Chilla recipe | Besan chilla | How to prepare besan cheela
Chilla recipe | Besan chilla | Veg omelette | How to prepare chilla with detailed step by step photos. Chilla is a breakfast recipe and its prepared using besan, onion and tomato and also know as veg omelette. This recipe doesn't required any pre-preparation. Chilla has many variations today i will share the basic chilla which i make regularly at home.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Besan / Gram flour / Kadalai maavu
- 1/2 tsp Chili powder ( optional )
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric
- Salt as per taste
- 1/4 tsp Ajwain / omam
- 1 medium onion
- 1 medium Tomato
- 1 Carrot grated ( optional )
- 1 Green chilli
- small Grated ginger
- few Coriander leaves
- 1/2 cup Water
- Oil
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl take 1 cup besan and add Chili powder, Turmeric, ajwain and salt and mix it
- Now add Grated carrot, chopped tomato, chopped onion, green chili coriander leaves
- Now add water slowly and mix it to thick batter ( it should be in pour able consistency)
- Heat a tawa, now take a laddle full of batter and pour it and spread it quickly
- Now drizzle some oil
- Flip the chilla and cook the cheela on both the sides and remove it from tawa
- Serve it with chutney
Notes
You can skip chili powder in this recipe
Batter should be thick in pourable consistency
You can also many veggies like grated cabbage, chopped capsicum and carrot
If you have time soak the batter for 15 -30 minutes before adding veggies