channa dal rice

Ingredients

• Basmathi rice – 1 cup
• ChickPeas – 1/2 cup
• Big tomato – 3
• Small coconut – 1/2
• Peeled Small onion – 1/2cup
• Garlic small – 8pods
• Oil – 3 1/2 tblspn
• Coriander leaves – 1/2 bunch
• Green Chilly – 2
• Dry Methi leaves – 1tblspn
• Garam masala powder – 1/2tspn
• Cinnamon – 1 inch stick
• Cardomon – 2
• Cloves – 3
• Bay leaf – 1
• Ghee – 2tspn

To Grind

• Small Onion – 10
• Red Chilly – 4(up to taste)
• Cumin Seeds – 1tspn
• Garlic small – 5pods
• Shredded coconut – 2 tblspn

Except coconut, fry the remaining ingredients using 1tspn oil and grind it with coconut.

Recipe

1. Soak the rice for 10minutes. Then drain the water.
2. Heat 1tspn ghee in a pan. Add the rice and fry it till the water evaporates from the rice and keep it aside.
3. Soak chick peas for 10hours. Then cook it for 15 minutes in a cooker.
4. Put tomato in hot water for 10minutes. Then peel the skin, grind it and filter it.
5. Grate the coconut and grind it with required water. Filter the coconut milk and keep it aside.
6. Heat oil in a big pan. Add cinnamon, cardomon, bay leaf, garlic and fry it till turns into golden brown.
7. Add slitted green chilly and onion and fry it for a minute.
8. Then add ground masala , fry it till the raw smell goes off.
9. Add tomato puree, methi leaves, salt, garam masala powder and let it to cook for 2 minutes.
10. Add cooked chick peas, 1 3/4 cup coconut milk and let it to boil.
11. Once it starts boiling, then add rice and mix well. Keep the stove in medium flme.
12. Close the pan and let it to cook for 20 minutes.
13. Now chick peas rice is ready to serve.
14. If you want to cook it by using cooker, then reduce the amount of coconut milk to 1 1/2  and cook it for 1 whistle.