Ingredients :

1 kg black channa
4 onions, sliced
2 raw bananas, boiled and chopped
10 flakes of garlic, crushed
1 piece of ginger, crushed
1 tablespoon Goan sambhar masala
1 coconut, grated
Marble-sized ball of tamarind in 1 cup water
Pinch of sugar

Preparation :

Boil the channa in salt water and keep aside. Boil 2 raw bananas and keep aside. In a frying pan, saute the onion along with ginger and garlic.

Mix the sambhar masala in the grated coconut and add this to the pan. Add the boiled channa and banana pieces, sugar and tamarind water.

Add salt if required. Cook over slow fire.

Posted By: Cristina, Goa.

02/02/2006