Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, chana lentils with bottle gourd. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lauki Chana Dal is the perfect one-pot meal to give you the wholesomeness of bottle gourd and lentils. As summer peaks it gets harder to spend time in the kitchen. But also, Mother Nature makes sure we stay hydrated by flooding us with the best summer bounty.

Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chana lentils with bottle gourd using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd:

1. Take 1 cup Chana lentils soaked
2. Make ready 1/2 cup bottle gourd/Lauki chopped
3. Prepare 1 tsp green chilli chopped
4. Take 1 tsp ginger finely chopped
5. Make ready 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
6. Get to taste Salt
7. Get 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
8. Get 1/4+ 1/4 tsp red chilli powder
9. Take 1/4 tsp gram masala
10. Prepare 1/8 tsp asafoetodia
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
12. Take 1 bay leaf
13. Make ready 1" cinnamon
14. Get 2 cloves
15. Get 4-5 whole black pepper
16. Make ready 1 lemon juice
17. Prepare 1 pinch sugar
18. Take 1 tbsp+ 1tsp clarified butter/desi ghee
19. Get 1/2 tbsp butter
20. Get 2 cup Water or as needed

Lauki chana dal is bottle gourd cooked with split chickpea lentils in a very tasty, thick tomato gravy. Paired with roti (Indian bread) or plain rice, it is a simple and healthy meal that can be made easily on a weekday in your instant pot. Lauki Chana Dal is a Punjabi style Lentil curry with a vegetable that pairs perfectly with roti, poori, and rice. This is a popular lentil dish that is so humble yet delicious.

Instructions to make Chana lentils with Bottle Gourd:

1. Take pressure cooker put chana lentils & bottle gourd. Add ginger, green chilli, salt, turmeric powder, gram masala and 2 cup of water. Mix well, close the lid and cook on high flame until one whistle. Turn the flame on medium heat,get three whistle. Turn off the gas. Open the lid after 5 minutes.
2. Take a wok heat on medium flame add 1 tbsp desi ghee, combine all ingredients bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cumin seeds, whole black pepper & asafoetodia then it cracked add red chilli powder, tomato and sugar mix well on low flame. Stir continuously and cook until turns in mushy. Add in cooked chana dal. Saute and cook for one minute. Mix butter & turn off the heat.
3. Take a tadka pan heat on low flame put one tsp desi ghee add 1/4 red chilli powder stir 10 seconds on heat. Red chilli ghee is ready for garnishing. Turn off the heat.
4. Now, pour the Chana lentils in serving bowl. Mix the lemon juice and garnish with red chilli ghee and coriander leaves.
5. Delicious ' Chana lentils with bottle gourd ' ready to serve with chapati, tandoori roti or naan. Enjoy!!

Moreover, this lauki chana dal is also versatile. Dudhi Chana Ni Dal is also prepared a lot in Gujarati homes. Add some water if it is very thick. In a separate pan, heat the ghee, add the red chillies; Add the chopped onions and sauté until deep golden brown. Lauki Chana Dal is a nutritious recipe that combined the Bottle Gourd and lentils making it a perfect dish for a wholesome lunch or dinner.

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