Thursday, May 20, 2010

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.....:-)

3 comments:

  1. Channa masala has come out perfectly sumathi .Likes its combo with poori.

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