"DALMA"

Dalma is a recipe which we all odias crave for. All odias most fav and when they go for a tour and come back and you ask for what to eat the easy and simple ans  will come "Bhaata and Dalma"the most easiest delicious and healthy recipe ever.......
 Ingredients required ----

50 gms of red pumpkin

4\5 pointed gourd

4\5 teasel gourd

50 gms yam

4\5 col cassias

3 eggplants

2 cups arhar dal

2 tbl spoon of ghee

2 tbl spoon whole cumin

5 red chillies

1\2 cup grated coconut

1\2 inch of ginger

salt to taste

1\4 th teaspoon turmeric powder

Next how to make this delicious recipe

Actually it was prepared in a deep silver pot  or mud clay earlier but now a days people are very much familiar with pressure cooker which is much easier and takes less time....

first wash dal........ cut all the vegetables in cubes....... keep aside

put a wok on gas stove..... add a and 1\2 tbl spoon whole cumin and 2 red chilly.....roast them

and grind them and make a powder of good texture.,.....

take your cooker add washed arhar dal vegetables ,2 glass of water ,salt to taste,haldi and crushed ginger..... cover the lid.......  when you will notice the whistle of the cooker is about to blow you immediately switch off the gas(because the dal should not be over cooked).... and release the whistle after 3 mns........

if it needs to be cooked little more you can cook for another 5 mns it will be perfectly done ( because we always prefer dal in dalma shouldnt be overcooked)

heat a kadhai with ghee mentioned above...

add remaining whole cumin and red chilly

when it starts to splutter add this into boiled dal and veggies and immediately cover it as the aroma of ghee chonk will remin inside and you can take its majja while eating......

finally add roasted cumin red chilly powder and grated coconut....

serve hot with either steamed rice\paratha\puri\luchhis anything goes best with this yummy Dalma.....