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Chana Daal Fry Recipe, How to Make Chana Daal

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Chana dal 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 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 daal is simmered for some time so it will absorb the flavours. Lemon juice or some tamarind juice is added in the ready daal for sourness.

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3.15 from 7 votes

Chana Daal Fry (Bengal Gram Fry)

Chana dal fry - Split bengal gram cooked in  tomato sauce and Indian spices.
Prep Time5 mins
Cook Time15 mins
Total Time20 mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: North Indian Cuisine, Punjabi Cuisine
Keyword: chana daal, Dal
Servings: 4 people

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 Clarified Butter / Desi Ghee
  • 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.
  • 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

Comments

  5. maha says

    wow…u done this perfectly. n the pics r very clean n cool.iam sure u n ur family enjoyed allot…
    Maha

  7. Hema says

    Dal looks awesome and the lunch spread, can I stop by your place, looks so inviting..

  10. Meena says

    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