Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki...

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I have always made the lauki seperate(like any other sabzi…pyaaz, tamatar, hari mirch, masala etc) and then added seperately cooked chana daal..

Is there another better/easier way to make this dish? What is the best way to galafy the chana daal?

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki...

Soak the Daal beforehand for a couple of hours, then just bring it to boil in Paani and let it simmer until it is tender/soft?

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki…

^^^thats what I usually do…not sure what went wrong the last time I made it but the daal would not gal! Is it possible for chana daal to get stale? Maybe I bought a bad batch :hmmm:

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki…

Well they can take longer to cook if they’ve been there for a long time. So that might be it?

But I don’t think they ever go ‘bad bad’.

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki…

Indiabazaar (their own brand) has best daalein ever. $6.49 for 8 pounds of daal. I made channa daal yesterday and it took less than an hr to ghallaofy it!

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki...

add in two pinches of soda bicarb when you boil it .. that should help ..

If you dont have the soda at hand try to cook the daal with the pot lid covered ... and add the salt in it rather adding it in the masala , salt sometimes helps things galo quicker ..

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki...

waise, pressure cooker isnt bad either !

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Re: Need some help with my channay ki daal & lauki...

My mom used to make this in Pakistan, she mostly used pressure cooker I guess....