Dhokla with green chutney

Nailed it! This took quite a few attempts to get right, but it was worth the effort. My mum introduced me to dhokla after she enjoyed it with her ex-colleague Dipa; mum reckoned herself such an expert after trying it that she became my harshest critic! These are light as air, sweet-and-sour squares, fashioned out of nutritious gram flour, then steamed and spiked with a tempering of green chillies and mustard. I still don’t have a proper Asian steamer – either a Chinese bamboo one or the Ind