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Himachali Dal Mahni


Ingredients

1 cup mixed dal
Take equal amounts of broken black urad dal, chana dal and one handful of black eyed beans             (chavali \ rongi) to make one cup of dal.
Water to boil ( 6 cups )
1/2 tsp haldi
1 tsp mirchi
1 tsp jeera
1/4 th tsp hing
1 ladle ghee
lemon sized ball of tamarind
1 chopped onion lengthwise
Green chillis 1 or 2 chopped lengthwise
Ginger 1 inch chopped lengthwise


Method

1. Boil the dal add salt and six cups of water in a pressure cooker.
2. Slow gas after first whistle and cook for 15 minutes.
3. Open the cooker and remove 2 cups of water from the dal.
4. Soak the ball of tamarind in this.
5. Prepare tadka for the dal. Heat ghee, add hing, jeera , haldi, mirchi and put in the dal.
6. 1 to 2 more whistles of the pressure cooker after we put the tadka.
7. When tamarind is soaked strain the water through a strainer add onions, ginger and chillis to the dal and tamarind water. This is called mahni.
8. Eat dal with hot rice and a few tspns of the mahni with it.

Comments

  1. Kasotee/ कसौटी15 October 2020 at 07:12

    When tamarind is soaked strain the water through a strainer add onions, ginger and chillis to the dal and tamarind water. This is called mahni.?


    Where is mahni. You added everything together.
    Explain again?

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  2. Aruna Gupta29 December 2020 at 08:34

    You have to remove the dal water as explained in step 3 . To this add the tamarind. Add the pyaaz mirchi and adrak to this water.

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