Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, dhokar dalna(no onion,no garlic). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Authentic Bengali Dhokar Dalna is a very tasty pure veg curry that is made without the use of onions or garlic. This popular veg delicacy is ideal for. Dhokar dalna is a famous bengali veg dish.makeing with yellow split peas or chana dal.first step is making dhoka by frittering chana dal paste and then we.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook dhokar dalna(no onion,no garlic) using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Dhokar Dalna(no onion,no garlic):
- Make ready For making the Dhoka(lentil cakes)
- Take 1 cup Chana dal (split Bengal gram)
- Make ready 1 tbsp ginger
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin paste or powder/jeera paste or powder
- Get 2-3 green chillies
- Prepare 1/2 tsp sugar
- Get To taste Salt
- Make ready 2 tbsp mustard oil
- Get 1/2 tsp asafoetida/ hing powder
- Get For making the gravy
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin /jeera
- Take 1 whole dried red chilli
- Get 1 tbsp ghee
- Make ready 2 small potatoes cuts into cubes
- Prepare 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1 bay leaf/tejpatta
- Get 2 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tomato cuts into cubes
- Get 1 cinnamon
- Prepare 2 cloves
- Get 1 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 2 cardamom
- Make ready 1/2 tsp coriander paste or powder
- Take 1/2 tsp asafoetida powder/ hing powder
- Prepare 1 tsp ghee
- Take As needed Chopped coriander leaves
Dhokar dalna is a signature Bengali vegetarian dish. It is lentil cake made using chana dal which is traditionally fried and simmered in a satvic gravy. Chana dal dhoka oven baked and simmered in a no onion no garlic gravy. This Niramish Dhokar Dalna is a popular Vegetarian no onion, no garlic Bengali dish made with a spiced lentil cake deep fried, simmered in a tomato Though this month's challenge Dhokar Dalna, a Bengali Specialty can't be called a simple dish, it leans relatively closer to something you can make in.
Steps to make Dhokar Dalna(no onion,no garlic):
- To make the dhokas/ lentil cakes- In a bowl,soak Chana dal/split bengal gram) in water overnight.Next Day drain away the water.
- Grind the soaked Chana dal/split Bengal gram with the green chillies to make a fine paste(Add very little water if required to make paste).
- In a pan heat mustard oil, add ginger paste, cumin paste or powder, sugar, salt & asafoetida powder / hing powder & fry for a mint.
- Then add the chana dal paste & keep stirring continuously.Let it cook for 5-10 mints till the dal is done & take it off the flame.Don't allow the dal paste to stick to the pan.
- Now grease a plate with little oil & spread this mixture evenly on the plate in the form of a cake & let it cool down properly.
- The mixture takes the form of a solid cake.Then cut the lentil cake carefully into 2 inch squares.
- Heat mustard oil in a pan,slowly slide these 2 inch lentil squares into the pan & fry both sides carefully.
- Fry them in small batches & drain the excess oil over a paper napkin.
- Steps to make the gravy-Heat mustard oil in a pan for tempering.Add cumin seeds, bay leaf,asafoetida,cinnamon,clove, cardamom & dry red chillies.Add potatoes & fry well.
- Now add chopped tomatoes, ginger paste,cumin paste or powder, coriander paste or powder, red chilli powder, salt,sugar & let the gravy cook well on medium flame till the oil separates.
- Then add water & let the potatoes cooked.Add some garam masala powder & ghee into the gravy.
- Finally add the dhokas or lentil cakes slowly into the gravy making sure they do not break.
- Let the gravy simmer for another 5 mints.
- Turn off the flame & garnish the dish in a serving plate with coriander leaves.
- Serve it hot with steam rice or phulkas.
This recipe is called Dhokar Dalna. Small cakes made of chana dal are first steamed, fried and the simmered in a spicy gravy. It is a perfect item for people who abstain from eating onions and garlic because this dish is purely vegetarian in that sense. This vegetarian recipe can also be consumed. Dhokar Dalna , is one of the pillars of Niramish (Vegetarian) Bengali Cuisine , just like Shukto.
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