Besan Basar
Sindhi Recipe - Onion Recipe -Sindhi Kitchen – Besan Basar
Like the potato, onions are also the most consumed vegetable of Sindhi Kitchen and very essential part of sindhi food. Beside the normal use of onion sindhi people are used to prepare many dishes from the onion with combination of several other vegetables and even with fish.
Basically, these food stuffs are known as Seyal Bhaji, which is signatory sindhi vegetable prepared from onion and often named after the other vegetable used like Karela Basar and Bhindi Basar [onion] etc.
Besan Basar is typical Sindhi food and often served with rice or Phulka [Chapatti]. This is easy to cook dish and is typical fragrance of Sindhi Kitchen. At some of Indian cities Besan Basar is called as Kachodi Basar and at few other Besan Ji Aani. Similarly at some place fried Besan Tiki is used and at another place non fried. Usually Besan Tiki is made in round or oval shape but few like rectangular shape.
Sindhi Vegetable Recipe - Besan Basar Ingredients
For Tikiyun: Besan [gram flour], Khaskhas, Jero, red chili powder, Salt and some water.
Other Ingredients: green coriander leaves [chopped], green Chilies [chopped], oil Sliced onions, tomato chopped and sliced, turmeric powder, coriander powder.
Sindhi Vegetable Recipe - Besan Basar Cooking Process
Took the ingredients for Tikyoon and mix them well to get homogeneous mixture.
Take a small quantity of mixture and shape either circled or rectangular.
Fry these with few drops of oil on Tava (Iron plate) till getting brown.
Took the sliced onion and tomato in cooking vessel add turmeric & coriander powder.
Fried Tikyoon, salt to taste do remember there is salt in Tikyoon also.
Allow to cook on medium flame till onion get cooked and Tikyoon become soft.
A few people add Tikyoon only after half cooking of onion.
Decorate with chopped green coriander leaves and serve hot.