Hyderabadi kaddu ka dalcha || How to prepare vegetarian dalcha recipe

 Hyderabadi Dalcha - Hyderabadi kaddu ka dalcha is one of the popular dal/lentil based curry, this dalcha can be prepared by adding vegetables or by adding non veg. We can add veggies like bottle gourd, drumsticks, brinjal in dals like chana dal or by combining toor dal and chana dal or masoor dal/ red lentils to prepare this dalcha. Check this kaddu ka dalcha recipe in our youtube channel by just clicking below link

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We can prepare by adding garam masala and some spices or you can prepare it without too. Today I am sharing by adding spices.  In this kaddu ka dalcha is very popular and I  am sharing kaddu ka dalcha recipe. This is most requested recipe by my brother "Ajay Prabhu". Who d't like   Hyderbadi Dum Biryani recipe, I miss many Hyderabad days and family, friends I meet and I spent time with them. Hopefully I will meet all of them very soon 😍.  

 In our life journey we taste many food and it touch our heart, this is one such recipe. We even do not remember the person who treated us but the taste will remain on taste buds for long, what ??? you d't remember taste like that??? then you are not foodie like me 😉. This recipe is introduced by one of my friend/ bench mate  Anu  Hyderabad institute. When asked I her mom she gave recipe, which was in mind till date and yes that time I d't know cooking but I noted it😂. That day aunty was scolding my friend on phone he never asked recipe in her life and learn something from me 😎. When my Ajay anna asked to share this recipe I was excited and thought to share video soon. I thought to share video and blog at once but unfortunately every time something missing(some clips in my video)and I was not satisfied with output not taste. After recording this dalcha video 3 times now I am satisfied with output :). Will share this dalcha video very soon. Do check out latest video   Matar Pulao.

 Here I am sharing special and simple rice items, latest  curry recipes do check out by just clicking link..

Jeera Rice(video link)

carrot rice

matar pulao(video link)

Hyderbadi Dum Biryani

Pudina rice

Kabuli chana curry(youtube link)

Foodie Monday Blog Hop

Taking this delicious and tasty Hyderabadi kaddu ka dalcha recipe  to #FoodieMondayBloghop fb group's #291Curriesfromthesouth theme . Here every week one member from group in alphabetical order will suggest 2 theme, others will vote. High voted theme will be selected, everyone prepare recipes according to theme. Today's theme was suggested by "Narmada" who blogs at "NamsCorner". She is one of my good friend, she shared many baking tips with me. I love her recipe a lot and  bookmarked her latest cakesicles, whole wheat pizza base recipes to try soon.

                  

                             Hyderabadi Kaddu ka dalcha 

Preparation time  - 10 minutes

soak time - 30 minutes

cook Time : 20 minutes

Serves : 4

Category : curry/regional 

Recipe Cuisine: Hyderabadi 

Main ingredients : chana dal, bottle gourd

Author : Aruna SarasChandra

Ingredients  

bottle gourd pieces - 1 cup

chana dal - 1/2 cup

toor dal - 1/2 cup

roughly chopped onions  - 1 cup

finely chopped tomatoes - 1/2 cup

ginger-garlic paste - 1 tsp 

tamarind - lemon size

green chillies -2 

curry leaves - 3 sprig

finely chopped coriander leaves - 1/4 cup

cumin seeds - 1 tsp  

coriander powder - 1 tsp

cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

red chilli powder - 1 tsp(adjust)

turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

garam masala - 1 tsp

oil -2 tsp

ghee - 2tsp

cardamom/ elachi - 1

clove- 1

dalchini/ cinnamon stick - 1 inch 

bay leaf - 2

red chilli -2(optional)

Instructions

1) Wash and soak both dals in enough water for 30 min.

2) Also soak tamarind in hot water for 15 min, remove its pulp and keep it aside.

3) Pressure chana dal and toor dal for 5 whistles, let the pressure comes down naturally. Check the dal consistency, it must smooth paste. Otherwise grind it smoothly or mash it well.

4) Now pressure cook bottle gourd by adding 1/4 cup of water and little salt for 1 whistle. Let the pressure comes down naturally and then keep it aside. Do not through bottle gourd cooked water. 

5) Mean while heat ghee and oil in a kadai, then add cumin seeds fry till you get nice aroma.

6) Then add elachi, clove, dalchini and bay leaf fry till you get nice aroma.

7) Later add green chillies, curry leaves fry for few seconds. Then add onions, little salt fry till it changes color color, later add ginger & garlic paste to it and fry it well.

8) Now add tomatoes mix everything well and cook it by closing lid till tomatoes become mushy.

9) Meanwhile add tamarind pulp in cooked and mashed dal paste and mix everything well.

