Chana dal sundal recipe with stepwise pictures.Chana dal sundal or Kadalai paruppu sundal is one easy and quick sundal recipe to make for navaratri.
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Chana Dal Sundal Recipe – Ingredients
Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2
Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Recipe Category: Sidedish | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian
Channa Dal – 1 cup
Coconut – 3 tbsp
Ginger scrapped – 1 tsp (optional)
Salt – as required
Oil – 1.5 tsp
To temper:
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Urad dal – 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves – few
Red chillies – 2
Hing – a generous pinch
Method:
- Soak channa dal in water for an hour. Then pressure cook chana dal with 1.5 cups for 1-2 whistles or until it turns soft but not mushy. Keep aside.In a pan heat oil, add mustard seeds, urad dhal allow it to crackle. Add hing, curry leaves and red chillies fry for a minute.
- Then add the cooked chana dal, scrapped ginger and required salt. Mix well until its combined. Add coconut, give a quick stir and switch off.
Transfer to serving dish and serve hot!
My Notes:
- Pressure cooking will be ok too but take care not to make channa dal mushy.
- Adding ginger always helps to avoid gastric problems with most lentils esp with chana dal.
- You can replace red chillies with green chillies also.
Delicious sundal,my fav too…ennaku oru thonai sundal kidaikuma?
Your clicks are perfect and they are inviting……
this looks so nice..loved the clicks :). i have heard of this dihs but never tried.. urs says i need to soon 🙂
I like thonnais very much too …nice clicks …looks yum
nice n tasty sundal..
once i tried this sundal…yummy one!! dal looks very perfect!
Never knew we could make sundal from chana dal..!!! Just saw it in another blog too…This looks healthy & delish…Bookmarked 🙂
Prathima Rao
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looks perfect and healthy dear 🙂
floating sundals! Looks Nice!
Yummy sundal .. lucky you .. able to get these thonnais for presentation 🙂
Vardhini
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Sharmi r u in Chennai .. if s u shd def make it to my house for Navrathri am busy with my golu preparations .. n this is the quick n easiest sundal n my fav too it helps me in case of sudden guests during odd times..love it..
@Kalpana: I wish I was there in Chennai now 🙂 Thanks for the invite, thats a lovely gesture!!
Very healthy and delicious sundal.
cute n lovely dish..beautiful clicks too….
One of my fav sundal, quick and easiest sundal…love it..
Its not very easy to cook the channa dal perfectly always. Nice that you got it perfect!
A very tasty dal creation!
My all time fav sundal..
looks amazing..although ive never really ahd..shall give it a go sometime
Looks very nice.
Delicious recipe ~ will make for great guilt free snack for anytime 🙂
USMasala
Oh yes.. Sundal season is starting soon! 🙂
Nice pics as always Sharmi.
Also, belated birthday wishes 🙂
during our child hood days among all the aunties in our street my mom is the onlly one makes this channa dal sundal perfectly.Even iwas thinking to post the recipe of moong dal sundal/channa dal sundal.
Yours are perfectly done and beautifully captured.
Nice Presentation Sharmi.
Just mouthwatering…looks so easy to prepare and delicious!
Looks delicious! Am waiting to see all the yummy recipes this navarathri..Lovely clicks!
simple and delicious sundal..nice clicks..
Healthy and yummy snack,lovely clicks
Luscious sundal.. I always love this the most among sundal recipes..
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Erivum Puliyum
We keep gollu at my Mom's place every year and this year my Mom is here with and me and she missed it.Your sundal made us feel nostalgic. Very nicely done !!
I love this kinda sundal and am lucky as Navrathri is very near, this one becomes frequent in my home n my neighbourhood..Lovely spread, esp with those authentic dhonnai…Fab
Thonnai la paarkave super aa iruuku 🙂
Hi Sharmee,this is my first time here in ur Yummy site of loads of recipes.
Hi Sharmi,this is my first time here and Thanks for sharing this Kadalai Paruppu Sundal,Nice to know a fellow Food-site from Tamil Nadu.
ooh I want one of those dhonais – looks SUPERB!!!!
Priya
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perfect and delicious..
Wow this sundal looks amazing, and drooling clicks…
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Looks delicious:-)