The recipe chosen for this month challenge in Indian cooking challenge by Srivalli is Gujarati dhal from the book , Sukham Ayu written by Prathibha and Jigyasa's . Thanks a lot to both of them to share the recp. with all of us ...

I am very late in posting this month challenge ...well , the reason is I couldn't get the required vegetables ....only s.day I got Yam and drumsticks ...I couldn't get dried dates ...so used the normal ones...rest all followed the same recp. and made this immediately, for s.day night dinner ...it was so easy to make and it tasted delicious ...we had it with hot rice and potato curry ...

 Ingredients needed : 

• Toor dhal - 1/2 cup
• Tamarind juice
• Dry dates - 4 pieces
• Jaggery little
• Yam 
• Drumsticks
• Groundnuts - handful
• Green chillies - 2
• Turmeric powder
• Dhaniya powder
• Jeera powder
• Garam masala
• Salt 

for tempering : 

• Ghee
• Mustard seeds
• Methi seeds
• Jeera 
• Dry red chillies
• Hing powder
• Curry leaves

Method :

Pressure cook toor dal till done and then mash it well and transfer it to the kadai to the cooked dhal add yam + drumsticks + tamarind juice + pitted dates + groundnuts + jaggery + green chillies and add more water and allow it to cook well to this dal add all the rest of ingredients : salt + dhaniya powder + cumin powder + garam masala and cook it well till the veggies get cooked in a seperate kadai add ghee and temper with the given ingredients and add it to the dhal ...and serve it hot with rice ...