10) Now add turmeric poser, red chilli powder, coriander & cumin powders, salt and mix everything well.

11)Later add cooked bottle gourd in onion tomato gravy, mix everything well. Close the lid and cook it on low flames for 10 min till bottle gourd absorbs gravy.

12) Now add dal & tamarind mixture to the above bottle gourd gravy mix everything well. 

13) Add 1 cup of water adjust water consistency as per requirement, add salt if need. Also add finely chopped coriander leaves, 2 springs of curry leaves as it is.

14) Close the lid and cook it for 10 min on low flames.

That's it our kaddu ka dalcha is ready to serve. Taking it into serving bowl and add 1 tsp of ghee to get extra taste 😋😋.

Hope you like this super tasty and regional Hyderabadi kaddu ka dalcha recipe . Give it a try and drop your comments in inbox. Do check out this recipe in our channel 

                   Kaddu ka dalcha (youtube link)

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Phaanu - Uttarakhand popular recipe prepared using horse gram

Phannu- Today's special recipe is from Uttarakhand cuisine's garhwali recipe - Phaanu prepared using horse gram.It is also known as Gahat dal which is popular dal recipe from kumaon regions of Uttarakhand.  Phaanu is very delicious, creamy, tasty and healthy dish prepared using horse gram. This is very nutritious recipe which gives lots of energy to stay fit in cool climates of hill stations. Horse gram is very healthy lentil having it regularly cures kidney stones, heart diseases and diabetes.  Horse gram in telugu known as uluvalu, in Hindi it is known as kulthi dal, in Tamil it is kollu, hurali kalu in Kannada. Ulava charu is popular recipe that is prepared in Andhra. This is very simple recipe and can also prepare easily. We have to soak horse gram overnight or 8 - 10 hrs, later we grind it and prepare thick pancake / dosa with half batter and remaining we use it for gravy, isn't it easy ;) . I felt it as pesarattu mukkala pulusu with some variations. We can also prepare this dal with toor dal, green moong dal too.

Taking this super healthy, regional and tasty Uttarakhand cuisine - Phaanu to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri she blogs at Mayuris jikoni.  Here admins will select one Indian state in alphabetical order. And they pick pairs for theme, pairs will share 2 ingredients, using that ingredients we will prepare recipe and post it in group album. Other group members will guess the secret ingredient. This month we choose Uttarakhand, i am paired with "Sujata Roy di"  who blogs at batterupwithsujata. Sujata di gave me hing and ginger as secret ingredients, in return i gave turmeric powder and cumin seeds. She prepared yummy and tasty aloo ke gutke recipe . Coming to Sujata di she is very talented chef who shares many traditional (Bengali cuisine) and authentic recipes. I can surely call her as "Sandesh Queen" as she prepare many sandesh varieties like sugar free pineapple sandesh, hazelnut chocolate sandesh which i am planning to prepare. Do checkout her space.. I got this recipe from here.
                                                                                                                                         

Lets start recipe..


  

                            UttaraKhand - Phaanu

Soak Time: 8 - 10 hrs
Preparation time : 10 min
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Serves : 4
Category : Curries / Regional
Recipe Cuisine: Uttarakhand
Main ingredient: Horse gram 
Author : Aruna SarasChandra


   


Ingredients

To grind

Horse gram -1 cup
ginger - 1 inch
garlic - 2 pods
green chilli -2

For curry

Oil - 3 tsp
ghee - 1 tsp
onion - 2
Tomato - 1 
red chilli powder - 1 tsp
coriander powder -1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
coriander seeds - 1/4 tsp
cumin seeds -1 tsp
red chilli - 2
coriander leaves - 1 tsp
salt as per taste

Instructions

1) Clean horse gram and soak overnight, later drain water and rub it skin. Skin will goes out easily i did not rubbed much.

2) Drain water completely and grind it coarsely by adding ginger, garlic and green chilli without adding any water. Take it into bowl add turmeric powder and salt mix it well.

3) Divide batter in two halves,one to prepare dosa / pan cakes and other for gravy. 

4) Heat tawa spread thick pan cake with coarsely grinded batter. Fry both sides till cook well. Prepare other pan cake and keep it aside.

5) Add 3 cups of water in remaining batter, heat a pan with oil and ghee. Add cumin seeds, jeera and red chillies, hing fry well then add finely chopped onion when starts changing color add tomatoes fry well.

                                         

6) Now add salt, red chilli powder and coriander powder mix well then add remaining grinded paste.

7) Cook the above well and low to medium flames for 10 minutes. If you feel gravy is very thick add some more water and cook for a minute.

