Habisha Dalma

Ingredients
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1 cup Mung Dal
1 cup of raw Jackfruit cut into small pieces (kancha panasa)
1 raw banana - chopped into small pieces
4 Saru or Arbi - peeled and chopped into small pieces
1 table spoon ghee
1 tea spoon cumin seeds
2 green chillies
1 piece ginger - grated
1 tea spoon of dry cumin seeds roasted and powdered
2-3 bay leaves
Salt to taste
Method:
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Take a pan and heat it. Add the mung dal and dry roast it until it starts changing color to light redish orange.
Remove from heat and soak the dal in water for 30 minutes or more.
Take a pan, add the dal and salt and 4 times the water and let it boil for 15 min.
If the dal looks a little bit cooked, add the vegetables let it cook for another 25 moniutes or so till the vegetables are cooked properly.
Add salt to taste.
Take another pan, add the clarified butter and cumin seeds, bay leaves and the grated ginger. once the seeds splutter, pour the mixture on the dal.
Add some dry roasted and powdered cumin seeds and mix well in the dal.
Goes well with:
Ghia anna (steamed rice with clarified butter ) or hot steamed rice.
it has to be consumed fresh the same day.