Dahi Bhalle Recipe
How to make soft Dahi Bhalle at home
Ingredients
Ingredients for Bhalle
- 1 cup Urad Dal
- 1 cup Moong dal
- ½ tbsp salt (as required)
- Oil (as required for deep frying)
- enough water for soaking
Dahi Bhalla Topping
- 1 cup Dahi (Curd)
- 1 tbsp Green Chutney
- 1½ tbsp Tamarind Chutney
- ½ tbsp Roasted Cumin Seeds powder
- Salt (as per taste)
- Chaat Masala
- 4-5 Chopped Cashew
- 4-5 Raisins
Instructions
Method of making Bhalle
- Rinse 1 cup of urad dal and moong dal, soak both lentils overnight or 7-8 hours.
- After that, add ½ cup of water in the bowl of dals, grind it with the help of grinder or mixer and make a thick batter.
- Now, add ½ tbsp of salt in the batter.
- Then, beat or whisk it until you can see fluff in the batter or the quantity of batter little more than before that means batter is now ready for deep frying.
- Heat oil in the pan.
- You can also add a small drop of batter in oil for checking the right temperature of deep frying.
- After that drop batter with the help of your hands in the hot oil. (The size of Bhalla is depended on you ).
- When it turns crispy and little golden then flip the other side of Bhalla.
- When it's done then drain it in the separate plate.
- Fry all Bhalla in the same way.
- Then soaked them in the water for 9-10 minutes.
- Gently, squeeze all of them.
Making of Dahi Bhalla
- Place Bhalla on the plate and add plain curd on to it.
- Then add green chutney and tamarind chutney on it.
- Sprinkle some bhuna jeera powder (roasted cumin powder), Salt, red chili powder, chaat masala on it.
- then garnish it with raisins and some chopped cashew. This will give little sweet crunch in it.
- Dahi Bhalla is now ready to serve.
Notes
- The main thing for making soft Bhalla is beat/whisk the batter that makes bhalla soft and tasty.
- The batter of lentils should be thick.