Mixed Sabut Daal (Indian Savory Of Mixed Legumes)

Mixed sabut daal

Dals (pulses and legumes) are rich source of protein and fibers. When different type of whole daal (legumes) are cooked requirement of different type of proteins by the body, is met. Vegetarians and vegans can rely on these power packed legumes and pulses to deliver protein, dietary fibers and many micro nutrients, which are essential for proper growth and sustenance of human body.

Many times I get queries that we used the same amount of tomatoes but our gravy/daal became too sour, or we used the same amount of chilies but gravy / daal became too spicy. I always mention in the tips that always check your tomatoes for sourness and chilies for hotness before use. They may differ with the variety which is being used.

Tips and suggested variations should always be read before following the recipe.

Preparation Time: 5 – 10 minutes

Cooking Time: 45 minutes

Servings: Serves for 4-5 person (5 large servings)

Ingredients Required For Making Mixed Sabut daal:

• Rajma (Kidney Beans): 20 gm.
• Chole (Chick peas): 20 gm.
• Lobhiya (Black eye beans/cow beans): 20 gm.
• Kala Chana (Bengal Gram): 20 gm.
• Sabut Masoor (Whole lentil): 20 gm. (optional)
• Sabut Urd daal (Whole black gram): 40 gm.
• Onion: 50 gm. (1medium size)
• Garlic: 5-6 Cloves
• Tomatoes: 100 gm. (Two medium size)
• Bay leaves: 2
• Lawang (cloves): 3-4
• Dalchini (Cinnamon): 1/2 Inch piece
• Badi Elaichi (Black cardamom): 2
• Sabut Lal Mirch: 1
• Lal Mirch Powder (Red chili powder): 1 Teaspoon or to taste
• Kashmiri Mirch Powder: 1 Teaspoon (This is very less spicy but gives amazing color to savories)
• Salt: To taste
• Ghee (clarified butter): 50 gm. (Molten 4 table spoon/solid 2 table spoon)

Nutritional value: (Approx. value total daal made from above ingredients)

Energy: 350 cal.

Carbs: 55g

Fat: 20g

Protein: 25.5g

Dietary fibers: 16g

Sugars: 4.5g

Sodium: 13mg

Potassium: 625mg

Extremely rich in micro nutrients and minerals, to name few

Calcium, Manganese, Copper, selenium, Phosphorous, Zinc, Magnesium, Iron, Vitamin C, A, B and foliates.

Direction For making Mixed Sabut Daal (savory of Mixed legumes):

• Mix all sabut daal (legumes) except sabut masoor (whole lentil).
• Wash them thoroughly and soak for 6-8 hours.
• Once the whole daal (Legumes) are soaked and swell up, drain the water. Give gentle wash under running water.

Soaked Mixture of  Sabut Daal

• Pound both black cardamom in a pestle-mortar. Keep aside.
• Wash sabut masoor (Whole lentil) and add to the soaked sabut dal mixture.
• Put all these above daal in a pressure cooker. Add
• 500 ml. water
• 1 Teaspoon salt
• 1/2 Teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 Pounded black cardamom
• Put the lid on the cooker and start cooking on high heat till pressure starts building.
• Reduce the heat to low and allow the mixture of legumes ibn cooker to cook for 15-20 minutes.
• While mixed sabut daal are cooking in cooker, peel and chop onions finely.
• Peel and chop garlic and ginger finely or make paste of garlic and ginger. I prefer finelly chopped garlic and ginger because it gives better flavor.
• Either chop tomatoes super fine or make paste of it by chopping and pulsing the tomato pieces in a mixer-grinder. I prefer to make paste because it saves time and effort both.
• After 15-20 minutes of cooking the sabut daal mixture on low heat, switch off the heat. Allow the boiled daal mixture to cool.
• While the boiled sabut daal are cooling in the pressure cooker, make the tadka masala for the daal.
• In a thick bottom pan or wok take ghee (Clarified butter), heat it on medium fkame till hot but not smoking. Add
• Bay leaf
• 1Pounded black cardamom
• Cinnamon stick
• Cloves
• Whole red chili
• Cook for 15-20 seconds.

