Recipe: At Home Instant chana dal halwa

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Recipe: At Home Instant chana dal halwa Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Instant chana dal halwa. Chana Dal Halwa is traditionally cooked by slow roasting chana dal. This is a quicker, simpler and equally delicious take on that recipe.. With new gadgets like the Instant Pot available, I made a few adjustments to the original recipe to save some time, without compromising on flavor!

Yes, I'm talking about the same dal halwa that traditionally takes ages to make on the stovetop.

But there are other dishes that can be made such as Chana Dal Pilaf or Halwa (sweet pudding).

How to cook Chana Dal in Pressure Cooker?

You can have Instant chana dal halwa using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Instant chana dal halwa

  1. You need 1/2 cup of rosted chana(gram) dal.

  2. Prepare 1 cup of water.

  3. It’s 1 1/4 cup of sugar.

  4. Prepare 1/4 cup of desi ghee.

  5. Prepare handful of Pistachio Or your favorite nuts.

Chana Dal takes a bit longer to cook compared to other split lentils such as Toor Dal or Moong Dal.

The Arabic word Halwa (pronounced hull-waa) comes from the root word Hilwa which means sweet.

It is therefore used in connection with most sweets, desserts or candy.

In India though, the word Halwa is used to describe desserts sweets with the consistency of a thick pudding, made from various kinds of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, and lentils.

Instant chana dal halwa instructions

  1. Melt ghee in heavy pan once ghee melt add roasted chana dal fine powder.

  2. Cook ghee and dal powder together for about 5-7 min.

  3. Now add water into it cook till water absorb now add sugar cook till sugar melt.

  4. Pour one tspn ghee on halwa and serve with sprinkle some nuts of your choice..

The flavour of this chana dal halwa is so good you will be loving it for sure.

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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Chana dal, split bengal gram is soaked, roasted well in lots of ghee until aromatic, cooked in milk and added with sugar to make this simple sweet, chana dal halwa.

I was thinking to post something simple and sweet as Holi special recipe, I though first I would try moong dal halwa, but then I saw this one in Tarla dalal and decided to make.