Toasted Chickpea Flour Curry with Sorghum Flatbread

Zunka Bhaakar

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in

By Raghavan Iyer

Published 2008

  • About

Just about every street in Mumbai has a booth selling Zunka bhaakar, a Maharashtrian peasant food—very filling, nutritious, and quick to prepare. The velvety texture of this curry can be an acquired taste, especially for those who find the consistency of baby food a challenge. I do think that the sliced onion and chiles in the curry balance out the smoothness, providing a contrast in textures. If you don’t wish to make the bhaakar, use a store-purchased whole-wheat tortilla as