Makes about 10-12.
Mix all the vegetables and cilantro with the chickpea flour. Add some water and bring it to the consistency of pancake batter. Add the red chili powder, turmeric, cumin and salt. Leave sit for a few minutes. Heat a non-stick pan or a cast iron pan, add a teaspoon of oil and spread all over. Over medium heat, pour the batter and spread it into a round pancake shape. Drizzle a teaspoon oil around the batter. Cook until lightly browned on both sides.
They changed for dinner. In those days //
no one was in a hurry, it was real time //
every time. Usually the streets were saddled with fog //
at night. In the daytime it mostly blew away. //
We kept on living because we knew how. //
Maple seeds like paperclips skittered in the allees. //
We knew not how many enthusiasts climbed the slope, //
nor how long they took. It was, in the words of one, //
"beholding" not to know. We eased by.
-- John Ashbery, "Tension in the Rocks"
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