Lauki chana dal sabji recipe
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2
 
Lauki chana dal sabji - Step by step recipe of lauki chana dal curry aka ghia chana dal sabzi.
Ingredients
  • Lauki (Bottle gourd / Doodhi / Ghiya): 2 cups, diced
  • Chana dal (Split Bengal gram): 1/2 cup
  • Tomato chopped: 1/2 cup
  • Water: 1/2 cup for cooking
  • Garlic: 1 tbsp, finely chopped
  • Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
  • Oil: 2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds (sabut jeera): 1/2 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds (rai): 1/2 tbsp
  • Asafoetida (hing): 1/4 tsp
  • Red chilli powder: 1 tbsp
  • Coriander powder: 1/2 tbsp
  • Fresh coriander leaves: 2 tsp, chopped
  • Salt: to taste
Instructions
  1. Soak the Chana dal in 1 cup of water for 1 hour.
  2. Cut the lauki into small square pieces.
  3. Now heat the oil in the presser cooker and add mustard seeds and let it crackle then add cumin seeds, Asafoetida and garlic finely chopped stir it for few second and add tomato chopped and mix it. let tomato cooks little.
  4. Add soaked chana dal and lauki
  5. Add all the masala like turmeric powder, red chilli powder, coriander powder and salt to the taste and stir it.
  6. Add some water and close the presser cooker and cook till 2-3 whistles in medium flame
  7. Now open the presser cooker if there is lots to liquid in the sabzi the cook the sabzi without the lid for some time, sabzi or curry should be of medium consistency.
  8. Now take the sabzi in the serving bowl and sprinkle the chopped coriander leaves on top.
  9. Can serve the lauki chana dal sabzi with roti, phulkas or paratha .
Recipe by WeRecipes at https://werecipes.com/lauki-chana-dal-sabzi-recipe/