DISH RESEARCH · Main dish

Dhokar Dalna

Bong Eats’ selected dhokar dalna finishes fried split-Bengal-gram cakes in a ginger-and-cumin-spiced potato gravy.

About Dhokar Dalna

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Bong Eats’ dhokar dalna combines fried Bengal-gram cakes with a warm, ginger-and-cumin-laced sauce. The source presents this Bengali dish for guests or special occasions.

Soaked split Bengal gram is coarsely ground with cake salt, sugar, green chillies and separate grinding water. Coconut, ginger paste and ground seasonings fry before the same lentil paste and supplied roasted peanuts are cooked into a dough-like ball.

The mixture is transferred to a greased surface, shaped and cut into diamonds while still hot. The cakes are fried until evenly brown, then set aside while the separate curry is made.

Whole spices temper mustard oil before potato cubes fry golden. Coconut, ginger paste and ground spices follow, then salt, sugar, tomato and slit green chillies; hot water forms the curry before the same fried cakes are lowered into it.

The gravy thickens while the cakes absorb some liquid. Ghee, Bengali garam masala and more slit green chillies finish the same pot.

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Dish type: Main dish
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Soak and strain the Bengal gram, then grind coarsely with cake salt, sugar, green chillies and separate grinding water. Heat the cake cooking oil, fry grated coconut and ginger paste, then the ground seasonings. Add the same lentil paste and supplied roasted peanuts and cook while scraping until it gathers into a dough-like ball. Transfer to a greased surface, shape, cut into diamonds and fry in the separate frying oil until evenly brown. Set aside. Heat mustard oil and temper the whole spices. Fry potato cubes golden, then coconut, ginger paste and ground spices, adding a splash of water if needed. Add curry salt and sugar, then tomato and slit chillies. Pour in the main hot curry water and lower in the same cakes. Bubble until the gravy thickens without reducing too far, then finish with ghee, Bengali garam masala and more slit green chillies.

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Ingredients in Dhokar Dalna

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Lentilsbase
Potatobase
Tomatosauce
Gingerseasoning
Cuminseasoning
Vegetable Oilcooking medium

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India

Cuisines & regions

Bengali Cuisine

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Cooking traditions: Bengali

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Dhoka’r Dalna