DHALCHA

Ingredients:

Lentils- 200gms
Bengal gram- 2 tbsp
Mutton pieces with more bones- 250 gms
Finely chopped onion-1 cup
Finely chopped tomato-2 cups
Ginger paste- 1 tsp
Garlic paste- 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
Chilli powder- 1 tbsp
Coriander powder- 1 tsp
Tamarind- a lime size
Chopped coriander leaves- 3 tbsp
Diced brinjals- 2 cups
A big mango [ottu mango is very suitable]
Enough salt

Procedure:

Soak the tamarind in enough water for 30 minutes and then extract its juice.
Pressure cook the dals and the mutton pieces with the tomato, onion, ginger and garlic pastes separately. Then heat a kadai and pour the dals with the cooked mutton, powders and enough salt. Cook for a few minutes. Add the vegetables with the tamarind extract. Cook for more minutes until every thing is well cooked in the gravy.This dhalcha should not be thickened.