Channa

Ingredients:

• Channa - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Tomato - 2
• Ginger - 1 inch piece
• Chilli powder - 1 sp
• Channa Masala Powder - 2 sp
• Garam masala powder - 1 sp
• Jaggery - 1 sp
• Tamarind pulp - 1/2 sp
• Oil - 2 sp
• Salt - to taste
• Coriander leaves - 2 tb sp
• Tomato sauce - 1 tb sp
• Spices - Cardamom, Cinnamon, clove
• Knob of Butter or Spoon of Fresh cream

Method:

Pressure cook soaked chaana with little sugar and spices. In a small white cloth add all the spices and make it like a sack and put it in the pressure cooker.

Blend onion tomato and ginger to a paste.

Heat oil in a kadai and fry the ground paste in it till the raw smell goes and water evaporates.

add chilli powder and channa masala powder.

Now take the spice sack out and discard the content add the channa with that water and let it cook well.

Add a spoon of jaggery, tamarind pulp and salt to taste. Mash a little of the channa to give thickness to the gravy.

Add the tomato sauce and garam masala.

Garnish with chopped coriander and a knob of butter or fresh cream.

Note: Can also a add a potato while you cook the channa. Mashing the potato into the gravy will thicken it. Also cook channa in correct amount of water and use that in cooking as the flavor of the spice will be in it. Since we are using the water wash the potato well and add to avoid any sand or dust.