आंबे डाळ / Mango-chana daal

This is a traditional Maharashtrian recipe prepared during 'चैत्र मास' that is Summer :)Mango is a summer (seasonal) fruit and so is a keen ingredient in this recipe.

Women in Maharashtra arrange for a get together called as 'हळदि कुंकू ' means they perform Godess Gauri puja at home and then invite married women at home for a religious function.There are 2 main dishes served for this function. Ambe daal ( amba means mango in Marathi and daal is known to all :)

Traditionally it is accompanied with sweet and sour पन्हे a cool raw mango drink/Sharbat.

Which will be my next recipe.

Preparation time : 20 Minutes

Ingredients:

200gm split bengal gram/chana dal

1/2 cup shredded raw mango

3-4 green chillies

4 T spoon oil,mustard seeds,asfoetida powder,turmeric powder

salt to taste

half tsp sugar

finely chopped coriander leaves.

procedure:

1. Soak Chana daal in water for 5-6 hours.
2. Drain water totally.
3. Grind chana daal, green chillies together in a mixer. Grind it coarsely. In between coarse and fine. Not too coarse not too fine.
4. Peel raw mango and grate it. Add this shraded mango in ground daal.
5. Heat up oil in a small iron wok/kadhai.
6. Once oil is hot, put asafoetida powder, mustard seeds.
7. When mustard seeds crackle, put turmeric.
8. Turn off the heat and put this Tempering on ground chana daal.
9. Add sugar.
10. Mix well.
11. Add salt just before you serve this daal otherwise it may leave water.
12. Garnigh with chooped coriander leaves and serve.