Dal baati churma

Dal baati churma is one of the delicious rajasthani food and my most favourite dish since childhood. I born in rajput family so every spacial occasion there is dal baati churma made. Let’s see what is the history behind the dish so how where did Dal baati churma really originated? Many of believe that the answer lies in the history of the kingdom of mewar.

Baati a little doughballs made of wheat flour and adding ghee. It’s believed to have originate during the time of Bappa Rawal the founder of the kingdom of mewar. Back then the rajputs were establishing their stronghold in the region and baati was their preferred war time meal. Talking about history of rajputs my great grandfather pratap singh rajput use to have huge collection of books on history of Rajput’s their war and struggles but honestly speaking I never had intrest to read those books but my little brother who’s no more little now he was big fan of thos books and use to read one book in 2 to 3 day huss and that was big task for me to read it hahaha fun part.

On war time rajput soldiers would break the dough into chunks and leave it buried under thin layers of sand to bake under the sun. On their return from the battlefield they dig out the perfectly backed baatis then they deep into ghee and consumed with curd made from goat or camel milk. Then years later it developed with the combination of dal baati churma and it became very popular in india.

The dal is simply nutritious mix of five types of lentils – moongdal (green gram), chana dal (hores gram), turdal(red gram) and urad dal(black gram) prepared with a fragrant tempering of cumin cloves , garlic and other spice’s.

Churma a really tasty dessert made out of wheat flour , jaggery , ghee and some nuts. Am not really fan of dessert but I like this one some times. Dal baati churma is whole some nutritious dish and royal history behind it and it became globally popular. Today I made this in my kitchen with the help of microwave and not in hot sand. Talking about its nutritional benefits which very important part became in among all. Its having good amount of protein , complex carbohydrates, good quality of fat and rich in iron , vimatins , minerals. So why to wait to eat this delicious food.

Artical by –

Dt. Snesha AP (clinical dietician and nutritionist)