Chana daal fry -Split bengal gram cooked in tomato sauce and Indian spices.
Chana daal is a very healthy and delicious lentil preparation. It is quite easy to make and goes well with rice, poori and roti’s. The chana daal should be soaked before cooking so it will not take much time and cook fast.
You can pressure the soaked chana daal or cook it in a pan. The cooked daal is added in a tomato gravy and few basic spices are added in the daal. Then the dal is simmered for some time so it will absorb the flavors. Lemon juice or some tamarind juice is added in the ready daal for sourness.
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Chana Daal Fry | Bengal Gram Fry
Chana dal fry - Split bengal gram cooked in tomato sauce and Indian spices.
Servings: 4 people
Calories: 261kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup Bengal gram /chana daal
- 1 tbsp Yellow Moong Daal
- 1 Tomatoes / Tamatar
- 2 Green Chillies / Hari Mirch
- 1 tsp Ginger / Adrak Chopped
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder / Haldi Powder
- 1/2 tsp Red Chilli powder / Laal mirch powder
- 2 tsp Tamarind / Imli pulp
- 1/4 tsp Garam Masala Powder
- 1 tsp Salt / Namak
- 2 tbsp Ghee or cooking oil
- 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Sabut Jeera
- 1/4 tsp Asafoetida / Hing powder
- 3 Whole red chilies
Instructions
- Wash and soak both daal for 15 minutes
- Pressure cook with turmeric and 1.5 cup water for 3 whistles or till cooked well
- Heat oil in a pan add cumin, whole chillies and asafoetida, then add chopped green chillies and tomatoes.
- Leach the tomatoes before using for kidney patients.(slice and soak tomato in water for few hours and then discard that liquid)
- Add salt and cover and cook till soft.
- Now add chilli powder, boiled daal, ginger, tamarind paste and 1 cup of water.
- Simmer for 5 minutes then add garam masala and fresh coriander.
- Serve hot.
Notes
Serving suggestions-
- serve with, pakwan, poori, paratha or as a side dish. This is also served with Sindhi dish-daal pakwan.
- Instead of tamarind you can use lemon juice or mango powder
Nutrition
Calories: 261kcal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 666mg | Potassium: 215mg | Fiber: 14g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 530IU | Vitamin C: 54mg | Calcium: 95mg | Iron: 3mg



Sobha Shyam
yummy platter..chana dal fry looks delicious 🙂
Vimitha Anand
My type of comfort food… Looks nice
radha
That plate looks so good! As does the dal!
Jay
yummy flavors…looks wonderful..;)
Tasty Appetite
maha
wow…u done this perfectly. n the pics r very clean n cool.iam sure u n ur family enjoyed allot…
Maha
Julie
Beautiful platter & so tempting!!
Erivum Puliyum
Hema
Dal looks awesome and the lunch spread, can I stop by your place, looks so inviting..
Kalpana Sareesh
Yummy dhal and tempting meal..
Jaleela
yummy combo
Meena
wow dal looks so yummy. it looks like the dal my mom used to make
for dal pakwan we made this dal at times. and i liked ur presentation. it looks so tempting and inviting
Kanan
Dal fry looks great. nice recipe
faseela
yummy daal fry….awesome recipe…