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Basanti pulao & dhokar dalna both are very delicious & authentic dish of Bengal.Dhoka is actually a lentil cake, traditionally prepared its gravy without onion & garlic.Basanti pulao is a very popular dish of Bengal, which we usually make in Durgapuja.It taste sweet & must be light yellow in colour.
Would love to try this.
For pulao wash the rice & drain the excess water.
Now spread the rice on a large plate & let it dry for 15 to 20 minutes.
After that add salt, turmeric powder, ghee,garam masala in rice & leave the marinated rice for 30 minutes.
Heat ghee & fry raisin & cashew nuts in it for few minutes.Take out from pan.
Add crushed ginger, green cardamom, cloves & cinnamon stick.Saute it for a while.
Add marinated rice now.Add salt & sugar & mix it well.
If rice is 2 cup then add 4cup of water, simmer it & cook it in low flame with lid.
After few minutes add fried cashew & raisin.
When the rice will cooked properly open the lid & add extra ghee.
Stand the pulao for extra 10 minutes & then serve.
For Dhoka, soak the chana daal for at least 2 hour & then coarsely grind it with salt, green chilli & ginger.Don't make smooth paste.
Add turmeric powder, asafoetida & garam masala in the paste.
Heat oil, add panch foron masala in it & let it crackle.
Add lentil paste & cook it to make dry.
Brush oil in a plate, pour the cooked daal paste over the dish almost an inch depth.
After 5 minutes cut the dhoka in diamond shape.
Heat oil & fry dhoka in medium flame till it turns golden brown.Take out from oil.
Fry potato cubes in same oil & then take out.
Add dry red chilli,bay leaves,cumin seeds & hing.Saute it for few seconds.
Make a mixture of turmeric powder, red chilli powder,kashmiri red chilli powder, salt,garam masala & asafoetida with water.Mix it to oil.
Now add fried potato & 2 cup of hot water.Covet it & let it cook to boil potato.
After that carefully add dhoka or lentil cake in it.Adjust salt & sugar & cook it for another 5 minutes.
Add ghee & garam masala & switch off the flame.
Serve hot with yellow sweet basanti pulao.
Gurugram, India
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