How to make Chatamari ( Rice Flour Pan Cake)

"Chatamari" or thin pancakes  is another typical Newari dish. This dish is easy to make. Basically, chatamari is made plain and simple from Rice Flour batter, but now a days people like to eat with various toppings like cheese, egg, mince meat, sausages, vegetables, lentils, beans and other . I will teach you to make chatamari both with toppings and without toppings. So, lets get started !!!!!!!!

Utensils

 

Flat non sticky pan( tawa) with lid

Wet cloth

Spatula

A large Bowl

Soup spatula

 

Without Topping ( Plain Chatamari )

 

Ingredients

 

Rice Flour-1 cup

Salt- a pinch ( optional)

Warm water 

1/2tbsp oil

Methods:

Pre cooking

 

Take a cup of rice flour in a large bowl. Then add a warm water slowly to knead for making a nice dough.. Little by little pour some warm water and knead until it forms in a dough. knead for a 5 min.After that, pour another amount of warm water but this time to make a batter of the dough. Use your hand for that.

Make a thin batter or past , thinner then cake paste and add oil. Mix it well.Now, the batter is ready.

 

Cooking part

Take non sticky flat pan or tawa and heat it in medium  flame. Use soup spatula for pouring batter in to pan. Pour the batter in to the  pan in round direction making as thin as sheet. Then cover with a lid.Chatamari is cooked from only one side. Wait for a second until slash sound comes from the vapor inside the lid. Take out chatamari and  serve hot.

You can serve Chatamari with chutney or sauce.

With Toppings

For topping you can take any of the topping as you like but for now I will be taking following ingredients
:

Minced Buff meat/ chicken meat- 150 gram ( kima)
Chopped onion 1/4 cup

Chopped coriender 1/4 cup

Steamed Beans ( black eyed peas)1/4 cups

Green diced chilly ( hariyo khursani) 1tbsp

Garlic-1 teaspoon

Ginger-½ teaspoon

Salt to taste

Egg 1

chilly powder 1/2 tsp

corender and cumin  powder 1tsp

Meat Masala 1tsp

 ginger garlic paste 1/2 tsp

Method

 Take Minced meat in a bowl add salt as per taste, coriander and cumin power, chilly powder and ginger garlic paste and meat masal. Mix it well with hand not spatula. Keep aside for few minut. Within that time take steame bean in a bowl , add some salt as per taste and mix it well.

Make batter as mentioned above in making plain chatamari. Take non sticky flat pan or tawa and heat it in medium  flame. Use soup spatula for pouring batter in to pan. Pour the batter in to the  pan in round direction making as thin as sheet. Put a layer of minched meat, another layer of beans and then sprinkle onion, garlic, ginger, diced chilly and put egg on the top. Sprinkle some salt over the egg .Then cover with a lid.Low the flame and cook for 3-4 minuts.Wait  until slash sound comes from the vapor inside the lid. Take out chatamari cut as pizza and  serve hot.

For extra taste you can add some cheese at last or steam sausages.

This dish also named as Nepali pizza. So, enjoy !!!!