Dal Nawabi

Dal Nawabi

Ingredients

Split black gram lentil (urad dhuli dal) 1 cup
Bengal gram (chana dal) ½ cup
Red Kidney Beans (rajma) 2 table spoon
Garlic (lahsun) cloves 4-5 pieces
Ginger (adrak) 1″ piece
Onion (pyaj) 1 medium
Tomato (tamatar) finely chopped ½ cup
Green chilli (hari mirch) finely chopped 1 tea spoon
Turmeric (haldi) powder ½ tea spoon
Black pepper  (kali mirch) powder ½ tea spoon
Red chilli (lal mirch) powder ½ tea spoon
Cumin (jeera) seeds ½ tea spoon
Sugar (chini) 1 tea spoon
Salt (namak) to taste
Curd (dahi) 2 table spoon
Cream (malai) ½ cup
Clarified butter (ghee) 3-4 table

For Garnishing

Coriander leaves (hara dhania) 2 table spoon
Cottage cheese (paneer) cubed 1 tea spoon

Instructions

  1. Soak split Black Gram (dhuli urad), Bengal Gram (chana dal), and Kidney Beans (rajma) in a container for 6-7 hours.
  2. Take ginger, garlic and onions in a grinder jar and blend it to a smooth paste.
  3. Boil soaked lentils (dal) in a pressure cooker with 1.5 cups of water, turmeric and salt until it is cooked properly and then remove it from flame.
  4. Heat ghee in a pan and fry cottage cheese and then take them out and keep aside for garnishing.
  5. In the same ghee crackle cumin seeds and fry onion mixture paste until it turns pink.
  6. Then add tomatoes and green chillies and cook till oil gets separated.
  7. Then add curd and cream stir continuously for 5-7 minutes.
  8. Now add red chili powder, black pepper powder, sugar and cook it for a minute.
  9. Lastly add boiled lentil (dal) and adjust salt. Let it simmer on medium heat for 15- 20 minutes.
  10. Finish it with adding fried cottage cheese pieces and simmer it for 5 minutes.
  11. Then remove it from the flame and garnish with cream and coriander and serve hot.

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