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    Home » Recipes » Accompaniments

    Chana sundal recipe (Kondakadalai sundal)

    September 17, 2012 by Raks Anand 25 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Chana sundal prepared with kabuli chana or white chana (chickpeas) is a healthy dish as well as prepared during Ganesh chaturthi festival.

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    Ganesh chaturthi / Vinayagar chaturthi is only 2 days away and here is the chana sundal recipe we make for the festival. You can make the same with black chana too. I love both channa white and the brown/black.

    I often make chana masala or pindi chana for Aj. Sundal, I make only very rarely, but I love it. This year we are not celebrating the festival as paati passed away, so made it last week and clicked too. Very simple recipe, but flavorful one.

    Chana or kondakadalai is how we call. But when I was studying in Trichy, many of my friends call kondakadalai as Sundal as such. It was funny for me for a while but then when I heard it from others too, then realized some people also call kondakadalai as sundal!

    chana sundal recipe

    Cooking hack

    How to cook chana perfectly?

    Soaking the chana overnight or minimum 10 hours is a must for perfect cooked chana. This is the normal process I follow.

    Make sure to wash, drain the soaked water and change to fresh water before cooking.

    Adding salt while cooking helps to prevent over cooking and mushy results.

    Have less time on hand, forgot to soak?

    You can add ¼ teaspoon of cooking soda and pressure cook for 10 whistles in medium flame. Cooking soda helps softening the legume and gives soft cooked chickpeas.

    Difference

    What is the difference between white chana and black/ brown?

    White chana is widely available and commonly used these days. It is cream in color, bigger when compared to the black chana.

    It's softer skin and texture than the other one. Where as on the other hand, kala chana/ black chana/ brown variety is smaller, skin is thicker and have a slight dense texture.

    I love both for it's own quality, but folks at home say brown chana has more nutritional value.

    My notes

    My hack to a perfect flavorful sundal is adding asafoetida divided at two stages, one while tempering and one raw along chana. Both give a distinct flavor as my mom says as well as keeps the gastric issue in check when you consume legume.

    Add a drizzle of coconut oil, raw (cold pressed virgin oil works best) for an amazing flavor.

    Related posts

    • Kondakadalai sundal
    • Chana salad
    • Kodakadalai kurma

    Recipe card

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    Chana sundal recipe

    Chana sundal prepared with kabuli chana or white chana is a healthy dish as well as prepared during Ganesh chaturthi festival.
    Course Snack
    Cuisine Indian, South Indian
    Prep Time 10 minutes
    Cook Time 20 minutes
    Soaking time 10 hours
    Total Time 10 hours 30 minutes
    Servings 3
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup Chana Chickpeas/ Kondakadalai
    • ¼ cup Coconut scraped
    • ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
    • Salt as needed

    To Temper

    • 1 teaspoon Oil
    • ½ teaspoon Mustard
    • 1 teaspoon Urad dal
    • 2 Red chilli
    • ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
    • 8 Curry leaves
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    Instructions

    • To start with, wash and soak chana overnight. Next day, drain water and wash one more time.
    • Then, pressure cook it with salt and water just to immerse it for 4 – 5 whistles in medium flame.
    • After that, heat kadai with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table.
    • Continue by adding the cooked chana drained from water. Sprinkle the asafoetida.
    • Keep stirring every now and then for 2 minutes until moisture evaporates.
    • Finally, add the grated coconut and fry for a minute. Transfer to the serving bowl.

    Notes

    • You can add onion after tempering but for festivals we have to avoid onion.
    • Also you can replace red chillies with green chillies.
    • You can grind green chilli and coconut and add it at last instead of tempering and adding grated coconut towards end.
    • I added salt while cooking. This prevents over cooking of chana.
    • Sometimes if the soaking hour is less, then adding salt will prevent chana from cooking properly. In such cases, add salt after cooking chana.
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    Stepwise photos

    1. To start with, wash and soak chana overnight and drain the water, wash it again. Add fresh water.
    2. After that, pressure cook it with salt and water just to immerse it for 4 – 5 whistles.
    chickpeas-cooked

    3. Then continue by heat kadai with oil and temper with the items given under ‘To temper’ table. Add the cooked channa drained from water.

    tempering

    4. Continue by stirring for 2 minutes until moisture evaporates and add the grated coconut and fry for a minute. Transfer to the serving bowl.

    add coconut, ready

    Delicious sundal is ready… Its very healthy guilt free snack!

    kondakadalai-sundal

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Sudha Sabarish

      September 17, 2012 at 8:19 am

      Love this kind of sundal and use to prepare it very ofently with both varieties.

