Dal Bati famous marwari dish
Ingredients
For dal:
2 cups - Rajma beans (soaked in water overnight with a pinch of soda bicarb)
3/4 cup - Whole black gram (urad) (soaked in water overnight with a pinch of soda bicarb)
3 Nos - Onions chopped finely.
2 Nos - Tomatoes, chopped finely.
2 tsps - garam masala powder.
2 tsps - Chilli powder.
1 tsp - turmeric powder
1 tbsp - Ginger-garlic paste.
2 Nos - Green chillies, slit lengthwise.
2 tbsps - cream
4 tbsps - Ghee (Clarified Butter)
1 cup - coriander leaves, chopped finely.
Oil to fry
Salt to taste.
For dumplings:
5 cups - Whole, wheat flour , sieved.
1 cup - Ghee, melted.
2 tbsps - Curd.
Salt to taste.
Cooking Instructions :
- Pressure cook rajma and black gram till it becomes soft.
- Heat 4 tbsps oil, Add onions and saute till brown
- Add ginger-garlic paste and tomatoes and saute
- Add all the masalas, beans and salt and simmer till well blended. The gravy should be thick.
- Pour over cream and ghee. Knead a soft dough with flour, ghee, curd, salt and just enough water. Roll into lemon-sized balls. Cover and keep for one hour.
- Then roast in batches on hot coals till puffed and golden outside and spongy inside. Keep hot.
- Garnish the dal with coriander leaves and slit green chillies. Dip hot dumplings in the dal while eating
Take a bowl, mix lemon juice, salt and red chili powder in it. Make small cuts on chicken chunks and put them in this mixture. Keep the bowl aside for about 1 hour. Then mix yogurt and the remaining ingredients of marinade in the bowl. Mix the chicken chunks properly in this mixture and keep the bowl in refrigerator for about 4 hours to marinate. Now skewer the chicken and place it in hot oven to grill for about 25 minutes until the chicken gets cooked. Rub the butter on the chunks and again roast them for about 8 minutes. Take a heavy bottomed pan, place it over heat. Heat butter or oil in it and then fry chopped garlic and ginger in it until they get golden brown. Then add onions in it and sauté them until they get soft and brown. Add tomatoes in it and cook them until the oil get separated. Add spice powder in the pan and fry them for few seconds. Now add the grilled chicken in it and add sugar and salt in it. Turn up the heat and gradually add milk in it and cook it by stirring regularly. Keep the chicken to simmer for about 10 minutes on low heat. When it gets ready then decorate it with chopped coriander leaves and serve it.
