Pithla (पिठल) -- a quick-fix maharashtrian side-dish

A simple recipe, with few ingredients and cooked in minutes -- Pithla is a side, you can make when you are out of vegetables (or anytime). Usually, it is served with "bhakris" -- which are flat-breads made of jowar(sorghum) or bajra(pearl millet) flours. You can make it liquidy like a soup or a dal, or slightly thickened !! Whatever way you make it, it tastes great.

Ingredients:

• 1 and half cup besan flour (chick pea flour)
  
• 2 cups of water
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1/4 tsp asafoetida
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 green chilies
• 1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 4-5 garlic flakes
• some curry leaves
• 1 tsp each of mustard and cumin seeds
• 1 tsp each of cumin and coriander powder
• 1-2 tsp oil

Recipe:

• Take besan flour in a bowl. Add turmeric and salt to it and mix it well.
• Slowly add water and with a help of a spoon or a cake whisk mix the flour and water well, to get a batter of pouring consistency.

• Also, make the batter lump free. Keep it aside.

• Heat oil in a pan. Add cumin and mustard seeds. Let them crackle then add asafoetida and chopped garlic and chilies and the curry leaves.

• Add onions, and stir till they are translucent. 

• Add tomatoes. Cook for 2-3 minutes.

• Add the besan batter slowly, and keep stirring with the spoon/wooden spatula. Keep the heat to medium-low.

• Keep stirring and cooking, till the batter thickens a bit. (About 3-5 minutes)

• At this point, you can add more water to make it thinner or take it off the flame.
• Serve hot, with chapati or bhakris.

Quantity:

• 5-6 servings
• I have served it with hot chapatis and radish raita. 

Notes:

• I didn't add garlic, while making this(at the time of taking pictures), as I didn't have it. But, I feel it is the important part of the dish. So do not skip it.
• Also, you can add dried red chili instead of green chilies. I have chopped the chili lengthwise,  you can chop them finely (and increase in numbers) to make it spicier. 
• Add, more water if you want it to be of a liquid (daal like) consistency.