Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chana madra. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chana Madra is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chana Madra is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chana madra using 23 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chana Madra:
- Make ready 1 cup chickpea
- Get 4 tbsp mustard oil
- Prepare 1 bay leaf
- Take 2 dry red chillies
- Get 1 teaspoon cumin
- Get 1/2 teaspoon hing/ asafoetida
- Make ready 10 cashew nuts
- Prepare 1 tbsp raisins
- Get 1 inch cinnamon
- Get 4 cloves
- Make ready 2 green cardamoms
- Get 2 black cardamoms
- Take 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Take 3 teaspoons cumin coriander powder
- Get 2 teaspoons red chilli powder
- Make ready As per taste Salt
- Get 2 cups curd
- Take 1 tbsp plain flour (optional)
- Get 200 grams cottage cheese (optional)
- Take 1 tbsp rice flour
- Make ready 2 teaspoons sugar
- Prepare 2 tbsp ghee
- Take 2 tbsp coriander leaves
Instructions to make Chana Madra:
- Wash and soak chickpeas for 8 to 10 hours. Add 1 piece of cinnamon, 2 cardamoms, 2 black cardamoms and one bay leaf with chickpeas to a pressure cooker and boil it.
- In a mixer jar make a coarse powder out of cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom and black cardamom.
- Heat oil in a pot and add pieces of red chilli and bay leaf. Add cumin and saute it until light brown in colour. Now add hing to it. Add cashew nuts and raisins and saute until light pink in colour. Add the whole spice powder to it. Now add turmeric, red chilli, coriander cumin powder and salt to it and mix everything well. Add boiled chickpeas and mix it. Cook it on low heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
- Mix curd and plain flour in a bowl and whisk it. Using plain flour is completely optional but it is added so that the curd does not split when it is added to the curry. Add this mixture to the gravy and stir it continuously until one boil.
- Now add cottage cheese pieces to the gravy and mix it. Adding cottage cheese is also optional. Mix rice flour with some water and make a slurry out of it. Now add this slurry to the gravy along with sugar and mix it well. Cook the curry for 10 minutes on medium heat. Now add 2 tbsp of ghee and coriander leaves. Mix it well and turn off the heat.
- Serve chana madra with babru. It can be even served with paratha or rice.
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