Channa Masala #2

Ingredients:

White Channa - 1 cup
Onion - 2
Tomato - 2
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Pepper corns - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Chole Masala - 1 tsp
Bay leaf - 1
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - 1 inch piece
Coriander leaves - Little
Lime Juice - 1/2 limes juice
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Soak channa for 8 hrs and pressure cook for whistles.
• Fine chop one onion and roughly chop the other onion and tomato.
• In a pan heat oil and add roughly chopped onions and saute.
• Then add ginger garlic paste and tomatoes and saute for a while.
• Add pepper corns and fennel seeds and mix well.
• Let this cool and then grind it to a paste.
• In a cooker add oil, once it is hot add bay leaf and garam spices.
• Add finely chopped onions and saute for a while.
• Then add grinded paste and cook till raw smell goes.
• Add masala powders and reqd salt.
• Then add channa and reqd water, lime juice.
• Pressure cook this for one whistle and garnish with coriander leaves.