27/12/2020 15:10

Recipe of Perfect Lentil Ball Gravy

by Ray Lawrence

Lentil Ball Gravy
Lentil Ball Gravy

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lentil ball gravy. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lentil Ball Gravy is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Lentil Ball Gravy is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook lentil ball gravy using 30 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Lentil Ball Gravy:
  1. Take Lentil Balls:
  2. Take 1 . Toor Dal - 1/2 cup (Wash and soak for 30 minutes)
  3. Get 2 . Dry red chilli - 4
  4. Take 3 . Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
  5. Prepare 4 . Curry leaves - 5 to 6
  6. Get 5 . Salt - as needed
  7. Prepare 6 . Onion - 1/4 cup chopped
  8. Prepare 7 . Coconut grated - 1 tbsp (Optional)
  9. Take For Gravy:
  10. Get 1 . Tamarind - 1 lemon size (soak in warm water for 15 to 20 minutes)
  11. Make ready 2 . Turmeric - 1 tsp
  12. Make ready 3 . Chilli powder - 1 tbsp
  13. Make ready 4 . Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
  14. Take 5 . Salt - as needed
  15. Get 6 . Coriander leaves - for garnish
  16. Prepare To Grind :
  17. Take 1 . Coconut - 1/3 cup grated
  18. Get 2 . Fennel - 1 tsp
  19. Get 3 . Cumin - 1/2 tsp
  20. Make ready 4 . Shallot onion - 1
  21. Get 5 . Water - 1/4 cup
  22. Prepare To Temper:
  23. Get 1 . Oil - 2 tbsp (preferred gingelly oil)
  24. Make ready 2 . Tempering papad - 1 ball (optional)
  25. Take 3 . Methi seeds - 3/4 tsp
  26. Take 4 . Curry leaves - few
  27. Make ready 5 . Shallots - 5 cut into cubes
  28. Take 6 . Tomato - 1 chopped finely
  29. Make ready 7 . Mustard - 1/2 tsp
  30. Get 8 . Garlic - 10 sliced
Steps to make Lentil Ball Gravy:
  1. To prepare lentil balls grind the soaked toor dal with red chilli, curry leaves,fennel seeds and salt to coarse paste. Don't pour the dal soaked water. Keep this for late use.
  2. Add chopped onion, grated coconut to this. Mix thoroughly and make it into small balls and keep aside. - For this proportions it gives around 10 balls.
  3. Heat gingelly oil in kadai add mustard seeds, tempering papad, methi seeds and curry leaves. Let the mustard to temper. Once done add shallots and garlic. Saute until garlic changes to light golden colour.
  4. Add chopped tomatoes to this and cook until it turns mushy.
  5. Now add chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder with some salt. Saute a bit.
  6. Squeeze the tamarind water and add this. Add the soaked dal water with this. Add another cup of water to this. Close with lid and cook in high flame for 8 to 10 minutes.
  7. Meanwhile grind coconut with fennel seeds and cumin seeds to nice paste.
  8. Add this to the boiling gravy and let it cook another 5 minutes in medium flame.
  9. This is the time to add the lentil balls. Add slowly one by one. Don't pour everything at one time. Don't stir the balls, it may get break. Let it cook until balls started to float on the top. If you are not sure you can steam the lentil balls before adding in steamer or idli maker.
  10. Adjust the salt and switch off the flame once the balls starts floating. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with steamed rice.

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