Baked Channa Masala

Ingredients

• • White kabuli channas - 1 cup
• • Onions (chopped) - 2
• • Oil - 2 tablespoons
• • Salt - as required
• • Pepper - as required
• • Chilly powder - as required
• • Potatoes (cubed & deep fried) - 2

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Ingredients For Making Chutney (grinding Together)

• • Coriander leaves - 1 bunch
• • Mint leaves - 1 bunch
• • Green chillies - 3
• • Cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
• • Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• • Salt - as required
• • Lime juice - 1 teaspoon

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Ingredients For Making Sweet And Sour Sauce

• • Channa water - 1 cup
• • Tamarind - lime size
• • Jaggery - as required
• • Salt - ¼ teaspoon
• • Chilly powder - ½ teaspoon

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Method

• 1. Soak channa overnight and pressure cook.
• 2. Heat ghee or oil and fry onions til brown.
• 3. Add channa and all the other powders.
• 4. Remove from fire.

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Method To Bake

• 1. Grease a baking dish.
• 2. Arrange channa over it, put chutney and fried potato cubes on top, put again the remaining channa.
• 3. Make the sweet and sour sauce by taking tamarind juice, add Jaggery, chilly powder and salt. Boil until thick and glossy.
• 4. Pour sweet and sour sauce over the channa and bake for 20 to 30 minutes in medium heat.
• 5. Serve with finely cut onions and coriander leaves.