Kanyachi Bhakri

Kanyachi Bhakri is an authentic Goan homemade breakfast. It is a flat bread – coarse rice flour or suji rava, onion and scrapped coconut are the main ingredients in it. It has a thickness like uttappam. It is best enjoyed with a cup of coffee.

Measurement: 1 Cup = 180 ml
Makes: 5 Bhakris

Ingredients:

1. Onion (chopped) – 4 to 5 medium
2. Rice flour – 3 cups
3. Scrapped coconut – 1 cup or as per your requirement
4. Green chillies (chopped) – 3 to 4
5. Corriander leaves (chopped) – handful
6. Cumin powder – 1 tsp
7. Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
8. Turmeric powder – 1/3 tsp
9. Salt to taste
10. Water – 3 cups and a bowl for dipping fingers
11. Vanaspati ghee for frying

Procedure:

• Take a mixing bowl and combine ingredients numbering 1 to 9 and mix well. Slowly add water and make a semi solid dough. Rest it for 10 min.
• Divide the dough into 5 balls of equal size.
• Heat a skillet and grease it with a teaspoon of ghee.
• Take a bowl of water and dip your fingers in it. Now, take one ball of dough and place it on the skillet and press it gently giving it round shape. Make use of water for pressing it conveniently. Don’t make it thin, it has a thickness.
• Pour ghee around the edges and fry it on low flame.
• Turn over and again pour ghee around the edges and fry.
• Repeat the procedure for remaining balls.
• Serve hot. Accompaniments are not necessary, but you may top it up with butter and pickle or dry garlic chutney may be served.