Recipe: Delicious Greenpeas chana dal

Recipe: Delicious Greenpeas chana dal Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Greenpeas chana dal. Mattar Dal Amti/ Split Green Peas Cooked in Maharashtrian way. Then there are sweets like puran poli (flat bread made with sweet chana dal stuffing), sheera( semonlina pudding) , Ukadiche Modak (Steamed dumplings with coconut-jaggery stuffing), Kadbu (Sweet puffs), Karanji , Rava laddu etc.. Spicy Peas, touch of spices added to sweetness from peas and sourness from lemon makes this a great snack or a side dish.

Split pigeon peas or Toor Dal (Cajanus cajan) split-desi chickpea or Chana Dal (Cicer arietinum) and split yellow peas or Matar Dal (Pisum sativum) are commonly referred to as split yellow peas, although they belong to different species in the bean family leguminosae (Fabaceae).

North, South, East or West, every Indian kitchen is stocked up with chana dal.

It is used as the main ingredient in dishes like dal and vada, and also used for tempering and in the preparation of masalas.

You can have Greenpeas chana dal using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Greenpeas chana dal

1. It’s 1/2 cup of chana dal.

2. Prepare 1 cup of green peas.

3. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.

4. Prepare 2 of red chilli.

5. You need 2 of bay leaves.

6. You need 1 tsp of ginger paste.

7. You need 1 tsp of coriander powder.

8. Prepare 1/2 tsp of cumin powder.

9. It’s 1 tsp of chilli powder.

10. You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.

11. Prepare 1/2 tsp of garam masala.

12. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.

13. Prepare 1/2 tsp of sugar.

14. You need 1 of chopped tomato.

15. You need 1 tbsp of ghee.

16. Prepare 1/4 cup of chopped coriander.

In regions of South India, it is also used to make payasam and other sweet treats.

Dal is often translated as "lentils" but actually refers to a split version of a number of lentils, peas, chickpeas (chana), kidney beans and so on.

If a pulse is split into half, it is a dal.

For example, split mung beans are mung dal.

Greenpeas chana dal instructions

1. Wash and soak dal for 1 hour. Pressure cook the dal..

2. Heat oil, add cumin, bay leaves ana chilli..

3. Add green peas,chopped tomato and cook for 2 minutes..

4. Add ginger paste and all the masala. Cook the masala till oil separated from the side..

5. Add boiled dal and cook for another 5 minutes..

6. Add ghee and chopped coriander. Dal curry is for serve with roti or paratha etc..

A stew or soup made with any kind of pulses, whole or split, is known as dal.

Chick peas are 'chic' peas, ….

Chana dal are 'poor man's peas (lowly daal) that too cut into two halves from it's centres and thereby, resembles only a 'not so chic' trampled version… Pricewise, chick peas are twice as that of chana dal, once agai.

Dhaba Style Dal Fry is a perfect dal when you want to have something spicy yet simple.

The creamy dal fry consists of five different kind of dals like Toor Dal,Moong Dal, Urad Dal, Masoor Dal and Channa Dal.