      Reply
    2. Sangeetha Nambi

      September 17, 2012 at 8:27 am

      Love this ever....
      http://recipe-excavator.blogspot.com

      Reply
    3. Kaveri Venkatesh

      September 17, 2012 at 8:36 am

      You've presented even this simple sundal in such a beautiful and tempting way....looks awesome

      Reply
    4. Premalatha Aravindhan

      September 17, 2012 at 8:57 am

      Delicious sundal,luks gr8!

      Reply
    5. Veena Theagarajan

      September 17, 2012 at 9:07 am

      so yummy sundal! easy to make.. and healthy too
      Great-secret-of-life.blogspot.com

      Reply
    6. sowmya's creative saga

      September 17, 2012 at 9:14 am

      looks delicious

      Reply
    7. Priya

      September 17, 2012 at 11:27 am

      My most favourite sundal,simply love it.

      Reply
    8. Jaya J

      September 17, 2012 at 11:34 am

      Really looks great.. ur stepwise pics is always helpful to beginners like me and ur tips are so useful... u help me learn cooking from the basics.. thank you so much..

      Reply
    9. Hamaree Rasoi

      September 17, 2012 at 12:07 pm

      It never looked so beautiful....Simple yet tasty

      Reply
    10. Anamika Sharma

      September 17, 2012 at 12:26 pm

      Hey...Addition of Coconut in the Chana's makes this dish really yum, I wasn't aware that it is called Sundal till last year ganesh chaturthi festival. I love this combo 🙂

      Reply
    11. Sharmilee! :)

      September 17, 2012 at 12:36 pm

      Looks very flavourful....beautiful clicks too!!

      Reply
    12. jeyashrisuresh

      September 17, 2012 at 2:18 pm

      Super tempting sundal and clicks are pretty

      Reply
    13. dassana

      September 17, 2012 at 3:17 pm

      i love sundals. the pics are great with black background and simple styling.

      Reply
    14. ஸ்வர்ணரேக்கா

      September 17, 2012 at 3:19 pm

      always love to view ur space both for tips & photos...

      happy to hear that you studied in Trichy

      Reply
    15. Laavanya

      September 17, 2012 at 4:24 pm

      Sundals are always a treat - simple, tasty and nutritious

      Reply
    16. ANU

      September 17, 2012 at 7:32 pm

      wow these clicks are very inviting and appetizing...

      happy to follow you dear...
      Do visit my space....

      SYF&HWS - Cook with Spices

      South Indian Cooking (SIC) Series

      Reply
    17. Sangeetha

      September 17, 2012 at 9:00 pm

      love this simple sundals anytime, loved your clicks, so inviting!!

      Reply
    18. divya

      September 17, 2012 at 10:40 pm

      Healthy , delicious and flavorful.. Love it..

      Reply
    19. Sanoli Ghosh

      September 17, 2012 at 10:49 pm

      Very healthy and flavourful sundal. Awesome clicks.

      Reply
    20. Reshmi Mahesh

      September 18, 2012 at 4:39 am

      Sundal look super with your clicks...simple and yummy preparation...

      Reply
    21. Mano Saminathan

      September 18, 2012 at 5:04 am

      Simple but delicious sundal! The photograph looks very nice!!

      Reply
    22. revathi santhanam

      September 19, 2012 at 3:30 pm

      With a great pride i say, i ve become a big time fan of ours!!! Usually, i spend most of my time in facebook!! But then now, the site in which i spend most of my time is rakskitchen.. Not only that, i ve started loving cooking. Had never stepped into kitchen before. Since last week, i ve promised to myself to try one recipe of yours every week. Already started with Lady's finger fry!! Def it did nt turn out way too good.. But then quite happy for my first try.. Love u soooo much!!! And your recipes... Yumm *Mouth-watering* every recipe is! 🙂

      Keep posting more recipes. And i promise to myself to try every single recipe that u have posted.

      With love,

      Revathi S

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    23. revathi santhanam

      September 19, 2012 at 3:32 pm

      Also, to mention a great photographer!! The way you present your recipe is simply wowww!! 🙂

      Reply
    24. Top Cuisine avec Lavi

      September 20, 2012 at 5:03 am

      Great recipe! Looks delicious! the pictures are incredible!

      Reply
    25. Vanamala Hebbar

      September 27, 2012 at 3:31 pm

      shundal looks delicious....

      Reply

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