Litti Chokha is the staple food from the state of Bihar in India. It consists of a wheat covering filled with sattu and spices. It can be fried or slow roasted on coals. It is served with chokha, which is made from roasted eggplant or boiled potato.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 1 hour
Servings: 14 pieces
Difficulty: Medium
Ingredients for Chokha
Ingredients for Litti Cover
Ingredients for Litti Filling
Chana Sattu
1/2 cup
Kala Namak
1/2 tsp
Red Onion
1/4 cup chopped
Green Chillies
2
Fresh Coriander Leaves
1/8 cup chopped
Salt
1/4 tsp
Vegetable Oil
1/2 tbsp
Ajwain (carom seeds) 1/2 tsp
Grated Ginger
1 tsp
Achar Powder
1 tsp
Lime Juice
1 tsp
Masala from a sour achar
1 tsp
Method
Mix wheat flour, ghee, baking powder, ajwain, salt and knead a hard dough. Keep aside.
Mix all the ingredients of the filling. The filling should be of bread crumb consistency. Keep aside.
Grill eggplant, tomato, onion and green chillies. Boil potato.
Peel eggplant, tomato and potato.
Crush them all together with carom seeds, achar masala, chopped coriander leaves, and salt.
Squeeze a lemon on the vegetables.
Mix everything properly. Chokha is ready.
Make 14 balls out of the dough.
Spread it like a bowl and fill it with a tbsp of filling.
Close the ball. Make sure that filling is covered from all sides and there are no holes in the ball. Repeat with other balls.
Heat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and bake the littis till they are brown from all sides.
Spread a little ghee on litti and they are ready.
Serve Litti Chokha, while still warm.
Another variation is to roll the ball like thick roti and cook it like a parantha.
Notes
If you are not used to mustard oil cooking, add no mustard oil in the Chokha because it can be really strong.
You can even add some oil in the dough. That will make Litti a little more flaky.
Recipe Name
Litti Chokha
Author Name
Ruchi Garg
Published On
2025-08-02
Total Time
1H10M
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