Sabudana Thalipeeth: Navratri Spcl Recipe

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During Navratri most people observe fast for a few days or for all the nine days. During the fast they can eat only certain things. These food items include buckwheat flour, sabudana or sago, special kind of vrat rice etc. Of these sabudana is a versatile item which can be made into a number of dishes. It is highly nutritive and easy to digest as well. More than anything else, dishes made out of sabudana taste simply delicious.

Sabudana thalipeeth is a very common recipe for fasting in northern part of India and Maharashtra. The dough is similar to that of sabudana vada but the end result is very different. This can be made with very less oil on a non stick pan. Here is the recipe.

Serves: 3
Preparation time: 8 hours
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• Sabudana- 1 cup
  
• Potato- ½ cup (boiled, peeled and grated)
  
• Coriander- 2tbsp (chopped)
  
• Salt to taste (use sendha namak if making for fasting)
  
• Green chili- 1 (chopped)
  
• Peanuts- ¼ cup ( Roasted, skin removed and ground to a coarse powder)
  
• Lemon juice- 1tsp
  
• Singhade ka atta- ¼ cup
• Oil for frying

Method

1. Wash sabudana and soak it in ½ cup water for 6-8 hours.
2. Mix soaked sabudana with all the remaining ingredients in a bowl to make a dough.
3. Grease a plastic sheet and keep a small portion of the dough on it.
4. Cover with another greased plastic sheet.
5. Spread the dough into a thin circle.
6. Heat a non stick pan and transfer the circle on to it carefully. If transferring is difficult, you can directly make the circle on the pan using wet hands.
7. Pour little oil from the sides and cook till brown spots appear on both the sides.
8. Serve hot with coriander chutney or aloo ki sabzi.