black channa in peanut curry (கொண்டை கடலை)

I make black channa dishes often.I am vegeterian and to get more protien in my diet I add dal varieties. I have a special liking to this channa inspite of others dals, I don't know why .This channa is very good for eye health and is very rich in protien than white channa. I regularly grind onions and tomatoes and add it to the curry if I make parathas, rotis . But this time I thought of doing something different and bhawnas recipe got my attention and this is my take on the same.


You can check other curries like Rajma gravy,Vegetable kuruma

Preparation time:12 hrs(soaking the channa)
Cooking time:15 min+15 min
Serves:2-3

Ingredients:

•  1 cup black channa(soaked overnight)
• 1 medium size onion
• 1/2 country tomato
• 1 green chili.
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste.
• Oil for tempering.
• A pinch of turmeric
• salt as required.

Roast and grind:

• 10 groundnuts.
• 1/4 tsp sesame seeds.
• 1/4 tsp cumin seeds.
• 2 red chili.
• 1/2 tsp methi seeds

To temper:

• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds.
• 1 inch bayleaf
• 1 cloves.

Method:

• Soak the channa dal overnight.
• Cook it in a pressure cooker until it turns soft.
• Roast and grind the ingredients in roast and grind list to a coarse powder.
• If the groundnuts are raw you can roast them seperately.
• Grind the tomatoes in to puree.or chop them .
• Cut the onions very thin.
• Temper the hot kadai with oil in items to temper.
• Add onions,green chili and saute them for a minute.
• Add ginger garlic paste and saute it until the onions are translucent.
• Add the ground tomato paste/tomato and saute it until cook through.
• Add pinch of turmeric .
• Cook it for 2-3 min .
• Add the cooked channa,groundnut mixture to it.
• Add water if required .
• Let it come to boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
• If the gravy is too thin add 1 tsp rice flour to 1 tbsp water and add it to the curry.
• Serve it with hot rotis,chapathis,parathas of your choice.
• Serve them with variety rice like coconut rice,lemon rice,plain biriyanis as well.

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