Monday, April 21, 2014

Mung Lau Dalma & Channa Chadchadi - Orissa/Odisha Special

Orissa/Odisha is a state located on the South east coast of India, their cuisine known as Oriya cuisine.Most of the dishes from thos cuisine tastes delicious coz of their characteristic taste and flavor. This delicious and simple cuisine is influenced by the cuisines of the neighboring states of Bihar and West Bengal. People of Orissa are a happy union of both vegetarians and non vegetarians but non vegetarian foods is usually avoiced during the religious ceremonies, Mustard oil is used in everyday cooking and ghee is used during special days. Rice is the staple food of this state and wheat is the second popular crop, vegetables like brinjal, pumpkin,gourd are usually cooked. A traditional Oriya meal is served on large thali and other dishes are served in small bowls and placed around the large plate.A typical Oriya meal includes the intake of Saaga (green leaf-based dish), Bhaji (fried vegetable dish), Bhaat (rice), Dal (pulse), Besara or Mahura (curry tempered with spices), Machha tarkari (fish curry) and Khatta (chutney). Channa Dali is a preferred dish of the Oriyas which is a sweetened pulse dish tempered with coconuts, raisins, dry fruits and spices. Dalma is another favorite item of the Oriyas as the dish is a mixture of lentils and a number of vegetables and that make it a very nutritional dish. During the summer months the people of Orissa enjoy Pakhala (fermented rice seasoned with yoghurt and spices). Mitha Bhaat (sweetened rice tempered with a number of spices) is also a popular dish. People are also fond of Polao (rice cooked with butter, nuts, raisins, vegetables and spices).

No Oriya meal is complete without chutneys, so variety of chutneys are cooked and needless to say Oriya cuisine have a list of sweets especially milk based sweets.Pitha is a local name of cakes which are prepared with traditional methos. Tea and coffee are the popular beverages and Bel Pana is the drink made with milk, a pulp of wood apple, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with black  pepper. Fresh Fruit like wood apple,mangoes,jackfruits,watermelons, bananas are eaten by the people in Orissa. I cooked the famous dalma with yellow moongdal and bottlegourd along with channa chadchadi a stir fry with black chickpeas.Both makes a prefect meal and we had our lunch with these fingerlicking foods. Dalma and channa chadchadi are very quick and simple comforting foods which gets ready easily.Sending to CWS- Chickpeas guest hosted by Nalini.


Recipe Source:  Oriya Food
1cup Yellow moongdal
3cups Bottlegourd (cubed)
2tbsp Coriander powder
3nos Dry red chillies
1/2tsp Chilly powder
1tsp Cumin seeds
Few coriander seeds
1tsp Turmeric powder
Salt
Oil for tempering


Dry roast the mungdal until the colour changes and a nice aroma comes from.

Clean the dal and soak it for an hour.

Heat the oil, let crack the cumin seeds, dry red chillies, coriander seeds,fry it.

Now add the dal, cubed bottlegourd and add enough water to cook.

Add the salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder, mix well and cook until the veggies get cooked.

Add finally the coriander powder, cook in high flame for few minutes until the dal gets thick.

Serve with rice.


Recipe Source: Oriyarasoi
1cup Black channa (soaked overnite)
1no Onion (chopped)
1no Green chilly (chopped)
1/2tsp Coriander powder
1/4tsp Chilly powder
1/4tsp Cumin powder
2pinch Mustard seeds
2pinch Cumin seeds
1pinch Fenugreek seeds
2pinch Fennel seeds
Chopped coriander leaves
Salt
Oil

Cook the soaked black channa in pressure cooker for 2whistles.

Drain the chickpeas, keep aside.

Heat oil, add the seeds and fry,add immediately the onions and saute for few minutes.

Add the green chillies,black channa, cook for few minutes.

Now add the coriander powder,chilly powder,cumin powder, salt and cook until the channa gets well coated with spice powders.

Finally add the chopped coriander leaves.

Put off the stove.

Enjoy with rice.

35 comments:

vaishali sabnani said... Reply To This Comment

I love the flavours of the dishes. They are simple yet delicious. Daalma has been on my to do list since long.

Srivalli said... Reply To This Comment

The channa looks so sinful priya..very nice meal..

The Pumpkin Farm said... Reply To This Comment

the names qualify for tongue twisters :) but they look amazing

Priya said... Reply To This Comment

You r really bringing out the flavours of every state sis . So yummy kootu n curry

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

dleicious meal of Orissa

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

dleicious meal of Orissa

Lincyscookart said... Reply To This Comment

Both the recipes are healthy and protein rich traditional orissa preparations. Nice traditional recipes with Awesome photographs.

Lifewithspices said... Reply To This Comment

yummy recipes.. nice intro

Rafeeda AR said... Reply To This Comment

looks so similar to our food, the flavors i mean... comforting meal...

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

My MIL makes this dal and we love it!

Kaveri Venkatesh said... Reply To This Comment

Never knew that the north eastern states had so many veg options..thanks for sharing these

Shama Nagarajan said... Reply To This Comment

yummy preparation....tempting !!!!

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

wow you got many dishes!!! nicely done Priya!!

Eat n Eat little More said... Reply To This Comment

thats an awesome curry! :) looks so tasty n would be perfect to go with rice or roti too :)

MySpicyKitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Channa chadchadi is tempting. Lovely dishes for the state. Even dalma looks delicious

Harini R said... Reply To This Comment

Love the meal there. The chana looks very tempting.

Hema said... Reply To This Comment

Never tried Odisha food yet, this looks so delicious..

Sundari Nathan said... Reply To This Comment

Lovely meal!! Wish i was your neighbour akka:)

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Quite interesting and delicious recipes........ Never tried these !!! Looks super yumm...

Priya, i didn't get any invitation for shhh cooking secretly challenge. Can you pass me face book link so that I can join you!!
Thanks.

Menaga Sathia said... Reply To This Comment

simple n delicious recipe....lovely meal!!

Julie said... Reply To This Comment

yummy n delicious curry :)

Laavanya said... Reply To This Comment

Thanks for introducing me to these Northeastern dishes - they all seem so tasty and interesting.

Gita Jaishankar said... Reply To This Comment

The whole platter looks too tempting Priya...awed by your passion for cooking :)

Sona said... Reply To This Comment

Never knew there are so many wonderful dishes from these parts, looks very delicious..

Varada's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Nice meal. Would love to try the black channa recipe.

Unknown said... Reply To This Comment

Though the name is too long the dish is perfect...looks delicious dear..

Suma Gandlur said... Reply To This Comment

through your lens, both the simple dishes look very delicious.

Pavani said... Reply To This Comment

Delicious looking Oriya dishes.

Gayathri Kumar said... Reply To This Comment

Super inviting spread Priya. Love that channa dish so much...

Nalini's Kitchen said... Reply To This Comment

Simple yet comforting dishes,Channa chadchadi sounds inviting..

Padmajha said... Reply To This Comment

Both the dishes look so good Priya. The channa dish sounds delicious..

Chef Mireille said... Reply To This Comment

whole platter looks delicious - but the dalna especially I would want to try

jayanthi said... Reply To This Comment

all dishes look inviting.. perfectly done.. are making me hungry

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

I love the flavours.It beautifully done.

Archana said... Reply To This Comment

I love the flavours.It beautifully done.