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Vrat dish, illustrative
Volume II · 12.01

Kuttu–Lauki Soft Cheela

Serves
4
Portion
2 cheelas
Time
20 min
Texture
Soft
Season
All year
Dosha
  • Vata
  • Pitta
  • Kapha

Warming

Ingredients

What you need

Ingredients for 4 servings
DoneIngredientHousehold measureQuantity (4 servings)Café batch ×5
Buckwheat (kuttu) flour1 cup120 g600 g
Bottle gourd (lauki)grated150 g750 g
Potato1 small, boiled, mashed80 g400 g
Ginger, fresh1½ tsp8 g40 g
Cumin (jeera)¼ tsp1 g5 g
Rock salt (sendha namak)½ tsp rock salt3 g15 g
Water½ cup120 ml600 ml
Ghee (cow)for cooking16 g80 g

Method

How to cook it

  1. Step 1: Mix all except ghee into a thick batter (potato binds).

  2. Step 2: Spread on a tawa; cook covered with ghee 2 minutes per side on low.

Nutrition

Per serving, estimated

162kcal
Energy
4.6g
Protein
5.1g
Fat
26.4g
Carbohydrate
3.7g
Fibre
0.8g
Salt

Where the energy comes from

Protein and carbohydrate × 4 kcal/g, fat × 9 kcal/g

Estimated from IFCT 2017 / USDA composition tables; not for clinical use.

Variations & further ideas