Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup besan (gram flour)
- 2 slices of bread (whole wheat bread)
- 1 to 1-1/2 tbsp finely chopped onions
- 1 tbsp finely chopped tomatoes
- 1 green chillies – finely chopped
- 0.38 tbsp finely chopped ginger
- 1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves (cilantro leaves)
- 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tbsp red chilli powder
- Water, add as required to make a batter of medium consistency
- 1 tbsp oil for frying or as required
- Salt as required
Method:
- In a bowl or small pan, take finely chopped onions, tomatoes, ginger, green chillies and coriander leaves.
- Add besan (gram flour), turmeric powder, red chilli powder, asafoetida and salt.
- Add water. Whisk to a medium consistency batter. There should be no lumps in the batter. Don’t make thin batter.
- Heat 1 tbsp. oil in a pan.
- Dip the bread in the batter. With your hands, coat the bread evenly with the batter.
- Also place the chopped onions & tomatoes on the bread slices with your hands. Don’t keep the bread too long in the batter as then the slice breaks.
- Place the batter coated bread slices on the pan.
- When the base is cooked and browned, flip and fry the other side.
- Flip and fry a couple of times to get even browning and cooking.
- Remove and serve them immediately.
- Serve this bread besan toast plain or with mint chutney.