This simple Chana Dal Rice is one of the dishes my mother used to make for Dushhera when we were kids! Simple spices and minimalist ingredients make this rice a super yummy tradition to follow!
Wishing you all a very very happy Dushhera! Dushhera has traditionally been a day where all thrrough my childhood I have got up late… just chilled out through the day and then towards the evening got ready to go see the Ravan burning and eat yummy Chana dal rice and jalebi made by my mom… somehow I am missing all this today.
Here at my inlaws’ home this a time for Ayudh Pooja… something which is the same as the Vishwakarma day we celebrate up north, so the Pooja of all cars, bikes etc has happened since morning and I also made some of the Chana Dal rice that my mom makes… Why do all these things taste better when moms make them? 🙂
I also did a small Pooja in the house on Durga-Astami… Ideally this is done by making Channa, Halwa and Poori and then calling lots of girls home and making them feed this. The memories from my childhood where we would go hopping from one house to another the whole day and then in the evening be delighted with the money that we collected are still fresh… these days kids are missing all these small pleasures of life, I tell you… we don’t get the girls here anyways so I did the Pooja and then send the food to my maid’s house and some construction workers around.
I have always wanted to celebrate Ojas’s all first festivals properly but somehow my mind has not been in it due to my cousin being so ill… my heart is just not in it.
Here’s the recipe of the yummy channa dal rice I made.
Happy Dushhera: A time for traditional Chana Dal Rice
Ingredients
- 1 cups basmati rice (washed and soaked for 30 min)
- 1/2 cup channa dal (washed and soaked for 2 hours )
- 3 onions medium sliced
- 2 tomatoes medium chopped
- 3 chillies dry red
- 2 green chillies
- 1/2 tsp masala biryani pulao
- 1/2 lemon
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 2 cups water
- to taste salt
Instructions
- Heat oil in cooker.
- Add cumin seeds and wait till they turn brown.
- Add dry red chillies, green chillies and fry for 1 min.
- Add onions and roast till they turn golden brown.
- Add tomatoes fry for another 3 minutes.
- Add salt and biryani pulao masala and the water.
- Add dal, rice and the lemon juice.
- Close the cooker and let the pressure build... switch off on one whistle.
- Open after some time and enjoy 🙂
Happy Dushhera to you nd family 🙂
Happy dushehra to everyone. May the forces of goodness and justice prevail.
happy Dasara to you too 🙂
Happy Dushhera to you too. Hope your cousin gets better soon.
My Mom also made this. Thanks for the recipe. I am definitely going to try it.
happy dussehra to u also!here also in Chennai..its celebrated as audh pooja on navmi, we used to do it on dashmi, doing a pooja for all weapons and books abnd then a fete in the evening:)
Happy Dusshehra to you too. I remember the Kanjak times so well of going from house to house, having yummy food & getting lots of gifts ::)
Cooked it today, its a winner 🙂
Happy Festivals !!!:)
thanks everyone for the wishes :)@phoenixritu,thank u
happy dussera festivals are the kind they should when you arent with the family.nicely decorated puja ghar…thanks for sharing the rec…will try it out for sure
Happy Dusshera 🙂 All mother’s recipes taste much better when we are away from them! Am going to try this one.
@gazal,ya u need ur family around u in festivals so much
I am gonna make that channa dal rice today 😀 Looks yum!
@aathira,thanks… hope u like it 🙂