Recipe of the Day, Week No. 122: (Traditional chana dal recipe)"

Assalam o Alaikum

Introduction

I'm @cinderella1. I hope you all feeling good. And hoping that you all also trying your best. I'm also absolutely well and trying to do my best. Today I am going to share with you all a recipe of chana dal in unique and different Punjabi style. It's traditional recipe of Punjab. It very simple but unique recipe. So let's start.

Material required for recipe

step 01: boiling chana dal

First of all, l lit the fire in clay stove. Then I took a saucepan. Then I added half kg water into it. The was about to boiling.I added dal into the boiling water. When the dal was boiled well. I took off saucepan from the stove. Then I took out boiled chana dal from saucepan. I boiled dal as I need. And did not boil much

step 02: frying onion 🧅

Then I took another saucepan. Now I Added half cup of cooking oil into the saucepan . I waited till the cooking oil warm. During this l cut the onion in a little thicker pieces. So when the cooking oil got hot then I added the thicker chopped onion into hot oil. I stirred the spoon into frying onion till they turned light brown.

step 03: add ginger garlic paste

I fried onions light brown and now it was time to add ginger garlic paste. So l crushed the a medium piece of ginger and some stove of garlic. Now l also crushed seven to eight green chilies .When the all things paste was ready. I added it into fried onions. When the paste of ginger garlic was fry with onion. I added some water in it.

Then I took a medium size of tomato and cut it into smal pieces. Then I added this these pieces of tomato into it. During this the fire was slow. So l kept some woods under the clay stove. Now the flame 🔥 was high. So the ginger garlic paste and tomato, both things were firy well.

step 04: add spices

Now it was time to add spices. So l took one teaspoon crushed red chilies, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon termeric power and one teaspoon of dry coriander powder in a clay plate. Then I added these all spices in it. Dry coriander powde is a megical power. It is used in Punjab for making foods fragrant. Now I lit the fire slow so that all spices fry well. I also added some drops of water again.

step 05: adding dal

When all the spices had fried good and it was smelling amazing then I added boiled chana dal into it. I did not stir spoon much because the dal was boiled now and if I stirred spoon much the boiled chana dal was break so I left the dal at low flame and waited two minutes 🔥.

Now I added half cup of water into it. Then I added some green coriander into it. Now the
Chana dal was completely ready. It was smelling great. And the final look was so presentable.

Final presentation

Tandoori roties

In Punjab village's, it is very much liked to eat tandoori roties with chana dal and lasee. So l did not skip this step. On the other hand I am a phatan and phatans like tandoori roties very much. Phatan added some amount of butter into dough so that the roti soft and tasty.

tandoori roties recipe are as follows:

step 01:

First of all , I kneaded dough and added two teaspoon butter into it. When the dough was ready. Then I put some small pieces of woods and kindling into tandoor. Then I lit fire. And let it to heat up. When the tandoor got heat.

Then I divided the dough into equal dough balls. I did not made big balls of dough infect l made small size.

And the dough balls were beautiful. Now I rolled a dough ball with my hands.And put it in tandoor. Now I was waiting for cooking roti and looking into tandoor sitting nearly.

step 02:

When the roties was cooked,l wrapped a cloth around my hand and took out roti from tandoor. Then roties were looking so soft. And the taste was amazing.

Enjoying

When the tandoori roties were ready. I took a tray and cover with a colorful cloth and keep a roti on it and ready chana dal also. Now it was the time of test. My Mama took a bite and said, yammi Cinderella.My other family members also eat it well and appreciated me very much for such a tasty dal. I enjoyed . I felt very happy. I learnt many things from this traditional dish.