Delicious Moong dal cheela stuffed with paneer and peas filling.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time25 minutesmins
Soaking Time3 hourshrs
Total Time3 hourshrs35 minutesmins
Course: Breakfast, Brunch, Snack
Cuisine: Indian
Servings: 5Cheela
Ingredients
1cupmoong dal
1inchginger
1chilli
green coriander
1teaspooncumin seeds
oil
1bowlboiled peas
100-200grampaneer
1teaspoonblack pepper powder
1teaspoonsalt
Instructions
Steps for making batter for cheela
Soak moong dal in water for 2 to 3 hours. After soaking, drain the water from it.
Put soaked moong dal in blender and add little water in it.
Add cumin seeds, green chillies and ginger in it.
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.
Add salt in it and mix it.
If it is too thick then add little bit water in it.
Make a dosa like consistency.
Add coriander leaves in it. And mix it
Prepare stuffing for moong dal cheela
Grate the paneer
Add boiled peas, salt and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper powder in it. And mix it.
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.
Spread the oil on top and on all sides of the dosa. Cook it on high flame.
After 1 to 2 minutes. The edges will lose the tawa itself.
Flip it once it is cook from one side.
Cook it from other side as well.
Put the stuffing in the middle of the cheela
Fold it. And remove it in plate.
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.