Sunday, March 21, 2010

Black Chickpeas ( Dry Sabzi )


This is very easy black chickpea or kala channa recipe and is best served hot alongwith poori, raita and sooji ka halwa..This is the best meal a person can have. This combo meal is also made to be served on kanjak in Navratras.

Ingredients:-

Black Chickpeas:- 1/2 Cup (soaked overnight and boiled)
Oil:- 3 Tbsp
Cumin seeds:- 1/2 Tsp
Mustard Seeds:- 1/2 Tsp
Onion:- 1/2 (chopped)
Tomato :- 1 (chopped)
Turmeric Powder:- 1/2 Tsp
Coriander Powder:- 1/2 Tsp
Sugar:- 1/4 Tsp
Salt as per taste
Coconut Flakes:- 3-4 Tbsp
Garam Masla:- 1/2 Tsp
Coriander Leaves for Garnish

Procedure:-

1) Boil the chickpeas in water until soft , drain and set aside.
2) Heat the oil in a pan and saute cumin and mustard seeds. Add onion and saute until brown.
3) Stir in tomato and cook until soft. Add all the spices, sugar and salt and mix well.
4) Add the cooked chickpeas.
5) Take off the heat and add the coconut and coriander leaves.

Mix well and serve hot..Enjoy:)









35 comments:

  1. Love kala channa in all form :)

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  2. I love these dry chenna especially with pooris. Loved ur recipe and the click.

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  3. Wow mouth watering.. good to know about different customs during navrathri

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  4. Thanks for visiting my blog and leaving behind the lovely comment..pls do visit again....nice to meet u and get introduced to a nice blog....following u....

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  5. I love this..Looks simply delicious..

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  6. Lovely dry channa dish.Looks delicious.Do drop by simply.food sometime.

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  7. I love black chana..this is something new for me to try out

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  8. love love kala channa... nice post..

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  9. I love black channa. used to cook once in a week. It's very helathy too and your recipe is very nice. Never tried this version.

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  10. Awesome recipe.. great.. following you

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  11. Preety,

    Black Channa looks good.

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  12. Preety,
    On navami/ ashtami we used to make this. Haven't made it in last 2 years.....Thanks for reminding me:-)
    Looks delicious. I love to have this black chana with garama garam pooris.
    Deepa

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  13. lovely dish, my friend!!I always kind of like kala channa a little more than the regular channa...this looks gooood!

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  14. my all time fav..looks yummy and tempting

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  15. Protein packed sabzi, looks yumm!!

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  16. Curry looks healthy and lovely! I can have it just like that

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  17. I love this black channa....
    Looks delicious!

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  18. Thatz a very tasty curry Preety...I can even try this as an evening snack :)

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  19. Superb and mouthwatering! when I was little girl in navratra people usedto give this!

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  20. I love black channa, we do this for our local festival !!

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  22. That looks very delicious...i usually do sundal with black chana,now got one more recipe to try with these...

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  23. Very healthy sundal...looks comforting to me.

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  24. looks delicious.Its a very healthy one.
    we used to prepare different kinds of thoran(keralasabzi) but not yet tried this one..
    liked this recipe

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  25. Looks healthy and delicious sudal..

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  27. Sorry, that link is not working, so posting it once again. Award Link

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  28. I love it too, looks perfect & delicious!!!

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  29. i love this lovely channa .. Great click dear

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