WHEAT GUGRI

Gugri means sundal, usali.  Recently, one of my neighbour, a Marwadi Jain gave me a plate of Wheat and Black chana prepared and said that it is called Gugri.  When I looked at the dish, I felt the same like our sundal.  Then I searched on the net and came to know that it is one and the same.  Only thing that she had prepared  bit mushy.

Then I thought of making the same only with the wheat as we always prepare the sundal with black chana, kabuli chana, horse gram, chana dal etc.

Let us look at the recipe now:

Time taken:  2 days and 45 mts

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

¼ cup wheat

Salt

A pinch of turmeric powder

To grind coarsely:

2 tbsp  coconut grated + 2 tbsp

A small piece of ginger

1 green chilli (if you want more spicy, add more)

¼ tsp cumin seeds.

Tempering:

1 tbsp oil

1 tsp urid dal

1 tsp mustard seeds

2 broken pieces of red chilli

A pinch of hing powder

Few curry leaves

Method:

Wash and soak the wheat for two days.  Change the water after the 1^st day and repeat the same process on the second day also.  Wash thoroughly in the running water.  Pressure cook the same till soft but not mushy with salt and turmeric powder. Drain excess water, if any.

Put 2 tbsp coconut, ginger, cumin seeds, green chilli and grind to a coarse paste.

Heat oil in kadai.  Add the mustard seeds, urid dal, red chilli.  When it is done,  add the curry leaves, hing powder and the cooked wheat.  Stir well.  Add the coarsely ground coconut paste. Mix well.  Garnish with the remaining coconut and serve hot.

How to serve:

This can be served as a snack item or as a side dish with rice, dal, sambar rice, rasam rice, curd rice etc.