Roasted round dough balls served with mashed vegetable sides.

Litti Chokha

India · South Asia

Short description
This roasted bread-and-vegetable plate is smoky, filling, and built around a dry roasted-gram filling.
Ingredients
Whole-wheat dough balls stuffed with spiced sattu, roasted or baked, then served with mashed eggplant, potato, tomato, herbs, and ghee.
Cultural note
The sattu filling and mashed vegetables make it portable enough for roadside eating yet substantial enough for home meals.
Common misconception
It is not just a plain dough ball; the roasted-gram filling and smoky chokha are essential.

image credit

Litti Chokha.jpg

creator:
Amrita Nityanand Singh
license:
CC BY-SA 4.0
modified:
Copied from Wikimedia Commons, resized, and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.