Cholar Dal- another Bengali recipe

Cholar Dal

Ingredients:

• Raisins- one table spoon
• Salt to taste
• Cumin powder- one tablespoon
• Bengal gram divide or chana dal – 250 grams
• Sugar- two to four tablespoon
• Turmeric Powder- one tablespoon
• Chilli Powder – one table spoon
• Coconut -1/4th
• Bay leave-3
• Coriander powder- one tablespoon
• Garam masala powder- one table spoon
• Ghee- one table spoon
• Green chillies slit- four to six

Preparation:

• Wash the dal and then boil with four cups of water.
• Mix in cumin, turmeric, silt green chillies and garam masala.
• Mix in sugar and salt to taste.
• Mix well and then stir fry till the time the dal is thick and soft.
• Heat up some ghee in a pan or kadhai.
• Now mix the garam masala and bay leaves
• When it stops spluttering then mix in it to the dal.
• Mix it thoroughly
• Cut coconut into tiny dices and then fry them in ghee till they turn light brown
• Mix in the coconut fry into the dal and stir
• Serve hot with luchi