Sattu namkeen sharbat, summer cooler drink sattu

  Hi friends, hope you all are doing great. Summer started and summer holidays will start soon. How are enjoying your holidays?? I am very busy with my son Putta/ Riddhesh. Coming to today's recipe, I am sharing healthy and protein rich summer drink from Bihar UP. Sattu is nothing but a flour prepared by roasted black chickpeas or roasted gram , now a days we can get this flour easily in market. I prepared this flour by frying rosted chana for 2 to 3 minutes and then grinding to fine powder. Sattu is also prepared by adding different varieties of pulses. As many of you know hubby works in Railway as Loco pilot, he has many Bihari friends. He use to taste and hear about many Bihari recipes. I first tasted this sattu namakeen sharbat when we are in Odisha. Odisha is such a place where I learnt and came to know many North Indian varieties of food. Let's get into our recipe... 

I am planning to share this recipes video in YouTube, hope I get sometime to come back to my channel 😄. We can also prepare sweet version of this drink will share that recipe soon. We can prepare many recipes using sattu like ladoos, dosa/chilla, roti, poori, litti etc. Recently hubby tasted his  Bihari colleagues bought sattu litti chokka, now he is asking me to prepare 😄. As I am taking care of my kid alone, I am not getting much time to cook, eat nd sleep properly, so I just said "okay - will cook soon" to hubby 😄😆.  Coming to health benefits of having this sattu drink :

* acts as cooling agent and protects from sun stroke 

* gives instant energy

* rich in proteins, iron, fiber,calcium and etc.. 

* good for digestion

* good for hair and skin and many more. 

Event : Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge

Taking this healthy summer drink to "Shhhhh Secretly cooking challenge" fb group started by Priya, and taken further till date by Mayuri di ND Renu. We completed recipes from all states from A to Z, so now admin team and members decided a new interesting way for monthly theme that is - one group member in alphabetical order will suggest theme. Later admin team will pair interested members, then we share 2 secret ingredients among us and prepare recipe using it and all other members will guess it.

                                                     This month theme  "summer drinks" suggested by Sasmita, do check out her summer drink - sabja lemonade. This month I am paired with Renu, she gave cumin powder and lemon as secret ingredients. In turn I gave coconut and coriander leaves as secret ingredients. Renu prepared solkadhi,  it's healthy and tasty coconut kokum drink. Do check her space for more tasty  recipes. 

      Sattu namkeen sharbat

Preparation time : 10 minutes  

Serves : 2 persons 

Category : Beverages      

Recipe Cuisine: Northern India

Main ingredients : roasted black chickpeas

Ingredients

roasted black chickpeas - 1/2 cup

finely chopped onions - 2 tsp

finely chopped green chillies - 1 tsp

finely chopped coriander leaves - 1 tsp

Cumin powder - 1 tsp

Lemon juice - 3 tsp

Salt - as per taste

Cold water - 2 to 2.5 glasses

Instructions 

1) Dry fry roasted black chickpeas for 2 to 3 minutes and let it cool to room temperature. 

2) Now finely grind the above fried roasted black chickpeas with its husk till you get fine powder and take it into clean and dry jar. 

3) Add 2 tsp of prepared sattu in a bowl, also add finely chopped onions, green chillies, coriander leaves, cumin powder, salt and 2 to 2.5 cups of cold or normal water. 

4) lastly add 2 tsp of lemon juice to the above. 

5) Now mix all the ingredients using spoon or churner. 

That's it our sattu namkeen sharbat is ready to serve. 

Note:

* Frying roasted black chickpeas is optional. 

* you can use store bought sattu. 

* you can also add, chaat masala and black salt. 

Enjoy your hot summer with this healthy and tasty saatu namkeen sharbat with your friends and family. Hope you liked this recipe, 

leave your feedback in comment box. Will meet you soon with another interesting recipe. 

Yours, 

Aruna Saras Chandra 😊