Dal Chakolya – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take wheat flour into a dish and add salt to taste. Mix well.
• Add a little water t a time and knead thick dough of it. Do not add much water at a time.
• Brush a lit little oil to dough and transfer it into a bowl. Cover and let it rest for 30-45 minutes.
• To make tadka for dal, heat up oil in a pan. You can use ghee or half ghee and half oil.
• When oil is enough hot, add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Add cumin seeds and let them sizzle up.
• Add garlic paste. You can use finely chopped garlic too. Fry for about a minute.
• Add asafetida, turmeric powder, methi seeds, curry leaves and green chili. Mix well.
• Add boiled dal. For that boil tur dal in pressure cooker and beat it really good.
• Add water. Mix well.
• Add tomato, goda masala, red chili powder, salt, tamarind pulp.
• You can use kokum instead of tamarind pulp.
• Mix well and bring it to boil.
• When it boils really good, lower down the heat to low.
• Add chakolya to boiling dal.
• For that, take 1 small ball of dough and roll it into thin chapatti.
• Cut it into any shape you want with knife or cutter and drop the chakolya into boiling dal.
• Cover and cook on medium heat for about 25-30 minutes.
• If dal thickens up and water reduces, add a little hot water at a time.
• Keep on stirring at the intervals.
• Dal chakolya are already.
• While serving add lots of ghee to hot dalfal and serve with papad and pickle.