It is soft in texture, amazing in taste light on your tummy, easy to prepare in few minutes; especially as breakfast. It is popular and authentic recipe none other than wheat chila/cheela, a type of pancake or north Indian Dosa. Whatever the name; I often prepare this recipe when my husband is on business trip and I am alone and lazy. One afternoon I prepared this recipe in brunch, in which I added my home grown bitter gourd leaf, using seasonal and local ingredients is convenient as well as good for health.
You can customize with any other leafy vegetables or grated vegetables. Adding paneer (cottage cheese) is excellent option to increase the nutritional value.
Ingredients:
- Wheat flour/ Aata: 150 gm.
- Bitter gourd leaf: 100 gm
- Onion: 1 no. (Medium size)
- Salt: ½ teaspoon (as per taste)
- Fennel seed: 1 teaspoon
- Ghee (clarified butter)/oil: for roasting
Preparation:
- Chop onion and bitter gourd leaf as fine as possible. Keep aside.
- Take a mixing bowl; put Aata, chopped onion, bitter gourd leaf, salt, and fennel seeds make a smooth batter without any lump. Keep aside.
Method:
- Take a non stick pan; apply one spoon of butter, grease all over.
- Pour ladleful of batter on the centre of the tawa and quickly spread with circular motion.
- Cook from one side, spread 1 teaspoon of ghee on the edges and top. Wait for few minutes, the edges get lifted from the edge, flip it and cook both sides, as shown in the photo.
- Transfer into serving plate ‘Bitter Gourd Leaf Chila (Crepe)’ is ready to serve along with “sweet corn Raita”.
Bitter Gourd(karela) Leaf Chila (Crepe) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.