Showing posts with label Black channa gravy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black channa gravy. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Black Channa Gravy

It is one of my favorite & wonderful dish which is very easy to make. It also makes our dinner very great with Roti or Parathas. It can be prepared within 15 mins.

Ingredients
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2 cup Black channa
1 Onion (finely chopped)
1 tsp red chilli
1 tsp coconut
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp mustard seeds
4 nos curry leaves
1 tsp jeera (perungeeragam)
1 cloves
1 cinnamon

1 bay leaf
1 tsp Oil

Instructions
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1. Pressure cook the Black channa dhal until it cooks well. Itz good to add ½ tsp of salt during pressure cooking itself.

2. Heat oil in the pan & add mustard seeds, jeera, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves, curry leaves after they get fried add the finely chopped onions to it ( To cook the onions fastly sprinkle little bit of salt on it).

3. Add two cup of water, half of the cooked black channa dhal , 1tsp of red chilli &
½ tsp of salt to it.

4. Grind the remaining black channa dal with
½ tsp of jeera, coconut & add to the pan. Cook them for 5 min when the Gravy turns thick u can stop it.


Have you tried this? Even if you haven't - let me know what you think!
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One of my friend named Minu Sivamoorthy, who is working in IBM encouraged me to upload this recipe. Here i thank her for the efforts she made for me.