Name: Dal dhokli recipe by shatakchhi rai at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: Soaked dal (yellow tur dal); Salt -1/2 tsp; Dogh (ata); Turmeric powder; Water

ABOUT Dal dhokli RECIPE

It is a traditional dish of Guajarati cuisine generally prepared with dals (lentils) and wheat flour as base ingredients. It has soft textured dhokli submerged in semi thick dal like lentil gravy and has mild sweet and spicy taste of aromatic spices and crunchy peanuts. Apart from being easy to prepare, healthy and stomach filling, this dal dhokli is capable of carrying entire meal on its own, which means that it can be served all by itself and one wouldn’t care for anything in accompaniment. Delicious!

Instructions

Boil dal with one fourth teaspoon turmeric powder and salt in a Pressure Cooker till completely cooked. Whisk till smooth.Transfer into a deep pan and heat. Take whole wheat flour in a bowl. Add gram flour, salt, one fourth teaspoon turmeric powder, half the red chilli powder, one pinch of asafoetida and oil and mix.
Add sufficient water and knead into a stiff dough. Roll the dough into a ball, apply a little oil and roll out as thin as possible into an oval shape.Cut into thin strips. Add salt, remaining turmeric powder, peanuts, kokum, jaggery and the remaining red chilli powder to the dal and stir. Add the dough strips and let it cook on medium heat. Do not stir too much or the dough strips may break.Heat ghee in Pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, broken dry red chillies, curry leaves and remaining asafoetida and add it to the dal.Let it simmer for five minutes.

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