Dal Dhokli (Gujarati One Dish Meal) – Manjula’s Kitchen

Dal Dhokli is a standard Gujarati dish. This recipe consists of spicy complete wheat raw roti items simmered into dal and cooked to perfection. Dal dhokli has a light candy and spicy taste.  Dal dhokli additionally makes a pleasant one dish meal.

Preparation Time: quarter-hour

Cooking Time: 25 minutes

This recipe will serve 2

Components:

For dal

• 1/2 cup Toor dal (Pigeon peas)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
• 2 tablespoons peanuts
• 1/2 teaspoon Pink chili powder
• 1/2 cup tomato chopped
• 1 teaspoon ginger paste
• 1 tablespoon Jaggery, gur
• 3 cups of water

For Seasoning (Tadka)

• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1/4 teaspoon mustard seeds (rai)
• 1/4 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
• 1/8 teaspoon asafetida (hing)
• 2 complete crimson chilies

For garnishing

• 2 tablespoons cilantro finely chopped

For Dhokli 

1. 1/2 cup complete wheat flour (Chapati atta)
2. 1 tablespoon besan (gram flour)
3. 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric (haldi)
4. 1 tablespoon finely chopped inexperienced chili
5. 1/8 teaspoon asafetida (hing)
6. 1/8 teaspoon Carom seed (Ajwain)
7. 1/2 teaspoon Salt
8. 1 tablespoon Oil
9. 1/4 cup water

Technique

For the dhoklis

1. Mix all of the elements in a bowl, complete wheat flour, besan, turmeric, inexperienced chili, asafetida, carom seeds, salt, and oil and blend it effectively. Add the water as wanted to make agency dough, this could take about ¼ cup of water.
2. Divide the dough into 2 equal components and roll out every portion into about 7 inch in diameter. If wanted use little complete wheat flour for dusting the rolling floor that can assist in rolling.
3. Minimize every roti into about 1-1/2 inch squares and put aside.

For the dal

1. Clear, wash and drain the dal. In strain cooker add dal, salt, turmeric, and three cups of water. Prepare dinner over medium excessive warmth.
2. When the strain cooker begins to steam, decrease the warmth to medium and cook dinner seven minutes.
3. Flip off the warmth and permit the steam to flee earlier than opening the lid.
4. Mix the cooked dal and 1 cup of sizzling water, whip the dal so it turns into creamy texture, you should use the hand blender to combine dal. Dal will probably be consistency of thick batter. Add about 3-4 cups of boiling water. Dal needs to be very liquidey, consistency of runny batter.
5. Add peanuts, chili powder, tomatoes, ginger, and jiggery to dal, combine effectively and cook dinner on a medium flame for 2-3 minutes, stirring sometimes.
6. Put together the seasoning, warmth the oil in a small pan, when oil is reasonably sizzling add the cumin seeds and mustard seeds, asafetida, and crimson chilies and permit them to crack.
7. Add this tempering to the dal, combine effectively, add dhokli and cook dinner on a low medium warmth for about quarter-hour, stirring sometimes.
8. Add cilantro and cook dinner for one more 2 minutes on low medium warmth.

Dal will get thicker because it cools.

Serving options

Serve with plain rice, drizzle some ghee and lemon juice on prime proper earlier than serving dal dhokli.  Dal dhokli needs to be served sizzling.

Additionally, you will take pleasure in different one dish meal like, masala khichdi, Vegetable rice, and Quinoa vegetable pilaf

Initially posted 2016-01-28 02:18:20.

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