Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chana lentils with bottle gourd. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The Lentil Soup you can serve on its own or with Flat bread or any roll or bun It is basically an Asian curry dish but you can eat it also served on plain. Wash the chana dal/lentils in several changes of wate until water runs clear. Soak for at least an hour.
Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chana lentils with bottle gourd using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd:
- Get 1 cup Chana lentils soaked
- Take 1/2 cup bottle gourd/Lauki chopped
- Get 1 tsp green chilli chopped
- Take 1 tsp ginger finely chopped
- Make ready 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1/4+ 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp gram masala
- Get 1/8 tsp asafoetodia
- Take 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1" cinnamon
- Get 2 cloves
- Get 4-5 whole black pepper
- Get 1 lemon juice
- Make ready 1 pinch sugar
- Get 1 tbsp+ 1tsp clarified butter/desi ghee
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp butter
- Make ready 2 cup Water or as needed
Lauki Chana Dal is a nutritious recipe that combined the Bottle Gourd and lentils making it a perfect dish for a wholesome lunch or dinner. Saute add the drained soaked chana dal, bottle gourd. Add turmeric, red chilly powder, salt, corainder. Laucki chana dal is a healthy main dish and has both vegetable and lentil making a wholesome meal.
Steps to make Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd:
- Take pressure cooker put chana lentils & bottle gourd. Add ginger, green chilli, salt, turmeric powder, gram masala and 2 cup of water. Mix well, close the lid and cook on high flame until one whistle. Turn the flame on medium heat,get three whistle. Turn off the gas. Open the lid after 5 minutes.
- Take a wok heat on medium flame add 1 tbsp desi ghee, combine all ingredients bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cumin seeds, whole black pepper & asafoetodia then it cracked add red chilli powder, tomato and sugar mix well on low flame. Stir continuously and cook until turns in mushy. Add in cooked chana dal. Saute and cook for one minute. Mix butter & turn off the heat.
- Take a tadka pan heat on low flame put one tsp desi ghee add 1/4 red chilli powder stir 10 seconds on heat. Red chilli ghee is ready for garnishing. Turn off the heat.
- Now, pour the Chana lentils in serving bowl. Mix the lemon juice and garnish with red chilli ghee and coriander leaves.
- Delicious ' Chana lentils with bottle gourd ' ready to serve with chapati, tandoori roti or naan. Enjoy!!
Laucki Chana Dal is is a healthful, wholesome lentil and vegetable main dish. Having a low glycemic index, it is especially good for diabetics. Add curry leaves, when the aroma is given off add tomato puree and chopped bottle gourd. Now stir and cook until the oil floats on top. Slit the green chilies length wise and stuff with the tamarind mixture.
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