This sat saw me sleep @ 5 in the morning (yes, sleep...not get up!) at a friends place.... her hubby's aunt and uncle were to come over, so I was wondering how to make some excuse and make myself scares, but my friends assured me its perfectly ok to stay on and their relatives were super chill.... so I stayed....and boy am I glad! Got along like a house on fire with them (wonderfully warm people) and aunty shared some awesome recipes and so I thought I'd share... here is one :)
Ingredients
1 bunch palak (chopped)
1/2 bunch methi (no stems)
a few stems of shepu leaves (optional - I am told they are called Dill leaves in english)
1 cup channa dal (125 gms)
3 finely chopped green chillies
2 or 3 tomatoes (chopped)
1 potato (sliced lengthwise)
1 carrot (diced)
1 bengan (diced)
salt and haldi to taste
For bagar
ghee (a couple of spoons)
1 head of garlic (about 8 or 9 cloves)
1 teaspoon jeera
2 red chillies, broken with hand
Method
Wash all the greens and then chop well put into a cooker with all ingredients. Put in water (should be about 1 inch above all the ingredients. Let the cooker give 5 to 6 whistles on high, reduce flame and give 1 more whistle. Turn off heat and let it stay closed and cook in steam+heat. Once the pressure is gone, remove lid and use the ghotani (used for making lassi) and properly ghotofiy the mixture.
Now heat the bagar ghee, put in the garlic finely chopped. Once it begins changing colour, put in jeera and hand broken chillies. Turn off heat and mix the ghota-hua-mixture with bagar.
Enjoy with jeera rice / steam rice or chappati - tastes super yum (and freezes well!)
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