Channadal Khatta/Creamy Chattisghari Channa Dal /Khatte Channa Dal

Nothing can beat a bowl of comforting dal with some rice or rotis to finish our meal. Am a ardent fan of simple dal recipes and whenever i get a prefect dal recipe to cook with, i wont skip making the dish. A prefect satisfying meal must have definitely a dal based dish to please our tastebuds rite. And my space is loaded with many delightful protein rich dal dishes. However i have many to try and show case in my space. My today's post is an interesting dal from Chattisghar cuisine. Actually this dal dish goes for a facebook group event in which i have been a member since three months. Every month either we cook with Alphabets or Recipe swap, and vice versa. Since i like challenges, i couldnt stop myself to join this group. This month's challenge is Recipe Swap and i have been paired with Seema of Mildly Indian. While going through her space, this creamy Channa dal khatta caught my attention and immediately i tried at home to pair with Dhuska. Trust me, this dal works awesome with Jharkhand fried bread and we finished our lunch happily with these two delicious Regional foods.

Fara/Chattisgarhi Rice Flour Dumplings

Fara/Phara is a steamed rice flour dumplings which is a favourite breakfast food of peoples of Chattisgarh. This region is known for their rice production on large scale, hence rice is eaten widely in the state. Called either as Muthia or Fara, this dish is a beautiful steamed dish to relish with a spicy chutney.Rice flour once kneaded with hot water and shaped as oblong shaped dumplings which is cooked with tempering makes this fantastic healthy breakfast dumplings. As much as like South Indians mani kozhukattais, this faraa is definitely a must to try if you love mani kozhukattais.

Khurmi - Chhattisgarh Special

Chhatisgarh, is a state in Central India,which is 10th largest state of India.Its believed that Chhattisgarh got its  name from the 36 pillars of Chhatishgarhin Devi Temple, chhattis means 36 and garh means fort.The state of Chhattisgarh is known as the rice bowl of Central India. Most of the traditional and tribal foods are prepared with rice and rice flour. You know wat, one of the common meal Chhattisgarh people enjoy during scroching summer is Bore Baasi which is one of ancient food which we would have tasted atleast once in our life. Yes this Bore Baasi is nothing a day old cooked rice served with rice soaked water or buttermilk or else with curd and it is served along with pickle or shallots.

Chhattisgarh have its own tribal cuisine,coming to this Khurmi, its one of the traditional sweets prepared in this state. Along with khurmi, balooshahi,kusli and gulgula are well known sweets of Chhattisgarh. While googling i got this healthy but deep fried Khurmi recipe from here, this sweet is very easy to prepare but very addictive. Wheatflour,jaggery, ghee and sesame seeds are the main ingredients for making this sweet, once deepfried you can conserve this sweet very well.They can lasts for many days.