White Chick Peas / Vella Kadala Curry

Ingredients

•   Coconut oil - 2 tbsp
•   Onion - 1 medium sliced fine
•   Garlic cloves - 5 nos
•   Mustard - 1/4 tsp
•   Red chilies - 3
•   Curry leaves - 1 sprig

For Cooking

•   Kadala - 250 grms (soaked well 5-6 hours)
•   Onion - 1 medium chopped
•   Ginger - 1 inch piece crushed fine.
•   Garlic - 5  chopped
•   Chilies - 2 or 3 slit
•   Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
•   Curry leaves - few
•   Salt

For Roasting

•   Coriander - 2 tbsp
•   Chili (kashmiri) - 1 tbsp
•   Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
•   Garam masala - 1/4 tsp

Preparation

1)Put ingredients for cooking in pressure cooker and cook well. Take a ladle from the cooked gram and mash it well for your gravy.

2)Warm masala powder in a pan, putting coriander powder first, then turmeric and then chili and then garam masala. Turn off fire, and stir and toss further so that the hot pan doesnt burn the powders.

3)Open the pressure cooker when pressure is down, add the roasted powders and bring to a boil. check salt at this stage.

4)Add the mashed kadala to the gravy and boil the gravy down to the consistency you like.Turn off fire.

5)In a deep pan pour in oil, pop mustard and add the dry red chilies,curry leaves and fry well. Add the sliced onions and start frying them. when they start to brown, add the garlic cloves and fry further. Add this to the curry and mix well.