Lauki Chana Dal Sabji or Dudhi Chana Dal
Lauki Chana Dal Sabji is one of the common house hold name in India. This healthy and tasty Lauki Chana Dal Sabji is quite famous in almost all over India. This healthy curry dish has both vegetable and lentil, perfectly goes well with roti, phulka, any Indian flat bread or hot steamed rice to make complete meal.
Bottle gourd, popularly identified as lauki across most Indian households, is believed to be one of the first plants to be cultivated in the world. This vegetable is excellent for balancing liver function for most people. It is often recommended by ayurvedic physicians when the liver is inflamed and cannot efficiently process food for maximum nutrition and assimilation.
Dudhi and Chana Dal Subji is a wealth of good health. Rich in protein and folic acid, thanks to chana dal and dudhi. This subji can be prepared simply and quickly provided you have soaked the dal earlier. The best part is that this no-fuss recipe is made with ingredients that you are sure to have at home!
Ingredients:
• 1 medium sized Lauki/Dudhi/Bottle Gourd
• ½ cup Chana Dal/Split Bengal Gram
• 1 medium sized Onion Finely Chopped
• 1 medium Tomato Chopped
• 1 tsp Ginger Paste
• 1 tsp Garlic Paste
• 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
• ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1 tsp Garam Masala
• 1 tbsp Kasuri Methi
• ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
• ¼ tsp Mustard Seeds
• Pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
• 2 Tbsp Oil
• Salt
• Chopped Coriander Leaves for Garnishing
Method:
1. Wash and soak dal for 40-45 min, then drain the dal and keep aside.
2. Peel lauki and cut into cubes.
3. Heat oil into a presser cooker. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, once seeds pops up then add pinch of hing.
4. Add chopped onion and stir till it becomes golden brown. Add ginger-garlic paste and again sauté it.
5. Add chopped tomatoes, chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, salt and stir fry until tomato pieces become little bit soft, do not overcook.
6. Now add the drained chana dal, copped lauki, 1 cup water and mix it well, cover the lid of pressor cooker and cook it for 4-5 whistle on medium flame.
7. Once done, let the pressor cooker cool down, and then remove the lid. Now add kasuri methi, chopped coriander leaves and mix it.
8. Lauki Chana Dal Sabji is ready, serve it with roti or steamed rice along with salad or raita.
Tips:
• You can use potato cubes or other veggies into this curry along with lauki.
• If sabjj has more liquid, then you can boil it for few minutes and vaporize the water.
- 1 medium sized Lauki/Dudhi/Bottle Gourd
- ½ cup Chana Dal/Split Bengal Gram
- 1 medium sized Onion Finely Chopped
- 1 medium Tomato Chopped
- 1 tsp Ginger Paste
- 1 tsp Garlic Paste
- 1 tsp Red Chili Powder
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Garam Masala
- 1 tbsp Kasuri Methi
- ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
- ¼ tsp Mustard Seeds
- Pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
- 2 Tbsp Oil
- Salt
- Chopped Coriander Leaves for Garnishing
- Wash and soak dal for 40-45 min, then drain the dal and keep aside.
- Peel lauki and cut into cubes.
- Heat oil into a presser cooker. Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, once seeds pops up then add pinch of hing.
- Add chopped onion and stir till it becomes golden brown. Add ginger-garlic paste and again sauté it.
- Add chopped tomatoes, chili powder, turmeric, garam masala, salt and stir fry until tomato pieces become little bit soft, do not overcook.
- Now add the drained chana dal, copped lauki, 1 cup water and mix it well, cover the lid of pressor cooker and cook it for 4-5 whistle on medium flame.
- Once done, let the pressor cooker cool down, and then remove the lid. Now add kasuri methi, chopped coriander leaves and mix it.
- Lauki Chana Dal Sabji is ready, serve it with roti or steamed rice along with salad or raita.
• If sabjj has more liquid, then you can boil it for few minutes and vaporize the water.
6 Responses to “Lauki Chana Dal Sabji”
I am loving this sabzi. Fantastic pictures make the dish, even more, yummier. Hey, you add mustard for seasoning ? really Jyothi is right, we prepare kootu with just chili, not the chili powder.
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Thanks Sathya!
Lauki curry looking so delicious!! Your photography is amazing 🙂
thanks Yamini!
Looks delicious Binjal… I can eat few extra rotis just for this dal… We make channa dal and lauki dish in South with slight different preparation and we call it ‘kootu’ 😉
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thanks Jyothi!