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Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha

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Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers

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Fara /peetha is staple street food of uttarpradesh. Fara is the steamed lentil stuffed dumplings. It is very yummy in taste . I have made it by using whole wheat flour . There are two ways to making faras . You can either steam them in a steamer or boil them in salty water like pasta . I have used boiling method .
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Served AsBreakfast, Snacks
CuisineIndian
Servings 5
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Ingredients
  

  • For dough -1 cup whole wheat flour
  • Salt
  • Water as required
  • For stuffing- 1 cup chana dal soaked for 4 hours
  • Ginger 1 inch small piece
  • 2-3 nos. Garlic cloves
  • 2 nos. small green chilies
  • 1 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
  • 1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
  • Salt
  • 1/4 cup chopped coriander leaves
  • For tempering- 1 tbsp oil
  • 5-6 nos. Curry leaves
  • 2 teaspoon cumin seed
  • 1 teaspoon sesame seeds
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Instructions
 

  • First for dough - in a big bowl take whole wheat flour , add salt and mix well . Now make a soft dough by using water . Cover it and keep this aside.
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • For stuffing - take soaked chana dal . Wash and drain it .
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • Now in a grinder take chana dal , add garlic cloves , ginger , cumin seeds and green chilies and grind it coarsely.
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • Now in this coarse grind dal ,add coriander leaves , garam masala powder , turmeric powder and salt as per taste and mix well . Stuffing is ready .
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • Now take dough and make equal small lemon size balls with it. Now take a ball and roll it with roller pins and make disk .Take 1 tbsp dal stuffing and put on this disk.
  • Now fold this disk and make semi circle . Repeat this process with remaining dough . Faras are ready to boil .
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • Now in a wide kadai add water . When water starts boiling add salt and 1 tsp oil . Now add faras into this and cook until they starts coming up.
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers
  • Now take out these boiled faras and let it cool down . Now cut them in to small pieces .
  • For tempering- in a pan add 2 tsp oil , add cumin seeds and sesame seeds . When seeds starts crackle then add curry leaves . Now add faras and cook for about 7_8 minutes . Faras are ready to serve . Serve hot with green or red chutney .
    Whole Wheat Flour Fara /Peetha - Plattershare - Recipes, food stories and food lovers

Notes

You can change your stuffing by using other lentils like urad  dal . You can make outer shell with rice flour too . 
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