Chana Dal Tadka
Chana Dal Tadka

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chana dal tadka. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chana Dal Tadka is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chana Dal Tadka is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chana dal tadka using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chana Dal Tadka:
  1. Take 1 Cup Chana Dal
  2. Take 2 Tomatoes
  3. Prepare 2 Dry red chillies
  4. Prepare 2 Green Chillies
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp Ghee
  6. Make ready 5 Curry leaves
  7. Get 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
  8. Prepare 2 tbsp Fresh coriander
  9. Make ready 1 tsp Red chilli powder
  10. Get 1 tsp ginger paste
  11. Take 1/4 tsp Garam masala
  12. Get As per taste Salt
Instructions to make Chana Dal Tadka:
  1. Wash the Chana Dal throughly with water and then soak them for 3 to 4 hours in water.
  2. Finely chop the tomatoes and keep them aside. Remove the stalk of the green chillies and cut them length wise into 2 pieces.
  3. Heat a pressure cooker and add the soaked chana dal, 1.5 cups of water, salt and turmeric powder and cover the lid and cook the dal until a whistle is released. Then reduce the flame to low and cook the dal for 5 minutes more. Later, turn off the flame and let the pressure escape.
  4. Meanwhile, prepare the masala of the dal. For this, heat a pan with 1 tbsp of ghee. When it melts, add cumin seeds, asafoetida, remaining turmeric powder, coriander powder, ginger paste, green chillies and dry red chilli in the wok and saute till the masala for a while. Keep the flame on low so that the masala doesn't burn.
  5. Then add the tomatoes and red chilli powder in the pan. Mix everything properly and cook the masala untill the ghee starts separating from its edges then add red chilli powder as per taste.
  6. After a while when the ghee separates from the masala and the pressure of the cooker releases. Then open the cooker and add the dal in the masala followed by 1/2 cup of water, garam masala and green coriander. Mix throughly then cover and cook the dal for 4 to 5 minutes on low flame. Add water to make desired consistency of dal.
  7. 5 minutes later, dal will be ready, turn off the flame and transfer it in a bowl.
  8. Garnish this delectable and luscious chana dal with some ghee and green coriander and serve it steaming hot along with chapatti, parantha, naan or rice.

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