Home made Khamman Dhokla

Today is Sunday and I woke up before everybody else. So I had a little bit of time to sit and decide what will be for breakfast. And better than that I had some time for waiting for the batter to get ready.
Do today's breakfast is Khamman Dhokla without Eno- the fruit salt most of the dhokla recipes call for.

Khaman Dhokla wihout Eno (Steam cooked spiced chickpea cake)
Ingredients:

1. 11/2 cup chick pea flour (besan)
2. 1/2 cup warm water
3. 1/4 cup well beaten plain yogurt
4. 2 teaspoons sugar
5. 1 teaspoon salt
6. 1/2 teaspoon each of citric acid, baking soda, turmeric
7. 1 tablespoon oil + oil for applying to the pan
8. 1 tablespoon fineley chopped cilantro and 1 green chillie finely chopped

For tempering:

1. 1 tablespoon oil
2. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, urad dal, mustard seeds, asafoetida (hing)
3. 2 dried red chillies broken
4. few curry leaves

Mix the besan with sugar, salt, citric acid and baking soda. Add the well beaten yogurt and warm water and mix well until the batter is the consistency of pancake batter. Set it aside for 20 minutes. Add the chillies and cilantro and turmeric and mix well.

Boil some water in a wide pan. Put a base plate like a small plate or an omelette rind. Apply some oil to an 8 inch pie pan. When the water boils put the pan inside the big pan with boiling water and add the batter. Cover it and simmer for 25 minutes.

In a pan heat the oil and add the items for tempering. When they start to splutter add the hing and add this oil to the dhokla which has been overturned onto a plate. Cut it into cubes and enjoy