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Chana Daal ki Kachree

chana daal kachree

Ingredients

  • - 2 cups: Chana daal (soaked in water for 3-4 hours or overnight)
  • - 1 : Medium size onion (chopped finely)
  • - 1 inch: Ginger (chopped finely)
  • - 7 flakes: Garlic (chopped finely)
  • - 3-4: Green chilly (chopped finely)
  • - 1 bunch: Dhania patta (chopped finely)
  • - Oil for deep frying
  • - Salt

Powder masala

  • - 1 tsp: Red chilly powder
  • - 1 tsp: Dhania powder
  • - 1 tsp: Jeera powder
  • - 1 tsp: Haldi

Method

  • - Wash the soaked daal and grind it into a coarse (very important) paste using little water.
  • - Mix all the ingredients listed above, except oil, to the dal paste.
  • - Make small unevenly round spheres of the daal paste and deep fry it in oil.
  • - Serve with tamarind chutney or rice-daal, or put it in gravy of aalu ki subzi to make aalu kachree ka jhor !