(269)Dal Dhokli

Ingredients

Ingredients for Dal:-

• ⅓ cup Tur dal.
• 2 tbsp. Oil for tempering.
• 8-10 Cashews.
• ½ tsp. Mustard seeds.
• ½ tsp. Sesame seeds.
• ⅛ tsp. Fenugreek seeds.
• ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
• ⅛ cup Coriander leaves.
• 8-10 Curry leaves.
• 1-2 Bay leaves.
• 2 cloves.
• 1-2 Green chilies.
• ¼ tsp. Ginger paste.
• ⅛ cup finely chopped Jaggery.
• 3- 4 Kokum.
• 2 tsp. Salt.
• 400 ml. Water.

Ingredients for making Dhokli:-

• 1 cup Wheat flour.
• 1 tbsp. Oil.
• ½ tsp. Salt.
• 1 tsp. Red chili powder.
• ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
• ½ tsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
• ½ tsp. Turmeric powder.
• 1 tsp. Sesame seeds.

Method

Method of making dal:-

1. Wash Tur dal 2-3 times and add 1 glass( 400 ml.) of water in it.
2. Add salt and pressure cook up to 3 whistles.
3. Once pressure releases, open the lid of the cooker and churn Tur dal with hand blender.
4. Heat oil in a tempering vessel.
5. Roast Cashews and keep aside.
6. Now in the same vessel with the remaining hot oil add Mustard seeds and wait for a crackling sound and then Fenugreek seeds.
7. Now add Asafoetida powder, Sesame seeds, Curry leaves, Bay leaf and cloves.
8. Saute for 30 seconds and pour in the dal pan. Also mix roasted Cashews and Coriander leaves.
9. Boil dal for 5 minutes after adding jaggery and kokum and keep aside.

Method of making Dhokli

1. In a mixing pan mix wheat flour with all dry ingredients and oil .
2. Knead smooth dough with water and keep aside for 10 minutes to set.
3. After 10 minutes divide dough into 6 equal parts.
4. Roll each dough portion into thin round chapati.
5. Roll all six chapati first and then cut each chapati into 2 square centimetres parts called dhokli.
6. Simultaneously boil 2 glasses of water in the pressure cooker or thick bottom pan.
7. When water starts boiling add all dhokli one by one. If you add all together then they stick among themselves and make a lump of dough. Please complete this process under fast flame and boiling water only.
8. Keep boiling for 5 minutes then take out one dhokli in plate and cut it with the spoon. If the edge of the spoon remains clean then it means dhokli is cooked.
9. Now add dal in the dhokli pan and stir continuously so that dal will mix properly.
10. Boil daldhokli for another 2-3 minutes.
11. Serve hot after adding desi ghee with Papad, Rice and Onion Tomato Salad.

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