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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Indian Subcontinent >> Indian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat oil in a pressure cooker or pot on medium flame. | 2. Once the oil is hot, lower flame and add cumin seeds to it. | 3. Allow to crackle. | 4. Once it stops crackling, add ginger, garlic, onion and green chillies. | 5. Mix well and stir-fry until the raw smell of ginger and garlic is gone, and the onions are softened. | 6. Then, add the turmeric powder, kasoori methi and red chilli powder. | 7. Mix well and then fold in the chopped tomatoes. | 8. Stir and cook for 5-7 minutes. | 9. Drain the chana dal (lentils) and add it to the ginger-garlic-tomato mixture. | 10. Mix well and fold in salt and stir in the water. | 11. Close the pressure cooker with its lid. | 12. Allow to pressure cook upto 3 whistles. | 13. Turn off the source of heat{gas stove/electric skillet}. | 14. Let the pressure cooker sit on the same skillet or stove on which it was cooking the lentil curry for 25 minutes. | 15. Remove from the skillet and wait for the pressure to be gone. | 16. Open and serve over my"Dad's Half-way Sindhi and half-way yellow rice recipe"{posted separately} alongwith plain yogurt on the side. | 17. Enjoy! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
channa dal	2	cups	washed drained	-	-	-	-
turmeric powder	3	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
red chili powder	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
green chili	1		washed trimmed chopped	-	-	-	-
salt	2 1/2 - 3	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
water	4	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic	2	cloves	peeled washed chopped	8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
garlic	1	clove	peeled washed chopped	8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
ginger	1	inch	washed peeled chopped	-	-	-	-
canola oil	1	tablespoon		123.76	0.0	0.0	14.0
onion	1		peeled washed chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
onion	1		peeled washed chopped	60.0	14.01	1.65	0.15
tomato	1		washed peeled chopped	41.86	9.282	2.184	0.364
rom tomato	2		washed peeled chopped	-	-	-	-
cumin seed	2	teaspoons		15.75	1.8581	0.748	0.9353
methi leaf	1/2	cup	crumbled	-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.