Guddi’s “Cheela” Indian Crepes

Name: Guddi's Cheelas
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Ingredients: ¾ cup Sugar; 2 cups Chickpea flour (Besan); 2¼ cups Water; ½ cup Mustard oil

Quick and easy, sweet Indian breakfast crepes made with chickpea flour.

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Servings

4

Ready In:

15 min

Calories:

404

Good For:

Breakfast

Introduction

About this Recipe

Ok, so I don’t personally consider this one healthy nor even “Ayurvedic”; but it most definitely is a very common breakfast food here in Vrindavan and it is very tasty! Just not too healthy.

Just 4 Ingredients

Chickpea flour
Sugar
Water
Oil (for cooking)

And besides, everybody really loves it when Guddi comes to cook and show some of the very traditional foods that have been eaten in Vrindavan for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Nutrition

Tasty, made with love.

You could roll fruit up in the crepes for a quick and portable breakfast.

Fat 4% 4%
Protein 6% 6%
Carbohydrates 85% 85%

Guddi's Cheelas

Crepes, it's what's for breakfast!

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Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: Indian

Keyword: Chila, crepes, pancakes

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 5

Servings:

Calories: 404kcal

Author: Guddi

Ingredients

¾ cup Sugar
2 cups Chickpea flour Besan
2¼ cups Water
½ cup Mustard oil

Instructions

Mix the sugar, flour and water together; mix well. Mix for 5 minutes. Batter will be thin, like a crepe batter.
Let the batter sit for 5 minutes.
Heat a griddle or tawa pan.
Add one tablespoon of the mustard oil and heat to smoking on the griddle.
Add about ⅓ cup of the batter to the heated griddle, and spread it around into a large circle. Use fingers or the back of a spoon to spread the batter thinly and evenly over the surface of the griddle.
Cook for about 1½ minutes on the first side; the edges will looked cooked. Flip the chila over and cook another 1 minute on the other side.
Watch the heat, and adjust so the chilas don't burn.
Keep cooking the chila, one by one, adding a tablespoon of mustard oil each time.

Notes

You could probably treat these just like a crepe and add fruit and heavy cream to them.

Nutrition