MUNG DAL-PALAK CHEELA / SAVORY PANCAKE WITH MUNG DAL AND SPINACH/ A HEALTHY BREAKFAST
If you are a fitness freak like me, then this MUNG DAL PALAK CHEELA (savoury pancake) is a delightful meal to kick start your day. Dals or lentils are the staple and being healthier these are the first choice for my everyday menu. I cook a variety of dals in the main course everyday but for a change, I like to make something different with them in the breakfast
To make this mung dal cheela, the preparations begin beforehand by soaking yellow mung dal for 3-4 hrs. Soaked dal is ground to add a few veggies like onions, carrots, and some greens like spinach and coriander leaves. A few aromatics like ginger and chilies and some regular spices are added to increase the taste. A batter is prepared by combining all the ingredients and spreading a ladleful on the hot pan to cook the cheela on both sides. These healthy cheelas can be enjoyed with chutneys of your taste
Prep Time- 4 hrs
Cook time – 15 minutes
Makes – 4-5 cheelas
Course – Breakfast/Evening Snack
Author – Bharti Dhawan
ALL YOU NEED
• Yellow mung dal (washed and soaked)- 1 cup (150 gms)
• Water for rinsing and soaking dal – as required
• Water for the batter – 1/2 cup
• Washed and finely chopped palak (spinach) – 1 cup (200 gms)
• Finely chopped coriander leaves – 1 tbsp
• Finely chopped onions – 1 medium
• Finely chopped ginger – 1 tsp
• Chopped tomatoes – 1 medium
• Finely chopped fresh red chilly – 1 tsp
• Finely chopped green chillies – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp or to taste
• Red chilly flakes – 1/2 tsp or to taste
• Oil/ghee – 3-4 tsp
■ DIRECTIONS
1- Firstly, grind mung dal to a fine consistency
2- Transfer ground dal to a mixing bowl and add all the ingredients except oil/ghee
3- Mix well and keep at rest for 15 minutes
4- Heat a pan or Tawa and drop 1/2 tsp Oil. Spread this on the pan and add 1 ladleful of mung dal batter. Spread the batter on hot Tawa in the circular motion
5- When 1 side is cooked, sprinkle some oil on top and flip the pancake. Press gently all around with a spatula to cook nicely all around
6- Make all cheelas like this and serve with green chutney, groundnut chutney, or imli ki chutney (tamarind chutney)
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