~ Summer Food Festival ~ Recipe of the day: Dal-Special: Echorer Dal (Dal with Green Jackfruit)
Hello dear foodies! How are you all in this summer? Hope you all are well and taking care your family and yourself! I’m going
to start ‘Summer Food Festival’ of this year today and hope it will help you to
resist heat and to keep yourself cool!
Starting with ‘Dal-Special’ recipes, I am going to share a special Bengali Dal –
‘Echorer Dal’. This is an authentic recipe of Bengal; try it and share your
experience with me! Let’s go for it………..
Echorer Dal (Dal with Green Jackfruit)
Ingredients:
- Moong Dal: - 250gm
- Green Jackfruit (dressed and cubed): - 500gm.
- Coconut (chopped in small pieces): - ½ cup
- Tomato (sliced in small pieces):- 1cup
- Ginger Paste: - 1tsp
- Green Chili: - 4-5 pieces
- Cumin Seeds: - ½ tsp.
- Bay Leaf: - 2
- Cumin powder:- ½ teaspoon
- Coriander Powder:- ½ tablesp.
- Cooking Oil: - 1/2cup
- Turmeric Powder: - 1/2tsp
- Ghee: - 1tsp
- Garam Mashala Powder: - 1tsp.
- Sugar: - 1tsp.
- Salt: - to taste
Process:
- Roast the
moong daal in a pan and then boil it with salt and turmeric powder. Keep aside
when it boils well.
- In a
pressure cooker, boil the green jackfruits well and keep aside.
- Heat Oil and
add bay leaf, cumin seed and coconut one by one and cook until the coconut
becomes brown.
- Now add the
tomatoes, ginger paste, green chili, cumin powder, coriander powder, sugar,
boiled green jackfruits and mix well.
- Then, add boiled
daal, 1cup water and let the daal get cooked.
- Take it
off the flame when the daal becomes thick. Add ghee and garam mashala and
cover it for at least 5min.
- Garnish with
grated coconut and serve hot with rice or roti or paratha.
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