North Indian
Besan Toast (Chickpea Batter Toast)
Besan Toast (Chickpea Batter Toast) is North 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.
Ingredients
- 8 bread slices
- 1 cup besan (chickpea flour)
- 1 onion
- 1 tomato
- 2 green chilies
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp red chili powder
- 1/2 tsp carom seeds (ajwain)
- 3/4 cup water
- 4 tbsp neutral oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Whisk the besan with the water, turmeric, red chili powder, carom seeds, and salt into a thick spreadable batter.
- Stir in the finely chopped onion, tomato, green chilies, and cilantro.
- Spread a generous layer of the batter over each bread slice.
- Heat a little oil on a griddle over medium and place the slices batter side down, then cook until golden and crisp.
- Flip, drizzle a little oil, and toast the other side until golden, then cut and serve hot.
Serve it with
A North Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Besan Toast (Chickpea Batter Toast), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Besan Toast (Chickpea Batter Toast) carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Masala Omelette |
| 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
Besan Toast (Chickpea Batter Toast) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on bread, chickpea flour, and onion.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from North India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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