Mumbri - bharth

Name: Mumbri - bharth
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 cup coarse rice flour; 1/4 cup semolina (add to fine rice flour coarse is not available; 1/3 cup coconut; 2 tbsp fresh cream or ghee; 1/4 cup milk; to taste Salt; as required Water; 2 big banana leaves; For bharth; 1 big purple round brinjal; 1 tbsp oil; 1/4 cup coconut; 3-4 green chillies; 1 small piece of tamarind; 1 pinch hing; to taste Salt

Soumya Pai @cook_16636605

Bangalore

Mumbri bharth translates to coarse rice flour roti in banana leaf and fire roasted brinjals chutney!

This is a traditional dish that #grandma used to make and I still make it often. It's a favorite at home!

Mumbri bharth translates to coarse rice flour roti in banana leaf and fire roasted brinjals chutney!

This is a traditional dish that #grandma used to make and I still make it often. It's a favorite at home!

Soumya Pai @cook_16636605

Bangalore

Mumbri bharth translates to coarse rice flour roti in banana leaf and fire roasted brinjals chutney!

This is a traditional dish that #grandma used to make and I still make it often. It's a favorite at home!

Mumbri bharth translates to coarse rice flour roti in banana leaf and fire roasted brinjals chutney!

This is a traditional dish that #grandma used to make and I still make it often. It's a favorite at home!

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Ingredients

1 cupcoarse rice flour
1/4 cupsemolina (add to fine rice flour coarse is not available
1/3 cupcoconut
2 tbspfresh cream or ghee
1/4 cupmilk
to tasteSalt
as requiredWater
2big banana leaves
For bharth
1big purple round brinjal
1 tbspoil
1/4 cupcoconut
3-4green chillies
1small piece of tamarind
1 pinchhing
to tasteSalt

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Steps

1

Mix the flour along with the coconut cream/ghee.
2

Add enough water to get a semi-thick batter.
3

Clean the banana leaves, wipe them dry and cut into 6" squares.
4

Take a fist full of batter and spread in on one leaf on the greener side and pat to form a roti or around 2 mm thickness.
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Cover it with another leaf.
6

Put this whole roti with the leaves on a hot tava.
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Fry till the leaf is brownish and you can get a nice smell.
8

Remove the leaf and fry the roti on the tava till it is cooked.
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Serve hot.
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For the bharth -
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Coat a big cleaned brinjals with oil and keep it to roast directly on the flame
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Keep turning such that all the sides are charred and cooked.
13

Once it cools peel the skin and mash the brinjal.
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Fry the green chillies in a little bit of oil.
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Add the coconut fried green chillies salt tamarind to a mixer and grind to a chutney consistency.
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Add this paste to the mashed brinjals and mix well.
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Serve hot mumbri with bharth and enjoy this traditional cuisine!