Gojha or chana dal Fara

 Gojha or chana dal Fara

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Today's dish is belong to state UP and Bihar which is Chana dal Fara or gojha is steamed lentil chana dal stuffed dumplings. Gojha is a gujhiya shaped dumplings made from wheat flour (atta) and some other states it's made from rice flour . You can make it without oil or less oil. Gojha can cook two ways by boiling in water it and other one by steam it . Both ways are oil free and good for health as chana dal is full of nutrition. 

If you add some crispness in it you can fry it with mustard seed and curry leaves.  Both ingredients make it more delicious and crisp. 

Today I'm going to make it with wheat flour. To make the recipe easy I post all picture step by step . So let's start the recipe of gojha or Fara.

PREPRATION TIME - 20 minutes

COOK TIME - 40 minutes

TOTAL TIME - 60 minutes

SERVINGS - 4 TO 5 

Ingredients 

For dough 

Wheat flour - 2cup

Salt according to your taste 

Water to knead the flour

For stuffing 

Chana dal - 1cup

Chopped onion - 1/2 cup 

Garlic - 7to8 cloves 

Green chilies - 7to8 nos

Fresh coriander leaves 

Salt according to your taste 

Ginger chopped - 1/2 tbs

Turmeric powder - 1/2tbs

Garam masala - 1/2 tbs

Asofatida - 1/4tbs

For fried gojha

Mustard seed - 1/2tbs

Some curry leaves 

oil - 2tbs

Chaat masala - 1/2 tbs

Coriander leaves for garnishing

Method 

1-First of all we soaked chana dal 4 -5 hours or whole night. 

2- Take a blender jar and put in chana dal and garlic clove. Blend it. Add water if required but don't add too much water as we required thick paste.

3- Chana dal paste should not be blend too much because we want some dardara paste for stuffing. 

4- Now we will add gram masala,  turmeric powder, coriander leaves, chilies, salt, asofatida, chopped ginger and onions in chana dal paste.

5- Mix all the ingredients very well and keep it aside.

6- Now we will prepare the dough by kneading the wheat flour by using water as required. Take the rest to the dough for 10 minute to make it smooth and soft. 

7- Take a small ball size dough and roll it thick not too much but little thick

and put a spoonful paste of chana dal. Fold the roti in hemisphere size and seal the edges of it.

8- Make all the gojha as we prepared one. 

9- Now you can cook it two ways by steaming it or boiling in water. 

10- For boiling gojha take water in a deep pan and let the water boil. When water start the boiling put gojha in it one by one. Water should be boiled continuously. When all the gojha cook strain all  the water and put all the gojha separately.

11- For steaming the gojha put all the gojha on the steaming plate and allow them to cook in boiler cooker or you can use idli stand for steaming it. 

12- Once gojha cooked very well allow them to cook.

13- Cut them in in to small pieces. 

14 For fry the gojha take a pan and heat oil in it. Let's mustard seed crackle, add curry leaves and all gojha pieces in it. Fry for 4-5 minutes. Sprinkle some Chaat masala and garnished with some chopped fresh coriander leaves .

15- Gojha are ready to serve.  Serve it hot with tomato chutney or coriander leaves chutney.

I hope you like this recipe.

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