Litti (cuisine)

Litti is a snack food found in India's Bihar state; it consists of balls of wheat and sattu (powdered gram or lentil) formed into balls with spices, and then filled with ghee (clarified butter) via a hole. It may be eaten with yogurt, baigan bharta, alu bharta, and papad. The litti are traditionally baked over a cow-dung fire, but in the modern day a wok of boiling oil may be used.

Spices used to flavour the litti include jawain, mangrail, garlic, red pepper, mustard oil, salt, and ginger. In some areas litti is served with chokha, a vegetable preparation of eggplant, tomato, or potato.

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