This recipe can be made on the days, you do not have many vegetables. I had one tomato, some onions/ginger/garlic and frozen peas and I had my dry ingredients like rice/flour,etc. You can make a complete meal out of these ingredients. I chose to make the delicious and popular Rajasthani "Daal Baati" (balls of wheat dough, boiled and baked to be eaten with panchmel dal--a lentil soup made with 5 different varieties of lentils). I also made matar pulav (peas pilaf/rice) to make a complete meal. I am writing the recipes in separate posts, but "dal" and "baati" are served together, though "dal" can be eaten with just plain rice or flat-breads, etc.
I went through the internet recipes, and baatis are either deep-fried, or baked, or boiled and baked. I have tried the baked version before, so I wanted to try the boiled and baked version. Out of both methods, the boiled baati turns out softer like a bread roll with a firm crust and the baked baati is like a biscuit. However, the baked baati requires more fat(oil/ghee) than the boiled one. Both versions are tasty, but here I will post the low-fat recipe. It is adapted from the popular youtube videos of Showmethecurry series of Hetal and Anuja.
