Chana Dal Curry / Bachelor Curry
No Vegetable Curry / Chana Dal Curry
Bachelor Curry
Chana Dal curry / no-vegetable curry is an age old dish of Andhra Pradesh made all over the state with little variations in every region.
Today we will be preparing a basic Chana dal curry, this is not any typical dal or some spicy wet curry, all you need is soaked Chana dal, onion, salt, chili powder and some tempering. With only few ingredients we are going to make the best side dish for rice, jeera rice and phulka. And not to mention this is one of my parent’s favorite curry.
We call this as no vegetable curry because all the ingredients required for this recipe are the most basic grocery items present in an Indian kitchen, there is no need to buy anything special for this recipe and onions are a staple grocery in the kitchen and are stored in bulk all over the year, so the fact that it is a vegetable never strikes us 🙂 . So lets start preparing this no vegetable curry 😀
Written Recipe for Chana Dal Curry
Chana Dal Curry
Equipment
- pressure cooker
- Pan
Ingredients
- 3/4 Cup Chana Dal / Bengal gram
- 1.5 Cups Hot Water for soaking chana dal
- 1 Large Onion finely chopped
- 1.5 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- 1 Tsp mixed seasonings (mustard seeds, cumin seeds and split urad dal) for tempering
- 1/2 Tsp Red chili powder
- Salt as per taste
- 2-3 stems coriander optional
Instructions
- In a cup add chana dal, hot water and let soak for 3 hours or overnight.
- Take the soaked chana dal, drain off excess water and keep aside
- Now place a pan on the stove, add oil and let heat on medium flame. Add seasonings and fry till urad dal turns golden
- Once the tempering turns golden add chopped onion and cook till onion turns translucent.
- Add soaked chana dal mix well, cover it with a lid and cook for 5 min.
- Add chili powder and cook on high flame for half min, finally sprinkle some coriander leaves and switch off the flame.
- Simple, quick and tasty chana dal curry is ready!Have it with plain rice or add some water and cook for 10 more minutes and have with jeera rice or phulka.