Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lauki chana dal. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lauki chana dal recipe with step by step photos - a tasty and healthy gravy recipe made with bottle gourd (opo squash) and bengal gram (chana dal or split chickpea). This Punjabi lauki chana dal curry is an easy and quick recipe and goes very well with roti or phulkas. This recipe is made quite often at home.
Lauki chana dal is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Lauki chana dal is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook lauki chana dal using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lauki chana dal:
- Make ready 1 cup chana dal / bengal gram
- Take 100 gm bottle gourd/ lauki
- Prepare 2 tbsp oil/ghee
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1 black cardamom
- Take 1 inch cinnamon stick
- Make ready 1 onion
- Take 1 tsp grated ginger
- Make ready 1 tomato
- Make ready as required Salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Take as required Water
Therefore, such pressure cooker recipes like Dal Makhani, Veg Pulao, Rajma Masala, Punjabi Lobia Masala are my keepers. Also, today's recipe of Lauki Chana Dal or dudhi chana dal is also a hit on that list of keepers. Out of most of the Indian sabzis, this dal happens to be a rejuvenating curry. Firstly, it has the earthy flavors of Bengal gram.
Instructions to make Lauki chana dal:
- Soak and keep chana dal for an hour.
- In a pressure cooker,take oil and add bay leaf,black cardamom and cinnamon stick.
- Add chopped onion and saute it till brown.
- Add grated ginger and saute for a minute. add chopped tomato and saute again.
- Add salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder,red chilli powder and garam masala powder and saute till tomato is soft.
- Peel and chop bottle gourd and add it to the pressure cooker along with the dal.
- Saute it for 1-2 mins and then add water to make as much gravy as required.
- Pressure cook for 2 whistles and then on low flame for 10 minutes. Serve hot with rice and potatoes.
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. Lauki is also known as Doodhi or Giya and one of my favorite dishes while growing up. In the South, we make Kootu with the Lauki that was cooked along with lentils and coconut. When I got married I noticed many similarities with this dish and Kootu. Lauki chana dal - this is one of my favorite recipes!
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