Dal Makhani

Ingredients

½ cup udad dal with skin (Black gram)

2 tbsps chana dal

2 tbsps rajma
1 piece of cinnamon
3 cardamoms

¼ cup milk cream (malai)

1 tbsp ghee

5 flakes of garlic sliced

¼ tsp red chilli powder

½ tsp garam masala powder

1/ tbsp butter

Salt to taste

Instruction

• ·         Soak the dals and rajma overnight.  Pressure cook it with 2 ½ cups water, salt, cinnamon and cardamom  for 18 minutes. Let it cool and then open.
• ·         Keep the pressure cooker on low fire, add the milk cream, red chilli powder and garam masala powder.
• ·         Heat ghee in a pan, add the sliced garlic and let it brown. Add this to the dal and remove from fire. Put the butter on top before serving.
• ·         This can be served with parathas or jeera rice.