Sep 24, 2007

Moong Daal chila(indian pancake)

This is dish of North India.....they call it "Moong daal chila".
a very tasty and healthy breakfast.
Here goes the recipe:--

ingredients:-

1 cup moong daal
1 green chili
1' ginger
1 tspn cumin
salt to taste

for filling

1 medium onion (chopped finely)
1 medium tomato(chopped finely)
1/2 cucumber (chopped finely)
salt to taste
Mix all these together.

Recipe:-
  • Soaked moong daal overnight.
  • Grind all the "Ingredients" together.
  • Mixture should not be very thick or thin.
  • Add chopped coriander leaves to the mixture.
  • Heat a tava or pancake pan on medium high.
  • Pour 1 1/2 tblspn of batter on to the pan, and spread it out with the back of a spoon.
  • Drizzle with oil on the sides of pancake.
  • Cook till golden brown, then flip and cook for a min.
  • Now flip the pancake and fill the mixture of onion,cucumber and tomato in center of pancake
  • Fold the pancake.
  • Serve with green chutney or lasun chutney and tomato sauce.
Repeat the same for remaining batter.

Notes:-

You can mix the onion cucumber and tomato to moong daal mixture.
Add green chili too if you like to have spicy chila.
You can add whole moong to moong daal for more healthy and tasty pancake.

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