Potato, cucumber, chickpea salad with mustard sauce dressing

Ingredients:

1 cup cooked black chickpea

½ cup cucumber diced

¼ cup boiled and mash potato

Coriander for garnishing

For dressing:

1 tbsp mustard sauce

½ tbsp lemon juice

Salt to taste

2 tbsp olive oil

Method:

Combine all dressing ingredients in large bowl and mix it well. Add chickpea, cucumber and mash potato mix it well and serve chilled. Garnish with coriander.

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Gujarati Dal - Lentil soup

For Dal:

½ cup Tuvar dal

1 tbsp jaggery

½ tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp red chili powder

½ tsp ginger paste

2-3 Kokum or 1 tbsp lemon juice 

Salt to taste

For Tempering:

2 cloves

1 small cinnamon stick

½ tsp mustard seed

1 tsp cumin seeds

5 curry leaves

Pinch of asafoetida

1 Tamālapattram (tejpatta)

½ chakri phool (Star Anise)

1 tsp oil

1 tsp ghee

Method:

Wash the toor dal and sock for 15 minutes. Add 1 cup water and pressure cook dal for 4 whistle. Allow the pressure cooker to cool. Blend the cook dal with blender. Then add 1 cup water, jaggery, kokam, salt and boiled the dal for 5 minutes on law flame in deep pan.

For Tempering:

Heat ghee and oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, asafoetida, cloves, cinnamon stick, Tamālapattram (tejpatta), chakri phool (Star Anise) and curry leaves sauté for second and add it to the dal. Let it simmer for two minutes. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.



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Dal Khichadi - Easy one pot meal recipe

Ingredients:

½ cup rice 

½ cup spilt moong dal green

1 tsp garlic paste

1 tsp ginger paste

½ tsp turmeric powder

2 tbsp ghee

Pinch of asafoetida (hing)

2 ½ cups water

Salt

Method:

Soak the rice and moong dal for 15 minutes. Heats the ghee in pressure cooker add hing, garlic paste, ginger paste, turmeric powder and sauté for second. Add soaked rice and dal and water, mix it well. Cook for 4 whistles on low flame.   Serve with ghee or curd or butter milk.

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