KABULI CHANA (CHICK PEA) STEW

Ingredients

1.      Kabuli chana – ½  kg

2.      Potato -2chopped

3.      Tomato -2chopped

4.      Onion -3chopped

5.      Ginger- garlic paste - 1 tbsp

6.      Green chilly – 4chopped

7.      Chilly pdr -1 tsp

8.      Coriander pdr -2 tsp

9.      Turmeric pdr -1tsp

10.  Mustard seed -1 tsp

11.  Urad dal -1tsp

12.  Coconut milk -2 cup

13.  Salt as required

14.  Curry leaves -2stems

15.  Coconut oil -3 tbsp

Preparation

1.Soak the chana overnight and cook along with potato,  salt and turmeric pdr in a cooker. 

2.Heat oil in a pan add items 10,11 and 14, after sputtering  add onion and ginger- garlic paste, when it become slight brown, add the powders and sauté till the raw smell goes, then add tomato, sauté till it become soft. 

3.To the above add the cooked chana-potato, coconut milk and salt as required and boil the curry for 5 more mts.

4.Serve hot with appam , idiyappam or chappthy.