Pithla holds a special place in Maharashtra's culinary heritage, often enjoyed with hot steamed rice or bhakri, and it's renowned for its simplicity and taste 👌The key ingredient, gram flour, not only lends a rich, creamy texture but also packs a punch of protein, making it a wholesome meal choice 🙌 Ingredients: 1 cup besan (bengal gram flour) 1 ½ cups water 2 tbsp oil 1 tbsp crushed garlic (lehsun) 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera) 1 tbsp roughly chopped green chillies 4 curry leaves (kadi patta) 1

Though I come from a Maharashtrian family, I grew up eating rice for all my meals. I don’t know if it has to do with my roots being in Goa (native) or if it was just my tastebuds that refused to accept chapati. Don’t get me wrong, my mom makes best and softest chapatis ever. So there would always be both rice and chapati at home, but I would somehow always reach out for rice. It would particularly get tricky when I was invited at someone’s home. I would secretly slide chapatis or even puris to m