Bengali Style Cholar Dal

Name: Bengali Style Cholar Dal
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 2 people
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 Cup chana Dal; 1 tsp ghee; 1/2 cup coconut, chopped; 1 sticks cinnamon; 1 Bay Leaf; 1 Clove; 1/4 cup raisins; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 1/2 cups water; 1 pinch sugar; 1 tsp ghee; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 2 Bay leaves; 2 Cloves; 1 Cinnamon sticks; 4 Cardamom; 2 Whole red chilli

Sarita Srivastava @cook_26934677

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This delicious lentil dish cooked with Bengal gram or chana dal, this dish of dal is flavored with coconut, ghee and an assortment of whole spices. Bengali Style chana dal tastes mildly spicy and packed with nutrition since it is a helpful source of zinc, folate, calcium, protein and is low in fat content

Sarita Srivastava @cook_26934677

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Ingredients

20 minutes

2 people

1 Cupchana Dal
1 tspghee
1/2 cupcoconut, chopped
1 stickscinnamon
1Bay Leaf
1Clove
1/4 cupraisins
1/2 tspturmeric
1/2 tspsalt
2 1/2 cupswater
1 pinchsugar
For Tadka
1 tspghee
1 tspcumin seeds
2Bay leaves
2Cloves
1Cinnamon sticks
4Cardamom
2Whole red chilli

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Soak a cup of chana dal for about ten minutes.Take ghee in a pan and add chopped coconut to it.Pan fry coconut till golden brown.Bengali Style Chana Dal.Take soaked chana dal in a pressure cooker.Add cinnamon, clove, bay leaf, raisins, fried coconut, turmeric, salt and sugar to the cooker.Mix thoroughly and add water.pressure cook it.
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Prepare Tadka:Take ghee in a pan,add cumin seeds,bay leaves,cloves, cinnamon,cardamom and red chilli whole.Saute them thoroughly with the ghee.Pour it over the cooked dal in the pressure cooker. Mix well.Serve the Bengali Style Chana Dal hot with garnishing of chopped and fried coconut.