8) Cut pancakes into pieces and add it in above gravy and cook it 5 minutes low to medium flames and then garnish it with finely chopped coriander leaves.

That's it Uttarakhand popular garhwali recipe - Phaanu is ready to serve. Serve it with hot steamed rice with dollop of ghee.

Tips

** Soaking horse gram for minimum 8 hrs is must.

** Do not grind dal too smooth, grind it coarsely smooth paste.

** You can prepare pancakes or even fritters too.

** Adjust water accordingly, as gravy becomes thick quickly.

Also check other popular recipes from different regions that i shared in my blog, by just clicking the link below pic..

                                                      Baingan ke lonje

                                   

                                Tripura - Mosdeng serma
                
                    Tamil Nadu - Sundakkai vatha kuzhambu

                    

                                     Punjabi Kadi
       
                     

                                          Hyderabadi veg dum biryani

                                            Rajasthani - Moong dal halwa

                                           Nagaland - Pumpkin Oambal

Odisha aloo palanga sabzi

                                

    

                 gummadikaya majjiga pulusu/ pumpkin curd gravy

                          

                 Hyderabadi Mirchi ka salan

                         Punjabi Dum aloo

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Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani || How to prepare veg dum biryani

Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani with step by step pics and tips - today's recipe is Hyderabad popular and most loved Vegetable dum biryani. It is very tasty and aromatic , it is generally prepared with basamati / long grain rice. It is generally prepared with meat and vegetables, today i am sharing veg version dum biryani. Today i used potato, carrot,beans and cauliflower, we can also use peas and paneer too.  So what is dum meaning - it is basically a foreign term for breathing(info from google). This dum biryani differs from regular biryani that we cook, it is prepared in pot sealed with dough on low flame by spreading veg gravy and cooked basmati in layers. If pot not available we can also prepare in kadai(i too prepared in kadai). We can have this biryani with any simple raita's or fruit based raita like pomegranate raita,  today i had it with boondi raita. Also check few rice varieties from my blog -  Green Peas Pulao, Jeera Rice,  Kashmiri Pulao, Coconut milk pulao, Carrot rice, Pudina rice,  Mango Rice, Ven Pongal,Restaurant style curd rice, Curry leaves powder rice.

      Hyderabad is popular for pearls, food and IT, it is popularly known as "the city of pearls ". Few popular places to visit @Hyderabad is Golconda Fort, Charminar, Salar Jung Museum, Hussain Sagar, Ramoji Film city, Chowmahalla Palace, Taj Falaka numa Palace, temples like Birla Mandir, Chilkur Balaji Temple, Iskcon temple, Yadagiri gutta, Sanghi temple, Peddamma Thalli temple, Sri Jagannath Mandir .. Masjids like Mecca Masjid, Medak Church is very popular church in Telangana. Hyderabad is also famous for shopping mainly for bangles @charminar and pearls,  best place for shopping is Koti, Monda market, Paradise etc. I have many memories which i never forgot in my life, i completed my  M.C.A @Nrupathunga College and worked here as a s/w. I got chance to taste many tasty foods and visit many popular places. Paradise biryani with Hyderabadi mirchi ka salan and Qubani ka meetha with ice cream @Hotel Paradise, idli sambar and cone ice cream @Swati hotel , punugulu and pani poori @Ameerpet are my favorite food. Few popular food from hyderabad is biryani, haleam, irani chai, Falooda, double ka meeta, sarva pindi, sakinalu etc.. 

  
                                     

Taking this aromatic and super tasty "Hyderabadi Veg Dum Biryani" to Shhhhh Secretly Cooking Challenge fb group started by Priya of Priyas Versatile Recipes and taken further till date by Mayuri she blogs at Mayuris jikoni.  Here admins will select one Indian state in alphabetical order. And they pick pairs for theme, pairs will share 2 ingredients, using that ingredients we will prepare recipe and post it in group album. Other group members will guess the secret ingredient.          

                                                                                                                                         

 For this month October we bloggers preparing Telangana Cuisine, I am very much of excited to share this dum biryani as it is one of my favorite. My partner for this month is Mayuri di, who blogs at  Mayuris jikoni, do visit her place for different varieties of food from different regions. I surely tell you that you will love her space. I mainly love her write up, she not only explain the recipe but also give full information about recipe and its origins, which i am trying to adopt in my blog :). Mayuri di gave me mace and curd,these two are main ingredients to prepare dum biryani.  I gave besan and coriander powder as two secret ingredients, with that she prepared attu-tunukala-tunaka-koora, i loved many recipes and bookmarked leopard patch spot bread, chocolate-phirni to prepare soon. 

let's start recipe..
                            
