Recipe: Eating on a Dime Chana dal kadhi

Recipe: Eating on a Dime Chana dal kadhi Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Chana dal kadhi. Chana dal or chana dal curry is a protein rich simple dal (lentil curry) made with split chickpeas popular in India. This recipe is one of the healthy Indian recipes and easy to prepare at home using basic ingredients and spices, which are easily available in kitchen and generally used to prepare routine dishes. A wholesome kadhi that uses cooked chana dal instead of besan.
A wholesome kadhi that is made up from soaked and grinded bengal gram or chana dal.
It tastes entirely different from the known besan ki kadhi.
Learn to make this tasty kadhi with step by step photos and detailed recipe by Renu Srivastava @ lakshmirecipes.
You can have Chana dal kadhi using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chana dal kadhi
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It’s of /2 cup soaked chana dal(spilt Bengal gram).
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Prepare of curd.
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It’s of gram flour.
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It’s of ghee.
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It’s of cumin seeds.
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Prepare of /4 tsp mustard seeds.
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Prepare of /4 tsp fenugreek seeds.
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It’s of /2 tsp turmeric powder.
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It’s of /2 tsp Red chilli powder.
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Prepare of coriander powder.
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Prepare of asafoetida.
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You need of curry leaves.
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You need of bay leave.
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You need of cloves.
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You need of /2 inch cinnamon.
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Prepare of Green chilli finaly chooped.
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Prepare of /2 tsp finely chopped ginger.
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Prepare of For tempering.
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Prepare of ghee.
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It’s of /4 tsp cumin seeds.
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Prepare of /4 tsp red chilli powder.
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Prepare of asafoetida.
Pick and rinse the chana dal well in running water.
Soak the dal in enough water for an hour. · Drain the lentils and add them to the pressure cooker along with turmeric powder.
Keep the cooked chana dal aside.
In this Bengali chana dal recipe, chana dal is first boiled with turmeric powder and then it is tempered with Indian spices like bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves and green cardamom and finally it is mixed with fried coconut, raisins, sugar and ghee.
Chana dal kadhi instructions
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Wash and soak chana dal in enough water in a large bowl for 4-5 hours. Combine the dal and 2 cups of water and add in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for a whistle. Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid..
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Take a kadai and heat it. Add ghee. Add cumin seeds, Asafoetida, mustard seeds and Fenugreek seeds. When the seeds crackle add the bay leave, curry leaves, cinnamon, cloves and sauté. Now add ginger, green chilli and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds..
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Now add cooked dal and cook to 2 to 3 minutes and add turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and salt and mix well and sauté on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes..
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Take a bowl and add curd, 1/4 cup of water and 1tbsp gram flour. Mix it well. Add this curd mix to kadai. Boil it on high flame while stirring continuously. Add little water..
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Then low the flame and cook for 5 minutes. Switch off the gas..
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For tempering: Heat 1 tsp ghee, then add 1/4 tsp cumin, asafetida, then add 1/4 tsp red chilli powder and pour it over the curry..
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Chana Dal Kadhi is ready to be served. Serve with hot chapati..
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This chana dal khichdi is unlike the other Indian khichdi varieties which have a thin or medium porridge-like consistency.
By the way Khichdi is a term used for one-pot dishes that are made with cereals, lentils and vegetables.
In this recipe, the rice grains as well as chana dal lentils are separate and this gives the khichdi a pulav like texture.
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