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Cholar Dal

Split Bengal gram with warm spices, ghee and optional coconut, nuts and raisins.

Cholar Dal — illustrative food image

About Cholar Dal

Dassana Amit's cholar dal is a Bengali split-Bengal-gram preparation adapted from The Calcutta Cookbook. She presents it as a festive dish associated with Durga Puja, weddings and other celebrations.

Cinnamon, green cardamom and cloves are pounded for the tempering, which also contains Indian bay leaf, cumin seeds and dried red chilli. Ghee carries the spices into the cooked dal.

Fried coconut, golden raisins and cashews are optional additions. The dal is served with steamed rice, its grains remaining distinct within a slightly thick, spiced base.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Milk.

Optional additions: Cashew.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Cholar Dal

Dassana Amit's Bengali cholar dal adapted from The Calcutta Cookbook.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Split Bengal gram: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual98 split/husked Bengalgram, not other pulse.
  • Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual38/99/121/127 soak/cook and adjustmentwater consolidated.
  • Golden raisins (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual100 explicitly optional.
  • Cashews (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Cashew source-confirmed. Actual101 explicitly optional.
  • Turmeric powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Sugar (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual103 retained optional per explicit77-78 omission, original sugar over jaggery49.
  • Cumin powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual104/140 separate from cuminseed.
  • Red chilli powder: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual105/140 generic redpowder.
  • Indian bay leaf: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual107 tejpatta.
  • Cumin seeds: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Dried red chillies: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Asafoetida (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual110/148 expressly may omit; full compoundedhing product/cereal formula unknown, no Wheat guessed.
  • Ginger (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual111 optional per71 omission.
  • Fresh coconut (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual112 original fresh chopped/grated, explicitly skippable25/74; no desiccated alternate79-80.
  • Ghee: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed. Actual113 rich original clarifiedbutter option over oil.
  • Cinnamon: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Cloves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Green cardamom: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Prepared steamed rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual144 offered plain steamedrice over luchi/kachori plate; no upstream hidden water/spices invented.
  • Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Method48/131 explicit salt omitted ingredientcard, retained.

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AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.

Sources & references
  1. Dassana Amit, Veg Recipes of India - Cholar Dal