CHANNA MASALA - II

Hi friends, here comes an another way of preparing channa masala.....I learnt it from one of my friend. It taste different and good. Lets enter into the preparation.

Ingredients:

White Channa - 1 cup [soaked overnight]

Onion - 1

Tomato - 1

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 spoon

Chilli Powder - 1 spoon

Coriander Powder - 2 spoons

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 spoon

Curry Leaves - Few

Coriander Leaves - Few

For Seasoning:

Jeera - 1/2 spoon

Bay Leaf - 1

Pattai - 1 (Small)

Cloves - 2

Mace - 1

To Grind:

Grated Coconut - 1/4 cup

Jeera - 1 spoon

Method:

• Pressure cook the soaked channa and keep it aside.
• Grind the grated coconut and jeera into thick paste and keep aside.
• Heat a pan, add oil to it and fry the spices given in " For Seasoning".
• Add onion to this and saute until it turns golden brown.
• To this add tomato and saute until it becomes soft.
• Then add Ginger - Garlic paste and saute until you get a good aroma.
• Now add all the curry leaves and masala powders to it with cooked channa and required salt.
• Mix it well so that the masala will be coated to the cooked channa nice and leave it for few mints.
• Now add the grinded coconut paste to this and mix it well for few mints until the gravy becomes thick.
• Finally add coriander leaves and serve.

Channa masala is now ready to go with chappatis, naan, parota and rice. Try and taste it.....:-)