Whole Spices In Ghee

• Immediately add garlic and ginger (Chopped/paste) cook for 30 seconds with continuous stirring. The raw flavor of garlic will disappear and wonderful aroma of cooked whole spices, garlic ginger mixture will come.

Chopped garlic-Ginger Added to spices in Ghee

Ready for Onion to Be Added

• Add chopped onions and lower the heat. Cook with constant stirring till the onion pieces start becoming golden. They will become translucent and will start gaining golden brown color.

Onions Added to spices and Ginger-garlic

Ready For Tomatoes to be Added

• Add 
• Tomatoes
• Red chili powder 
• Kashmiri Mirch Powder
• Garam masala (optional)

• Mix nicely and cook on low flame till the tomatoes are cooked and ghee starts separating from the mixture. keep stirring in between so that the contents do not stick to the bottom.

Tomatoe paste and Chili Powder Added 

Masala Ready For Boiled Daal To Be Added

• The cooker and its contents must have cooled by now. Put all the liquid and the boiled dal mixture in the wok with tadka masala.

Boiled Mixture of sabut daal

Boiled sabut daal Added 

• Mix nicely. Add 150 ml.water, mix nicely and bring heat to high. Let the mixture of daal with masala come to a boil. Add garam masala (optional)

All spiuces, salt adjusted and daal allowed to Boil

• Check for the salt, spiciness and thickness of the daal. Adjust and balance by adding salt, chili powder and water. Bring the heat to low. Cover and cook for 2-3 minutes.
• Let it cool for few minutes in the covered wok. This will ensure all spices flavor to mix with each other and seep in the daal nicely.

Sabut Daal Ready To Be Served

• Take out daal while it is hot in a serving bowl and garnish it with chopped fresh coriander leaves.

Mixed Sabut Daal

• Serve with Roti / Naan / Parantha / lachcha parantha / steamed rice.

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• Tomato pickle goes very well with it. I call it north meets south. (This daal is basically Northern India cuisine and Tomato pickle originated in Southern India)

Tips:

• Do not soak masoor daal. Add it to soaked sabut daal after giving masoor daal a good wash.
• Do not overcook onions. They should be translucent and just starting to go golden brown when tomato is added.
• Always check the chilies for their hotness before adding. Adjust the amount of chilies according to its hotness and your taste.
• Some tomatoes are very sour and some have sweet taste to them. Taste them and change the amount according to the sourness of tomatoes.

Suggested variations:

• Onion garlic can be omitted; Cumin seeds can be added to hot ghee and then rest of the condiments are to be added as described in directions.
• Vegans can replace ghee with olive/mustard oil or any other cooking oil.

Lazzatdar Kebab/chana kebab / काले चने के कबाब (Kebab Of Kala Chana)

Pan Fried Lazzatdar Kebab

Fried Lazzatdar Kebab

These are the Kebabs which melt in mouth and nutrition wise as well as taste wise are the best replacement for mutton Kebabs for vegetarians. I learnt them when I was doing MSc. way back in 1976.

My brother who was doing his MBBs came to Almora with his friend and I wanted to give a day off to my mom from kitchen and make something else than the regular food, so my friend's mom taught me how to make Lazzatdar Kebab. These lazzatdar kebabs  served with coriander mint chutney were so good that my brother as well as his friend could not believe that they are not mutton kebab! And best part is that my mom also could eat them as they were pure vegetarian kebabs.

It was real delight to see her enjoying these kebabs, because it was always she used to cook and we used to enjoy the fruits of her hard work.

Preparation Time: 30 – 40 min.

Cooking Time: 20-30 min.

Servings: 8-10 Medium size Kebabs

Ingredients required for making Lazzatdar Kebabs;

• 250gm. Kala Chana (Black Gram)

• 2 Medium size Potatoes

• 2 medium size Onions

• 2 Fresh Green Chilies

• 1 Inch piece of Ginger

• 5-6 Cloves of Garlic (optional)

• 5-6 Sprigs of Fresh Green leaves of Coriander.

