Dalcha

Dalcha is basically lentils (dal) cooked with mutton, bottle guard. Dalcha is a Hyderabad-south Indian curry. This curry is served as a side dish with fried rice and mutton curry (one of my recipes posted previously).

Ingredients for dalcha:

Bottle guard (kaddu) ½ medium sized

Mutton 1/2kg (500 Gms.)

Yellow lentils (Chana ki dal) 1 cup

Tomatoes chopped 2 cups

Sliced onion 2 tsps.

Chopped green chilies ½ cup.

Salt 2 tsps.

Turmeric powder ½ tsp.

Oil ½ cup

Fresh ginger-garlic paste ½ tsp.

Curry leaves ½ cup.

Preparation of dalcha:

• Boil yellow lentils (Chana dal) in a pressure cooker add some salt, 1/2 cup green chilies, water.
• When the lentils are boiled mash or blend it in a blender and keep it aside.
• Boil mutton and keep it aside.
• Take the bottle guard, peel it, remove seeds and cut it into small pieces and keep it aside.
• In a big deep pan heat some oil and fry onions.
• Add fresh ginger-garlic paste, fry for 1 min.
• Then add bottle guard, tomatoes, add red chili powder, salt, turmeric powder and fry for a few sec.
• Add boiled meat.
• Add 1 glass of water and let it cook for 5 min.
• Now add boiled and mashed yellow lentils paste.
• Add curry leaves.
• Let it cook nicely like soup.
• Add coriander and remove it from flame.
• Serve Dalcha with hot fried rice and mutton curry.