Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, louki chana dal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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.
Louki chana dal is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Louki chana dal is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook louki chana dal using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Louki chana dal:
- Make ready 2 cups Chana daal
- Get 1 cup louki
- Take 1/2 turmeric powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
- Prepare 2 Green Chilli
- Make ready 1 tsp Hing
- Get 1/2 tsp Garam masala
- Prepare 1 tsp kasuri methi
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Get 4 tbsp oil
It is unbelievably easy to make and jam-packed with authentic flavors. I am sure lauki-haters will also love this curry. At home, we call it "dudhi chana dal nu shaak" in Gujarati. You will get a medium spicy curry made from bottle gourd, bengal gram, tomatoes, and few spices.
Instructions to make Louki chana dal:
- Wash and soak chana dal for 2 hours. Heat a cooker add water dubble to chana dal. Add chana dal, turmeric powder and salt. Turn off the gas when 7 to 8 whistle come.
- Then take a pan. Add oil some oil, then cumin seeds, onion, tomato, green chilli, louki cubes, hing and mix it all up and soute well.
- Then add turmeric powder coriander powder garam masala kasuri methi. Cook all the spices well. Then mix the daal. Then allow the daal to boil well.
- Then serve hot by adding green coriander to it.
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. Chana dal (Bengal Gram) is one of the famous dals cooked in every Punjabi household.
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