Name: Habisa Dalma recipe by Alka Jena at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 Cup Moong Dal; 1 banana raw ( Plantain) - chopped into small pieces; 2 green chilies; 1 inch ginger - grated; 1 tsp cumin seeds dry roasted and powdered; Salt to taste; 1 tbsp ghee; 1 tsp black pepper roasted and powdered

Ingredients Serving: 4

1 Cup Moong Dal
1 banana raw ( Plantain) - chopped into small pieces
2 green chilies
1 inch ginger - grated
1 tsp cumin seeds dry roasted and powdered
Salt to taste
1 tbsp ghee
1 tsp black pepper roasted and powdered

Instructions

Take a pan and heat it. Add the mung dal and dry roast it until it starts changing color (at very low heat). Remove from heat and soak the dal for 30mts.
Though in the traditional Habisa dalma, it is not roasted. But since my family loves the roasted one, I have gone for it.If you are not roasting the dal, then do not soak, just wash and cook.
Wash and cut vegetables. Take a heavy bottomed pan, add the dal, salt, Arbis and 3 times the water and let it boil. Once the dal looks a little bit cooked, then add the Plantains and in the last add Aau( Elephant apple).
This dal cooks very fast, so watch out for the duration.Once everything is cooked, adjust salt to taste and add the grated ginger in it. (No Turmeric is added to this dal) .Switch off the gas and keep aside to prepare the tempering.
Take another pan, add the ghee and let it get hot. Add the cumin seeds, slitted green chilies, and pour the mixture on the dal.
Add some dry roasted and powdered cumin seeds and pepper and mix well in the dal. Your Habisa dal is ready.
Serve hot.

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