the moulds and steam it.
- While this would take some 10 mins add sugar in the hung curd and keep it seperate.
- After 10 mins switch off the gas and take off the moulds and demould them.
- On top add hung curd as icing and them heat oil and add curry leaves, asafoetida and mustard seeds.
- Add this tempering over the Beetroot Dhokla and serve hot.