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Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake)

Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake) is East Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian Vegan Halal Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

  • 1 cup rice, soaked
  • 1/2 cup chana dal, soaked
  • 1 potato, boiled and mashed
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 green chilies
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1/4 tsp turmeric
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 cups mustard oil, for deep frying

How to cook it

  1. Soak the rice and chana dal together for at least 4 hours, then drain.
  2. Grind the rice and dal with the green chilies, ginger, and a little water into a thick, slightly coarse batter, similar to a pakora batter.
  3. Mash in the boiled potato, then stir in the cumin seeds, turmeric, and salt, and let the batter rest for 15 minutes.
  4. Heat the mustard oil for deep frying in a kadai until hot.
  5. Ladle spoonfuls of the batter into the hot oil, flattening each gently into a thick disc, and fry until deep golden and crisp on both sides, about 4 minutes per batch.
  6. Drain on paper towels and serve hot with ghugni or aloo dum.

Serve it with

A East Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
Medium
Protein quality
Partial
Food groups it covers
Grains, Pulses, and Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Dhuska (Fried Rice-Lentil Savory Pancake) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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