Last few
days my husband was asking me to make some DHOKAR DALNA OR LENTIL CAKE CURRY, but I
just avoided making it because to fry the DHOKA OR LENTIL CAKES need lots of oil.
Actually you need to deep fry the lentil cakes and that usually soaks lots of
oil. But this curry is a very famous curry and one of the tastiest so because
of this reason Bengali people can’t stop eating this dish. I got a very nice
idea from one of my close friend Archita - she gave me a nice idea. Instead of deep frying the DHoka’s I can bake it with
just few drop of oil. Believe me I prepared the Baked Dhoka’s which is so good that I didn't find any difference from the frying ones. So if you are also trying to
avoid excessive oil this way you can make perfect DHOKA.
Ingredients:
1.Chana dal
or Bengal gram: 1 cup.
2.One inch
ginger.
3.Salt and
sugar as per taste.
4.Few cumin
seeds.
5.Two green
chilies.
6.Pinch of
cumin powder.
7.Two table
spoon oil.
Process:
Wash and
soak the chana dal for 1 hour, now in a grinder blend the dal with ginger and
green chilies with some water.
Now in a
vessel and 1 ½ table spoon of oil, now allow it to hot then add the cumin seeds
let it crackle then add the chana dal paste with some salt sugar and cumin
powder.
Stir it till the chana dal mixture become dry completely.
Now grease one plate with some oil and add the dry chana dal paste
and spread across the plate proportionately.
Keep the plate in fridge for 10 mints. Now with a knife cut the Dhoka’s in some Rhombus size.
Now pre heat the oven 425 degree F, now grease one oven proof tray with
some oil and place the dhoka’s on the tray.
Now bake it for 10 mints now flip the dhoka’s and bake it another 10
mints (all the ovens are different so check after every 5 mints).
Now remove the tray from the oven and your BAKED DHOKA OR LENTIL
CAKE is ready, you can eat this with
plain rice and dal or make a normal Dhokar Dalna with this baked dhoka.
