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Kerala Kadala curry recipe is a favorite dish to the people all over south India. This curry enriched with whole spices. The fragrance of coconut oil makes this delicious.
Let us see this recipe (Kerala Kadala curry)
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Kerala Kadala curry
Ingredients
For pressure cooking black channa
- 1 cup Black channa ( kondakadala)
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 cups water
Roasting and Grinding:
- 2 tsp coconut oil
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 3 cloves
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- few curry leaves
- 1 inch ginger
- 3 garlic cloves
- ½ cup coconut (shredded)
- 1 tbsp coriander powder
- 2 tsp Kashmiri red chili powder
- 1 tsp garam masala
- ¼ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 ladleful boiled channa (3tbsp)(for grinding)
For making curry:
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- few curry leaves
- 2 green chilis
- 1 tsp finely chopped ginger
- 10 shallots
- 1 tomato chopped
- salt to taste
Instructions
For pressure cooking black channa:
- Firstly wash the 1 cup of black channa 2, 3 times, soak it for 8 hours/ overnight
- Add the soaked channa in pressure cooker
- Pour 3 cups of water
- Add ½ tsp of water
- Pressure cook for 6 whistles
- Open the lid after pressure releases, Preserve 1 ladleful of black channa for grinding
Roasting and Grinding:
- Heat 2 tsp of coconut oil, add 1-inch cinnamon, 3 cloves, 1 tsp of fennel seeds
- Put the curry leaves
- Add chopped onion, garlic and ginger, saute well
- Now add ½ cup of coconut and saute it for 5 minutes
- Turn off the flame add the spices powders. ( 1 tbsp of coriander powder, 2 tsp of chili powder, 1 tsp of garam masala powder), mix well
- let this mixture cool for a while, then transfer this into blender jar
- Add 1 ladleful cooked black channa, grind it into smooth paste with little water
For making curry:
- Heat 1 tbsp of coconut oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves and green chilis
- saute the finely chopped ginger
- Now add the shallots, saute well
- Pour the black channa with the cooked water from the pressure cooker
- Add in the ground paste, mix well throughly
- cover and cook it for 10 minutes in low flame
- Finally, turn off the flame, now the curry is ready
Stepwise Picture Recipe:
For Pressure cooking channa dhal:
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follow the instruction carefully here, because, there may be the chance of scorching of spices.
so turn off the flame and then put the spice powders
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For making curry:
![Kerela Kadala curry](http://cuminpeppers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vlcsnap-2019-10-16-09h24m44s140-1024x576.jpg)
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![Kerela Kadala curry](http://cuminpeppers.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/vlcsnap-2019-10-16-09h26m49s111-1024x576.jpg)
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Note:
You can use the soaked water of channa for pressure cooking the channa, so you won’t lose the nutrients of channa
Furthermore, Adjust the spice level based on your taste
Keralites use puttu and kadala curry for breakfast. But we can combine with rice, idli, dosa as well as chapati.
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