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Dhokar Dalna

Jul-24-2015
Pranav Shah
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Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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ABOUT Dhokar Dalna RECIPE

A favorite dish in the bengali household made with lentil cakes cooked in spicy curry

Recipe Tags

  • Veg
  • West Bengal
  • Main Dish

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. bengal split gram 1 cup (chana dal)
  2. salt to taste
  3. Oil 4 tbsp
  4. green chillies 3 (chopped)
  5. yoghurt 1 tbsp
  6. coriander powder 1/4 tsp
  7. turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
  8. garam masala 1 tsp
  9. Large potatoes 2 (peeled)
  10. ginger 1 inch pieces (chopped)
  11. cumin seeds 1/2 tsp
  12. ginger garlic paste 1 tsp

Instructions

  1. Soak the lentils overnight in three cups of water. Grind the lentil, with salt, ginger and garlic paste, chopped green chillies in a grinder to make it a granular, almost coarse paste
  2. Heat oil to smoking in a wok and fry the lentil paste until it becomes golden brown in colour. Spread this mixture over a greased plate and cut into diamond shapes
  3. Heat oil to smoking in the wok again, and fry the potatoes. Add garam masala, cumin seeds, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, ginger, turmeric powder and saute for 5 mins.
  4. Add yoghurt and salt and mix well. Add a bit of water to make it a gravy
  5. Add the fried lentil cakes into the gravy, cover and cook for 8 mins over low flame
  6. Serve it hot, garnished with few coriander sprigs.

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Vijayalakshmi Ramakrishnan
Jul-22-2017
Vijayalakshmi Ramakrishnan   Jul-22-2017

Shall I use this for rice

Ayatakshi Tikader
Oct-31-2016
Ayatakshi Tikader   Oct-31-2016

good

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