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One fatefull day I was surfing on pinterest looking for new recipes to try out, when a recipe caught my attention. That recipe was Dal Dhokli and it sounded like perfection, I love curry and love dough and this basically is a curry with small pieces of dough in it. I decided I had to give this a try and quickly fell in love with it. A few tries later and I had adapted the recipe to my tastes and now I finally am sharing it here on my blog as well. I hope you all love this curry as much as I do!
This recipe is based on Spice up the Curry her Dal Dhokli Recipe
Ingredients
For the Dal:
- Red Bell Pepper – 2
- Tomatoes – 3
- Lentils or pigeon peas – 265 gram / 1 cup
- Onion – 1
- Coconut Milk – 1 can/ 400 ml/ 1 1/2 cup
- Water – 250 ml/ 1 cup
- Bouillon Cube – 1
- Bay Leaf – 2
- Cumin – 2 teaspoons
- Sugar – 2 teaspoons
- Turmeric – 1 1/2 teaspoon
- Fenugreek Seeds – 1 teaspoon (optional)
- Clove – 1 teaspoon
- Cinnamon – 1 teaspoon
- Ginger – 1 teaspoon
- Lemon Juice or citric acid – 1/2 – 1 teaspoon
- Fresh Cilantro/ coriander – 1 teaspoon (optional)
- Coriander powder – 1 teaspoon
- Cayenne pepper – 1/2 teaspoon
- Mustard Seeds – 1/2 teaspoon (optional)
- Garam Masala – 1/2 teaspoon
For the Dhokli:
- Whole Weat Flour – 100 gram/ 3/4 cup
- Turmeric Powder – 1/2 teaspoon
- Cayenne pepper – a pinch
- Black Pepper – a pinch
- Salt – 1/2 teaspoon
- Oil – 1 teaspoon
- Water – 1/3 cup
Method
- Start with making the dough for the dhokli. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl. If the dough is too sticky add more flour, if the dough is too dry add more water. Continue until it has a nice consistency, that doesn’t stick to your hands, but isn’t too dry to kneed.
- Set aside to rest and get started on the dal.
- Slice and dice the onion, red bell peppers and tomatoes in tiny pieces.
- Heat some oil in a wok and bake the onion and the fenugreek seeds until the onion is translucent.
- Then add the red bell pepper and tomatoes and bake for a few minutes.
- Add the cup of water and the bay leaf and let it cook.
- Combine the spices and the bouillon cube in a small bowl and mix well.
- Now add the coconut milk and spices to the dal and let it cook while you continue with the dhokli.
- Pick up the dough. Cover a cutting board with flour and put the dough on there. Put some flour on your rolling pin and roll the dough flat. Make sure it’s really flat. Then with a knife slice it in tiny squares.
- Go back to the curry and the lentils to the dal and mix well.
- Start adding the dhokli, add a bunch of the dhokli, but not all of them at the same time. Add as many dhokli as you can, but make sure they don’t touch each other. After a minute or so add the next batch. Continue until all the dhokli are in the dal and then cook for another 10 minutes.
- Enjoy your dal dhokli!
Pictures
All the dough ingredients in a bowl
After mixing and kneading the dough
Tomatoes and red bell peppers sliced and diced
Baking the onion and fenugreek
Add the tomatoes and red bell pepper to the pan/ wok
Add water and bay leaves
Combine the spices
After addign the spices and coconut milk
There’s our dough!
Rolled out, flat dough
That’s how flat it should be
Slicing the dough
More slicing
Dhokli in a bowl
Add the dhokli’s to the dal
Dal Dhokli!
Variation Tips
This dish is already perfect, no need to change anything.
I’ve never tried anything like this. The only home made dough I’ve ever made is in my bread machine to make bread or cinnamon roll. This looks amazing though.
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While I love cooking and baking, I don’t make dough often as for some reason I don’t like making it. But this dough is really easy to make and it’s impossible to mess up, although I do usually end up with more dough than I planned to make, but that’s okay.
Oh I love cinnamon rolls, I actually can make those, although I don’t make them often. Might have to make them sometimes for a recipe post. A bread machine sure sounds handy when making dough.
Wow the dough actually looks pretty simple for this one! Curry stirfries look totally amazing. Thanks for sharing LolA!
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I wa safraid I would mess up the dough when I first made it, but it’s really simple and easy to make. I do often add too much water and then have to add some extra flour as well, but eventually I get the right texture for the dough. This is one of my favourite curries, so yummy!
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Another mouth watering recipe, and it looks simple enough in spite of all the ingredients, I already have most of them. Thanks for sharing !
PS : I had lunch at an Indian restaurant on wednesday and thought about you, it was yummy ! And I think you typed coconut “oil” instead of “milk” in the list of ingredients 😉
Thanks! The first time I made this I was pretty sure it would go wrong with that dautning ignredient list and throwing dough in a suace, but it’s pretty simple once you start making it. And that’s good to hear you already have most ingredients, I hope you give it a try 🙂
Oh yum, your lunch sounds yummy! I take that as a compliment that I cook/share enough indian food that you think of me when eating indian food 😉
And thanks for catching that! It’s milk indeed, not oil. I fixed it now.
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It is a compliment, I love Indian food 🙂
Thanks 🙂
I haven’t tried this before. I do want to eat a real/authentic or even a fusion version before I make it just so I’d know if my attempt is a success or a failure. Hehehe
I love curry though so I’m sure I will enjoy the flavors of this.
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As long as it tastes good it’s a succes in my opinion ;). And even having eaten in indian restaurants a few times, I still think it tastes different when I make it myself. Usually for the beter as in restuarants they might throw ingredients in it I don’t like and I can adjust my recipes to my own taste.
I would have never thought to put dough into it. Great find, Lola!
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I never would’ve thought of it myself either, but once I found it I just knew I had to give it a try. It’s so good and the dough in the curry is very yummy!
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oh my this looks so tasty. And I love trying out new recipes from Pinterest, there are so many fun ones. I definitely want to try this one out.
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I agree! Pinterest always manages to surprise me with what kind of dishes are out there. And this one certainly was a pleasant surprise. It’s a delicious curry!
I’ve never had dough in a curry but it sounds really tasty! I might try it next time I eat out in an Indian restaurant to see if I like it and if I do, I’ll give it a go!
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I hope they have a similiar dish at the indian restaurant you can go to. The dough really adds something to this curry!
Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a curry with dough in it before! I’m really curious about this. I’ll have to give it a shot soon!
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Let me know if you give it a try! This is the first and only curry I ate with dough so far, but it’s one of my favourites curry. The dough pieces really add something to this curry.
Mmm dough makes anything even better. Yum!
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I agree dough makes everything better! I love this curry!