Soaked chana dal for 6-7 hours. And add soaked chana in cooker with water. now make potali of cinnamon sticks, dried amla,black cardamom,black tea,cloves in a muslin cloth
Add this potali to the cooker of boiling chana make the 6 whistles.
Once cooked discard the potali
Now for chana masal take one bowl and mix all spices in bowl with little water and make paste.
Now take a pan and heat the ghee now add asafoetida, onions and add ginger garlic paste and cook onions till they turn golden brown.
Now add spices mix paste and add tomato or curd cook till tamoto turn soft and mushy now add green chillies paste and saute for a minute.
Now add cooked chana in gravy.
Add 1 cup water and cook for a 10 minutes.
Now add some dry fenugreek leaves and off the flame.
Serve hot along with kulcha, nan, paratha..
