Soup

 Dal fry

(3 to 4 portion)

Ingredients                                        Quantity

Rahar dal                                             150 gm

Dal fry

Oil                                                           2 tbsp

Crushed ginger                                     5 gm

Turmeric powder                                 1 tsp

Salt                                                         T/T

For masala         

Ghee/ Oil                                            2 tbsp

Cumin seed                                        ½ tsp

Chop onion                                         20 gm

G+G paste                                          1 tsp

Chop tomato                                     10 gm

Chop coriander                                 5 gm

Chop green chilly                             1 nos

Turmeric powder                             ½ tsp

Cumin powder                                  ½ tsp

Coriander powder                           ½ tsp

Water                                                   as required

Method

1. Pressure cook dal keeping all ingredients  as mention
2. In a wok heat oil or ghee crackle cumin seed until fragrance
3. Fry chop onions in it until slight brown then add green chilly and G+G paste and fry until fragrance
4. Add in chop tomato cook for 1 min and add turmeric powder stir, then coriander powder, cumin powder stir as necessary
5. Now cook until tomatoes gets soft and masala are well cooked add also water as required
6. Add in boil dal, boil dal with masala for 2 mins, switch off the gas, sprinkle coriander and now its ready to be serve hot with rice

KWATI

Kwati is a traditional Nepalese broth soup made with  9 varieties  of beans like Broad bean (Bakulla), Black eyed peas (Bodi), Bean (Simi), Rice bean (Masyang), Small peas, Soyabean (Bhatmass), Black gram beans (Maas ko dal) , Green gram (Moong). This dish is especially consume on the festival of Gun Punhi, the full moon day of Gunla the tenth month in the Newari Calendar. Its goes best as a broth soup both for vegetarians and non vegetarians as here you can cook some red meats tenders or bite pieces of mutton’s or lamb’s leg. Even it acts as a main course if flat bread is cooked in this soup. It is eaten as a delicacy and for its health  and nutritional benefit and ritual significance for Gun Punhi 

Recipie for Kwati

Overnight soaked 9  varieties of beans                        300gm            

Chopped onion                                                             30gm

Bay leaf                                                                        2nos

Ginger+ Garlic Paste                                                    1 ½ tea spoon

Salt                                                                              T/T

Cumin Powder                                                             1 tea spoon

Red Chilly Powder                                                       1 tea spoon

Turmeric Powder                                                         1 tea spoon

Ghee                                                                           2table spoon

Ajwain/ Carrom seed                                                    1 tea spoon

Chop Corriander                                                          few springs

Red meat tenders/ leg of lamb or mutton(Optional)       150gm

Method

Boil the overnight soaked beans by adding salt

In a pressure coker heat oil add bay leaf until fragrance

Fry onion for 1min and add turmeric powder

Add ginger garlic paste and fry for few seconds

Add all spice now except ghee and ajwain and cook for few seconds but don’t let it burn

Add boiled beans, meat(for bursting meaty flavours) and cover the lid of pressure cooker until 4-5 blows of whistle until beans get incorporated with flavours and spices

Release the lid and you can also add flat bread and cook for 4 mins.

then lastly temper it with ajwain and ghee

garnish it with coriander.