Gujarati Special Healthy Dal Dhokri

ENJOY THURSDAY DINNER SPECIAL DAL DHOKRI-

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We Welcome you with Family and Friends to Enjoy Dal Dhokli

Daal Dhokli

Here is what you need:

For the Dhokli: 1.5 cup wheat flour,
1 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp chili powder, 1 tbsp besan flour, a handful of chopped coriander leaves, salt and a pinch of sugar to taste.

For the Daal: 1.5 cups Tuver daal – cooked in the pressure cooker till soft.
1 large tomato, ginger-jalapeño- chopped, salt,turmeric, dhania-jeera powder, jaggery or brown sugar, coriander leaves. For the tempering, you will need, mustard seeds, dry red chilis, methi seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves,and cloves, some peanuts and oil.

Note: Daal-Dhokli tastes the best when made right before serving…around half an hour to 45 minutes before.

Make the Dhokli dough: Mix the flours with the spices and the coriander leaves. Add Hot water and knead into a semi-stiff dough, almost similar to the one you make for Puris. Cover and set aside.

Cook the tuver daal until soft. In a deep pot, take some oil, add the mustard seeds, dry chili, methi seeds, asafoetida, curry leaves,peanuts and cloves. Now add the chopped tomato, jalapeño and ginger. Stir well. Add the daal and enough water for the dhoklis to cook in. Don’t make it too thick or too thin. Add the rest of the spices and let this come to a boil.
Meanwhile make the dhoklis by rolling out the dough, take a knife and cut out diamond shapes that are neither too thick or thin. Drop these dhoklis one by one into the daal. Cook unil soft.

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Memories are like leftovers….stored, as Thomas Fuller said, in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

There’s a little corner of the blogosphere where we revisit all those smells, tastes, and sounds of our childhood that we picked up, stored away, and almost forgot about.

Daal Dhokli was a dish from our childhood almost forgotten about. It is something you’d find regularly in Gujarati homes, rarely in a restaurant. After reading this post, it would became an obsession. 

“From the moment we laid eyes on it, I wanted to recreate that little ball of dal and rice. Correct that – I didn’t just want it – I yearned for it!”

We yearned for it, prepared it, and enjoyed every bite. Thirty minutes in the kitchen, and our shop was enveloped in a familiar aroma that took me back in a time machine.

In A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman says:

Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

After tasting it for the first time, we were totally bowled over.

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