Black Gram Dal with Cream

Ingredients:

Black gram dal    -  1 cup(With skin)
Rajma                 -  1 table spoon
Green chilies        -  1 nos
Onion                  -  1 no
Tomatoes            -  2 nos
Ginger                 -  1 inch
Garlic                  -  1 full
Ghee                   -  1 table spoon
Jeera                   -  1 tea spoon
Coriander powder-  1 tea spoon
Turmeric powdoer-  1 tea spoon
Red chili powder  -  1 tea spoon
Fresh cream         -  2 table spoons
Fresh curd           -  2 table spoons
Garam masala      -  1 tea spoon
Sugar                   -  1 tea spoon
Salt to taste

1.  Wash, soak together, black gram dal and rajma for 8 hrs.
2.  Pressure cook the soaked dal along with 1/2 tea spoon of salt till soft.
3.  Boil water in a bowl.  Remove from stove, add the tomatoes with out cutting them.  Keep the bowl covered for a few mins.  Remove from water peel the tomatoes and grind them into a paste.
4.  Grind together ginger and garlic.
5.  Heat ghee in a kadai, add jeera and once they turn colour and crackle add the finely chopped onions.
6.  After the onions turn transparent, add the ginger garlic paste and stir fry till the ghee splits.
7.  Now add salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder, curd, fresh cream, red chili powder and sugar.
8.  Stir continuously till the ghee splits again.  It will take a few mins.
9.  Add the mixture to the cooked dal mixture, also add the garam masala and allow the dal to boil for 5 - 8 mins stirring occasionally.
10.Serve hot with rice/ roti.