Bara/बारा/वो(Lentil Pancake)

Bara

          Bara is a traditional newari snack called as wo(वो) in newar community of Nepal. Call it Nepali lentil pancake or traditional nepali pizza ;).It is prepared out of black lentil paste dough and cooked in a pan, it could be either plain bara, egg bara, meat bara. Traditional bara is made with Black lentil paste dough, whole egg & minced buffalo meat served along with soup.

Ingredients required for preparation:

• Black lentil(mass ko daal) to be soaked over a night: 2 cup
• Minced meat buffalo/chicken: 2 cup
• Egg:4 nos
• Ginger & Garlic paste: 2 tbsp
• Chopped coriander: for garnish
• Chilli powder: 2 tsp
• Oil: to fry
• Salt: For taste.
  

         Method of preparation:

• Traditonal bara is made out of simple and with least no. of ingredients.
• Wash the soaked lentil until most of the outer cover is removed.
• Take a grinder, place the washed lentil in it & add salt, ginger garlic paste, chilli powder.
• Make a fine paste of it, adding few amount of water during grinding is necessary.
• Heat a non-stick fry fan/ tawa, and add oil, ensure oil is circulated around the pan otherwise bara might get sticked while being prepared.
• Add the black lentil paste in the pan and press it with hand or use spatula to form a round and thin pancake(use your hand and often dip it in bowl of water to form a round shape bara)
• Cook it in a medium heat, both the sides to be cooked for coupled of minutes
• Plain bara gets prepared till this step, for egg & meat bara
• While bara is being cooked in bottom side, add minced meat and whole egg in the upper side. chopped coriander could be added for garnish.
• Turn the bara and cook the both sides for couples of minutes.
• Turn off the heat, bara is ready to serve
• Bara is served along with soup/chutney as a snack.

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