Coconut Chana dal Fry

We can make many dishes adding coconut as grated and extracted  milk forms.We use coconut milk in  preparing spicy gravy curries like chicken coconut milk,mixed veg curries and adding grated coconut in many veg fries like ladyfinger cococonut fry,Dondaka kobbari ,Brinjal fry,Beans fry,carrot fry,potato fry etc.....This curry is adding grated coconut in chana dal not toor dal.We make dals only using toor dal or moong dal.Adding chana dal also gives same taste and feel some relief from routine dal varities.This is very easy and simple recipe.There is no  need to add any vegetable(even tomato also).Onions should not be  fried well(semi fried) and use garlic cloves quantity as your wish.These two things increases the  taste of  the curry. Of course we make coconut toor dal curry also.

Ingredients

coconut	1
chana dal	100grs
oil	2 spoons
mustard seeds	1/4 spoon
cumin seeds	1/4 spoon
garlic cloves	10 to 15
curryleaves	few
onion	2
green chillies	5
dry chillies	2
turmeric	1/4 spoon
salt	to taste
red chilli powder	1 spoon

Preparation

Break the coconut into two halves.Then grate them with coconut grater.Keep this grated coconut aside.
Wash the chana dal  two times with water.Then drain the water  and add 2 glasses of drinking water in chana dal bowl and soak for 30 minutes.
After that boil this chana dal in pressure cooker for 2 whistles or you can cook chana dal on open vessel also but it will take more time.Drain the water and keep cooked chana dal aside.
Remove garlic layer and keep aside.
Wash onions and green chillies.
Cut onion into long size  pieces.
Split green chillies into two pieces.
Wash curry leaves and keep aside.

Method

1.Take a thickened bottom vessel and put on the flame.
2.After heating the vessel add  oil.
3.When oil is heated add mustard seeds.
4.When they started to crackle then add dry chillies and cumin seeds.fry for 20 seconds.
5.Add garlic cloves and fry for 2 minutes.
6.After that add curry leaves and fry for 10 seconds.
7.Add chopped onions and green chilli pieces and fry till  onion pieces just change its colour(no need to fry onions till getting dark golden colour.)
8.It may be take 3 to 4  minutes in medium flame.
9.Add cooked chana dal and  grated coconut and saute for 1 minute.
10.Then add turmeric,salt and red chilli powder and mix all well and saute for 5 minutes.
11.Taste the recipe for  salt and spicy is enough or not.
12.If not enough add some more salt and red chilli and keep to cook for 2 minutes.Then put off the flame.
13.This recipe is one of the traditional dish and you should like this recipe when you eat with steam rice adding little drop of ghee....

Keep in the mind

Use fresh coconut meat to grate.Stored coconut does not gives correct taste.
Soak the  chana dal before cook it .Because soaked chana dal can cook quickly and stops some acetic problems also.Soaked dal gives better digestion.
Add more garlic cloves.This recipe has special for more garlic cloves and semi fried onion pieces.