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Chana dal with coconut recipe | bengal gram and coconut curry | how to make chana dal with coconut

Chana dal with coconut recipe | bengal gram and coconut curry | how to make chana dal with coconut

blessmyfoodbypayal
Made without onion and garlic, this Chana dal with coconut recipe is a comfort food which pleases everyone.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

FOR BOILING CHANA DAL

  • 1.5 Cup Chana Dal/bengal gram/split chickpea lentil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp fennel seeds
  • 1 tsp ginger paste
  • 4 cup water

FOR ROASTING COCONUT

  • 1 Cup fresh coconut grated
  • 1 tsp Oil unflavoured
  • 1 tbsp butter non dairy

FOR COOKING DAL

  • Daal recently boiled
  • Coconut recently roasted
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 green chillies
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • 2 Tomatoes grated
  • 1 tsp red chilli powder
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 2 tsp fennel powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp coriander leaves

Instructions
 

BOILING DAL

  • Wash dal and put in pressure cooker.
  • Add water, salt, fennel seeds ginger & oil.
  • Let the dal cook for 5 whistles.

ROASTING COCONUT

  • Take a pan and add oil & butter in it. Let butter melt.
  • Add coconut and roast it on low flame.
  • In 3 to 4 minutes, coconut will turn slightly golden. Remove from heat and keep aside.

COOKING DAL

  • Add oil in a pan. As we are using mustard oil, so it needs to be smoked first. You may take any oil you use in your regular cooking.
  • Add bay leaf, green chillies and cumin seeds and let them splutter.
  • Add tomatoes and salt. Keep yourself aware that you had added salt in pressure cooker too.
  • Cover the kadai with a lid and let tomatoes cook.
  • Add red chilli powder, turmeric and fennel powder. Mix.
  • Transfer dal from pressure cooker to kadai.
  • Also add roasted coconut over the dal. Mix.
  • Lastly add garam masala and coriander leaves.
  • Chana dal with coconut is ready.
  • Serve hot with rice or roti.

Notes

1. Oil is added in pressure cooker while boiling chana dal for a reason. It's a very useful kitchen tip that if you add oil while pressure cooking any ingredient which has the tendency to release water in bulk out of cooker, that is prevented. Chana dal always release much water out of pressure cooker through whistle exit. Add oil and see the results.
2. While roasting coconut, oil and butter is added. Actually butter gets burnt very easily and immediately, so to prevent the butter from burning, little addition of oil prior to adding butter is always helpful.
Keyword bengal gram, chana dal, coconut