Dal Baati

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Dal & Baati commonly known as Dal-Baati are one of the very well kown dishes of Malwa region.

Dal is basically prepared from tuvaar dal. Tuvaar dal is first boiled in pressure cooker and after that it is prepared for the tadka. First the oil is heated in the frying pan and then rai-jeera are sprinkled into it then put green meshed chilli and garlic then all spices including salt, hing, red chilli, haldi, coriander, ginger and many more spices are mixed into it. And finally we put the boiled tuvaar daItalic textal into this paste.

Baati is basically made up of wheat powder commonly known as aata. First we mesh wheat powder with little bit of salt and water. Then we prepare tennis ball size round balls of this mixture and put it in well heated cow dung cake. After it get brown colour its been taken out and stuffed in Ghee.

This Dal-Baati is then served with Rava Ladoo, rice, pudina chaatni,kari(green mango)chaatni, green saalid with excess of onion and fresh curd milk(chass).

There is one more variation of Dal-Baati commonly known as Dal-Bafla of Malwa.