Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chana dal with lauki. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chana dal with lauki is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chana dal with lauki is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chana dal with lauki using 17 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chana dal with lauki:
- Make ready 1 cup soaked (3-4hrs)chana dal
- Get 1 small size lauki cut into small pieces
- Prepare 1 large onion chopped
- Make ready 1 tbsp ginger paste
- Prepare 1 tbsp garlic paste
- Get 1 tsp green chilli paste
- Make ready 2 medium sized tomatoes chopped
- Make ready 1 tsp Haldi
- Get 1.5 tsp red chilli pow
- Prepare 1 tbsp coriander pow
- Prepare 1.5 tsp cumin pow
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Make ready For tempering
- Get 2 whole dry red chilli
- Prepare 1 tsp jeera
- Make ready 1/2 tsp hing
- Make ready Mustard oil for cooking (choice)
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!
Steps to make Chana dal with lauki:
- In a pressure cooker add 3 tbsp mustard oil.When the oil gets heated add everything mentioned under tempering.Add onion and fry till light pink in colour followed by ginger garlic paste and dry pow cook fr 3-4 min.Add 2 tbsp water so the masala won’t get burn.
- Add the tomatoes and cook till it mix with the masala and becomes mushy. Drain the Chana dal and add to the masala cook fr about 8-10 min add salt and lauki again cook fr 5-7 min till it start sticking from the bottom add 2 cups of water and put the whistle 4 whistle 2 on high flame and 2 on low.Open the lid add 2 tbsp ghee (optional)and chopped coriander.Serve
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. Chana dal (Bengal Gram) is one of the famous dals cooked in every Punjabi household.
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