Hyderabadi Dalcha

Ingredients:

1/2 kg Lamb/Beef Meat

2 Onions (finely chopped)

2 Tomato (finely chopped)

1 BottleGourd (Kaddu)

1 cup Tuvar dal/Chana Dal (Yellow lentils)

Raw Tamarind juice (imli ka khata)/Lemon juice

3 tbsp Ginger paste & Garlic paste

1 tbsp Red chilli powder

1/4 tbsp Turmeric powder

1 tbsp Gram masala

2 Cinnamon sticks (loung)

2 Green chillies

6-8 Curry leaves

Salt to taste

5 tbsp Oil

3 tbsp, finely chopped Coriander leaves.

  Method

Clean and wash the mutton pieces, add ginger and garlic paste & onion, pressure cook the for 3/4 whistles without adding too much of water,until the meat is tender, Then Keep aside.

Then again In a pressure cooker at medium high heat, add tuvar dal /chana dal, ginger garlic paste,Let pressure cook for about 15-20 minutes until the lentil is tender(paste),Keep aside.

In a large non-stick saucepan add oil at medium heat,

 Add tomatos, ginger garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder,green chilli and mix well.

Now after a couple of minutes add salt,do not cook on a high heat,simmer heat and cover the pan leave till smooth.

 You need to now stir it till tomatos gets smooth and mushy.

At this stage add 1 cup water and bottlegourd  in the pan.Then cover the pan let it cook until bottlegrourd half cook.

Than add the lentil paste,imli ka kahta, green chilli, gram masala,cinnamon sticks & curry leaves.

 Cover the pan leave for 20-25 minutes untill the oil appears on the bottom surface.

Remove from the heat.

 Garnish with coriander leaves & serve with Bagara-khana,plain rice,Sem ki phali,binis-ki-phalli..