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Stuffed Moong Dal Cheela Recipe

Delicious Moong dal cheela stuffed with paneer and peas filling.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time25 minutes
Soaking Time3 hours
Total Time3 hours 35 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 5 Cheela

Ingredients

  • 1 cup moong dal
  • 1 inch ginger
  • 1 chilli
  • green coriander
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • oil
  • 1 bowl boiled peas
  • 100-200 gram paneer
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Steps for making batter for cheela

  • Soak moong dal in water for 2 to 3 hours. After soaking, drain the water from it.
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  • Put soaked moong dal in blender and add little water in it.
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  • Add cumin seeds, green chillies and ginger in it.
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  • Grind it until it becomes a smooth paste. When you add water in it, do not add too much water in it. Otherwise it will not grind evenly. We require a smooth paste of it.
  • Remove it in a bowl.
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  • Add salt in it and mix it.
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  • If it is too thick then add little bit water in it.
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  • Make a dosa like consistency.
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  • Add coriander leaves in it. And mix it
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Prepare stuffing for moong dal cheela

  • Grate the paneer
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  • Add boiled peas, salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder in it. And mix it.
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Making cheela on tawa

  • Heat the tawa on gas.
  • Spread some oil on the tawa. And clean the tawa with tissue paper.
  • Put the batter on tawa with the spoon. And spread batter in circular motion. Make sure that flame is low.
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  • Spread the oil on top and on all sides of the dosa. Cook it on high flame.
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  • After 1 to 2 minutes. The edges will lose the tawa itself.
  • Flip it once it is cook from one side.
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  • Cook it from other side as well.
  • Put the stuffing in the middle of the cheela
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  • Fold it. And remove it in plate.
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  • Before making next chilla, Clean the tawa every time.

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Notes

For making plain cheela do not add any stuffing in it.