How to Prepare Delicious Dal Dhokli

Dal Dhokli. Dal Dhokli is an all-time favourite dish made in Maharashtra and Gujarat, in which strips of wheat flour dough are cooked in a tongue-tickling dal. The traditional Gujarati dal dhokli recipe is quite lengthy yet the outcome is tasty and amazing and worth every effort. Dal dhokli recipe - a traditional Gujarati one pot meal dish that is made by simmering wheat flour dumplings in thin gujarati dal.

Dough is made from atta with few spices. This delicious Gujarati speciality makes a hearty meal. Strips of whole wheat flour dough or dhokli cooked in a simple toor dal preparation which is sweetened with jaggery and spiced with a delicious mix of spices. You can have Dal Dhokli using 26 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dal Dhokli

1. Prepare of For Daal---.
2. It's of tur daal (100gm).Soaked.
3. Prepare of turmeric powder.
4. It's of red chilli powder.
5. Prepare of Salt.
6. Prepare of green chilli finely chopped.
7. You need of tomato (finely chopped).
8. It's of raw peanuts.
9. You need of cumin seeds.
10. Prepare of mustard seeds.
11. Prepare of fenugreek seeds.
12. It's of red dry chilli.
13. It's of hing.
14. It's of string of curry leaves.
15. Prepare of ghee/oil.
16. You need of Some fresh coriander chopped.
17. Prepare of lemon juice.
18. You need of For Dhokli dough--.
19. It's of wheat flour.
20. It's of besan (gram flour).
21. It's of turmeric powder.
22. Prepare of red chilli powder.
23. Prepare of carom seeds.
24. You need of hing.
25. It's of oil.
26. It's of curd.

The sweet, tangy and spicy flavours of this one pot meal will definitely be a hit at your home. It has soft textured dhokli submerged in semi thick dal like lentil gravy and has mild sweet and spicy taste of aromatic spices and crunchy peanuts. Dal Dhokli is a spicy, sweet, one-pot meal, prepared by simmering whole wheat flour bits in a lentil-based motley perked with spices. It is a popular dish in Gujarat and Rajasthan and is prepared mostly for lunch.

Dal Dhokli step by step

1. Add soaked dal in pressure cooker...Along with 2 cup of water, salt, turmeric powder, green chilli, tomato...And cook for 2 whistles.. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go down by itself..
2. In a mixing bowl add all ingredients for dhokli..And knead a dough using required water..
3. Roll it with rolling pin and cut them into desire pieces..
4. Meanwhile open the lid of pressure cooker...Mash cooked dal with hand whisker...Add required water, (for dal consistency)..add raw peanuts and let it boil...
5. When it comes to boil add dhoklies...One by one in dal...And cook for 5 -7 mins..On low to medium flame..
6. Now heat a tempering pan.Add ghee/oil.Add cumin seeds, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds.When they papaya.Add dry red chilli,hing.Curry leaves and in last.Red chilli powder and immediately dunk tadka into cooked daal..Add fresh coriander and..Cover it...Add lemon juice (optional)...
7. Daal dhokli is ready to serve.Serve with rice or as it is..

Here is how to make it in a traditional Gujarati style. One of the closest friends of my mom is a Gujarati. Dal Dhokli is a spicy, satisfying, and sumptuous one pot meal made by boiling lightly spiced wheat flour dumplings in a lentil base. Then for a final touch a spicy tempering is added to this cooked dal dhokli. The ultimate comfort food, Dal Dhokli is a sweet, spicy and tangy lentil stew with freshly made whole wheat noodles cooked in the lentils.