                           Hyderabadi Dum Biryani

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time : 40 to 50 minutes
Serves :  4 
Category : Biryani / Pulao
Recipe Cuisine: Telangana / Hyderabad
Main ingredient: Basmati / long grain rice
Author : Aruna SarasChandra


Ingredients

For cooking rice 

Basmati rice - 11/2 cup
water -  8 cups
oil- 1 tsp
ghee- 1 tsp
elachi -  2
clove - 4
cinnamon stick - 1 inch
bay leaf - 2
pepper - 5
star anise - 1
salt - 1 tsp

For gravy

oil- 3 tsp
ghee - 2 tsp
shah jeera - 1 tsp
elachi - 2
cloves - 2
bay leaf - 1
mace -2 
star anise -1 
cinnamon stick - 1 inch
onion - 3
green chili -2
mixed vegetables(potatoes, carrot, cauliflower, beans) - 1 cup
(you can also add peas and paneer too)
curd - 11/2 cup
ginger - garlic paste - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
red chili powder -1 tsp(adjust)
biryani masala powder - 1 tsp
salt - as per taste
saffron - 1 pinch
mint / pudina leaves - 1/4 cup (chopped)

Others

onion - 2 or fried onions/ birista - 1/4 cup
coriander leaves - 2 tsp
wheat flour - to seal

Instructions

1) Firstly soak basmati rice for 20 to 30 mints, in this mean time chop all the veggies and prepare birista/ fried onions . Chop onions fine to prepare birista or use readily available fried onions. For this we have to deep fry or shallow fry onions in oil. I shallow fried onion by heating oil in a kadai .

2) clean and chop all the veggies.

3) after 20 to 30 min Heat a kadai with oil and ghee then all spices mentioned in 'for cooking rice' one after other fry till you get nice aroma on low flame. Add water salt let it boil, then add soaked and washed basmati rice cook it for 7 to 10 minutes or till the rice is almost cooked on medium flames. Check rice with fingers if it starts breaking then switch off flames  and drain it using strainer and add some cold water, strain water and keep it aside openly.

3) Now we will start gravy preparation, for this heat a pan with 3 tsp of oil , 1 tsp of ghee . Then add all the spices(elachi, bay leaf,clove star anise, mace, cinnamon stick) fry till you get nice aroma. 

4) Now add onions and green chilli  fry till it changes color then add ginger garlic paste fry till raw smell goes out.

5) Now add all chopped veggies fry it for few minutes, then add  curd, turmeric , red chilli powder , biryani masala, salt mix everything well. Add 1 cup of water and cook on medium to low flames till veggies cook well.

6) Gravy is ready, now we will start layering biryani.  Take a wide kadai/pan/pot spread gravy for 1st layer, then spread rice on it spread pudina, fried onions and saffron water.

7) Now again spread remaining vegetable gravy on rice then spread rice remaining birista/fried onions, pudina/mint leaves , saffron , coriander leaves and 1 tsp of ghee.

8) Layering is completed now preparing thick wheat dough by adding water and seal the kadai well.(sealing pic is missing will update soon).

Cook the above sealed kadai for 10 minutes on ready. Now Hyderabadi Dum Biryani is ready to serve, i served it with boondi raita. Enjoy your day with your loved ones.

How to serve this Dum Biryani

-- Remove dough after leaving biryani aside for some time, do not mix the biryani just like other biryani. 

Tips

** Use basmati rice to get good taste,texture and aroma.

**Soak rice for minimum 20 minutes.

** As peas and paneer are not readily available i skipped it, you can use vegetables of you choice.

** You can also add fried cashew nuts and raisins.

** Layering biryani is must as it is dum biryani.

** There are few ways(which i know) to seal the kadai
1) using wheat flour dough.
2) use silver foil
3) close it with thick cotton cloth and close the lid tightly and keep weight on the lid. (will try to update pics soon).

** Use heavy bottom kadai / pot to prepare this biryani.

** After sealing biyani cook it on very low flames. 

** do not serve immediately after preparing. As per experience i am telling this biryani taste very good after preparation of few hours.

** Add ginger garlic paste according, as few ppl do not like it. 

** Use good quality basmati rice to get good taste and texture.

** If you feel rice over cooked and became sticky then add some more oil on it and keep it under fan.

These are some tips hope it is helpful to you while cooking.

Also check other biryani / pulao /rice items just by clicking the link below pic..

                 Hyderabadi Mirchi ka salan

                             Carrot rice

                                        Pudina rice

                                                Green Peas Pulao

                                           Jeera Rice

coconut rice

                                 

                                                               Mango Rice

Kashmiri Pulao

Coconut milk pulao

                             

Restaurant style curd rice

Pongal

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