• 2 Tea spoon Garam Masala

• 2 Tea spoon Red chili powder (or to taste)

• 2 Tea spoon Amchur powder.

• Salt to taste

• 4-5 Tea spoons of Olive oil (or any other cooking oil)

Direction for Making Lazzatdar Kebabs:

• Wash and soak kala chana in water over night.

• Drain out the water in which kala chana was soaked overnight.

• Wash the soaked chana nicely.

• Put soaked chana in a cooker, add 200 ml. water and one tea spoon salt, close the lid.

• Keep the cooker on high flame till pressure builds in the cooker.

• Lower the flame when pressure builds in the cooker and cook for at least 15min. to make sure that chana is cooked to softness.

• Remove the cooker from gas and allow it to cool.

Boiled Kala Chana

• Boil potatoes and peel them. Keep aside.

Boiled and peeled Potatoes

• Cut onions finely

Finely cut onions

• Cut green chilies finely.

Finely cut Green Chilies

• Cut garlic finely

Finely cut Garlic

• Wash and drain water from coriander leaves and cut them finely.

Finely cut Green Coriander Leaves

• Grate the ginger piece.

• Cook the boiled Chana till its juices dry up but yet remains moist or drain juices from boiled chana completely. Draining juices reduces the flavor.

• Peel boiled potatoes and keep aside.

• Mash boiled chana with your fingers nicely till not even a single whole chana is left. Or simply grind it in mixer "Without adding water.

ashed boiled Kala Chana

• Add to the mashed chana

• Finely cut onions

• Finely cut garlic

• Grated ginger

• Finely cut green chilies

• Finely cut coriander leaves

• Garam masala

• Red chili powder

• Amchur

• Salt

• Boiled potatoes

Mash boiled Kala chana with coriander leaves, onions, garlic, green chili, garam masala, red chili powder,ginger, amchur and salt

Boiled and broken potatoes with rest of the ingredients

• Mix all ingredients with regular mashing of potatoes till the mixture becomes homogenous dough.

Dough of kala chana with rest of the ingredients ready for making Kebabs

• Make balls from the dough mixture of required size and flatten them between your palms.

Dough of kebabs made to round of required size

•   Keep a non- stick tawa on gas on high flame and spread one tea spoon of oil on it.

Non stick Tawa being heated with spoon full of olive oil

•   When the tawa becomes hot lower the flame and keep the flattened balls on the tawa.

Kebabs being cooked on tawa

• Sprinkle one tea spoon oil from side of kebabs.

• Cook on low flame till one side is golden brown.

• Turn the kebabs upside down and sprinkle 1-2 teaspoon of oil and cook till other side is also golden 

Turned upside down and being cooked on the other side

• Serve hot Lazzatdar Kebabs with coriander mint chutney and ringlets of onions as snacks, side dish to main course.

Pan Fried Lazzatdar Kebab with Coriander-Mint chutney

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• These Kebabs go very well with Roomali roti, bread and hot buttered buns.

Pan fried Lazzatdar Kebab , Coriander-Mint chutney and Hot buttered Bun

Tips:

• Make sure chana is boiled to softness.

• Make sure boiled chana is mashed completely.

• Do not add water if using grinder/mixer while grinding boiled Chana .

• Make sure potatoes are mashed completely in the mixture of kebab.
• If you have drained the liquid from boiled Chana then it can be used as soup with a dash of lemon juice and pepper powder.

Suggested Variations:

• Powdered, soaked soya beans nuggets (Nutrela) can be added to the mixture. It enhances the taste as well as nutrition value as soya beans are rich in protein.

• If you prefer deep fried Kebabs then add 50 gm. corn flour to the mixture and also coat the flattened balls with corn flour before frying.

Balls for Kebab rolled in Corn flour

Lazzatdar Kebab (Fried)

• Corn flour can be replaced by bread crumbs.

• Those who do not take onions and garlic can replace onions and garlic by ginger, and potatoes.

• Place one kebab, some salad leaves, onion ringlets, tomato ringlets, on a buttered slice of bread. Sprinkle sauce of your liking and place another slice of bread on the top of it or put them in a burger bun and  vegetarian burger is ready.