Chickpeas Kabuli Chana Sundal Recipe
Chickpeas Kabuli Chana Sundal Recipe Ghugri. It is known as ‘sundal‘ in Tamil and ‘gugari / ghugari‘ in Kannada. South Indian festival recipe made in Karnataka, Tamilnadu. During the Ganapati festival as well as 10 day dasara festival and other festivals, this sundal / gugri / sauteed chickpea dish is made.It is offered to the deity as ‘Naivedya’ and then distributed to the devotees as prasad. For the sundal recipe given below, you can use precooked canned chick peas or dry chickpeas for this recipe.
Ingredients
How to make stir fried Chickpeas – Ghugri – Sundal
Ingredients for stir fried chickpeas – kabuli chana Sundal – Ghugari
- Cooked kabuli chana
- Cooked drained kabuli chana
- Cooked Chickpeas – 1 cup
- salt – 1 1/2 tsp or to taste
- Lime juice – 2 tsp
- Coriander Cilantro leaves – 1 tbsp chopped
- Tempering ingredients
- Vegetable oil – 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Hing asafotida – 1/4 tsp
- Curry leaves – 8 – 10
- Green chili – 1 or 2 slit in pieces or chopped finely
- Optional ingredients
- Black Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
- Red chili powder – 1/4 tsp
- sugar optional – 1/4 tsp
- Fresh grated coconut optional – 2-3 tbsp
Instructions
Making Stir fried chickpeas – Gugri – Sundal
- Heat oil in a pan. Keep heat low.
- Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Let them splutter.
- Add hing (asafotida), curry leaves
- Add chickpeas. stir.
- Add all the other ingredients except lime juice. Cook for 5 minutes while stirring.
- Add lime juice, chopped cilantro and mix well.
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- Kabuli chana sundal is ready. Serve hot or cold.
Notes
Tips
- You can refrigerate and use chana sundal for 3-4 days. It is good to eat at a snack or as a side dish for any meal.
- You may add desiccated coconut instead of fresh grated coconut. Traditionally, small coconut pieces are added to sundal or ghugari.
- You can also make ghugari with other lentil varieties such as chana dal, whole mung beans or split mung dal, brown chickpeas or black eyed beans.
- The soaking time will differ for all types of lentils, it will be less than chickpeas. It can also be made with peanuts.