Masala Chana Dal with Lauki Combination

Masala Chana Dal with Lauki Combination is a very healthy food as chana dal is a very good source of protein, cobohydrate, Vitamin B, Folic Acid and several minerals and Lauki (doodhi/ ghia) is also have several nutritious values. So lets take a look on this healthy and tasty recepie…

Serves for 3

Ingredients :

1 cup chana dal

1  medium size lauki

2 tbl spn oil

1 medium onion (finely chopped)

1 tbl  ginger garlic paste

1 tomato (finely chopped)

½ tbl cumin seeds (jeera)

1 pinch of hing

2 Whole Red Chilles

½ tbl turmeric powder

½ tbl coriander powder

½ tbl Garam Masala Powder

½ tbl Dry Mango powder

Salt according to taste

Few chopped cilantro (hara dhania)

Method:

Wash dal with water and soak for 1 hour

Peel and Chopped lauki (small  pieces)

After one hour of soaking put the soaked dal in cooker with lauki and water. And put the cooker on heat for cooking

After  1 whistle move away the cooker from heat and put a deep fry pan on heat

Heat the oil in pan and add jeera, red whole chilles and hing when jeera and chillies crackers

Add chopped onion and sauté it after that add ginger garlic paste to it when it goes light brown  add coriander powder, turmeric powder and garam masala and sauté for ½ min

Add tomatoes in it and sauté until it goes some soft

Now Add already cooked chana dal to fry pan and cooked it for 10 minutes

Garnish with Hara Dhania

Enjoy this healthy and tasty lauki chana with Roti or Chawal.