Chickpea/Channa Dal Halwa~~SNC Challenge

First day of every month, i know most of us will check our mails just to know wat we guys have to cook for a fantabulous SNC challenge. I was super thrilled to check my mails this morning and i was surprised to see two beautiful dishes, for the Southern team Kirti challenged us with a droolworthy and irresistible channadal halwa while Swasthi challenged the opposite Northern team with flavourful Hyderabadi dum briyani.

I can talk for hours about this beautiful event started by Divya Pramil of You Too Can Cook. The motto of this event is to exchange an Indian recipe between two teams. One team is Southern team (bloggers  born and brought in South India) and the another one team is Northern team (food bloggers born and brought in North India). Every first of a month, a blogger from each team will challenge a recipe from their origin and the opposite team have to cook the recipe challenged by the other team.

I have tasted this channadal halwa long back at one of my friend's potluck party and i still remember the taste of this smooth and droolworthy halwa. Am damn sure you cant stop urself just with few spoons of this halwa. Thanks Kriti, we just love it and am just enjoying this halwa loaded with beautiful flavours.Sending to my own event Cooking with Seeds-Dals.

1cup Channadal

3/4cup Ghee

3/4cup Sugar

2+1/2cups Milk

1/2tsp Cardamom powder

Few Almonds and melon seeds

Wash and soak the dal atleast for 3-4hours.

Pressure cook the dal with a cup of water upto 3 hisses, remove the excess of water and let it cool.

Mash gently the cooked dal to make a bit coase paste.

Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan, add the mashed dal and fry on medium flame until the raw smell of the dal goes off and a nice aroma comes out.

Add the milk and cook in high flame and cook again.

Finally add the cardamom powder,sugar along with chopped almonds,melon seeds and cook again for few more minutes.

Serve hot in a small bowl or spread this halwa in a greased plate and slice it you desire.