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Recipe: Jayanti's Lauki Chana Dal

September 11, 2023 13:02 IST

All sizes of bottle gourds or laukis or doodhis are flooding the market post the rains. It's therefore the best time to whip up Jayanti Soni's tasty and fast Lauki Chana Dal.

It's also a way to make sure your family eats more proteins.

The dish goes well with parathas or rotis and it's guaranteed to find a place on your list of comfort foods.

Before Jayanti moved to Mumbai, she lived in a Rajasthan-Gujarat border town named Bhinmal, where she grew up learning to make food that has influences of both states.

A first-rate cook, Hindi, singing and music are her other interests and in which she did her higher studies. These days she is singing a Marwari bhajan, Meethe Ras Se Bharyodi Radha Rani Lage, Mahne Kharo Yamunaji Ro Paani Lage (Radha rani, Krishna's consort, is so sweet that in contrast the waters of the Yamuna taste very salty).

Lauki Chana Dal

Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

Method

WATCH: How to make Lauki Chana Dal.

Photographs and video: Dhairya Soni

JAYANTI SONI