Foods
 		    
Dalma
Ingredients
3/4 cup Toor dal
1/3 cup Chana Dal
1 tsp ghee or oil
1 peeled potato and cut into large pieces
1/2 lb of yellow squash cut into pieces
1 small eggplant cut into medium size pieces
1 green Banana cut into medium size pieces 		2 tsp of grated coconut
4 dried red chillies
1 tbs of ginger minced
1 tbs turmeric
1 tsp of chari-phutana (cumin, mustard, fennel, fenu greek) seeds
1 tsp of cumin seed
Salt to taste
Method

Dry roast 1 tsp of cumin in a pan and grind it properly and leave it aside.
Boil 4 cups of water  and add both dals (toor and chana), coconut, salt, minced ginger and turmeric and  leave it until Dals is half cooked'. Add all vegetables viz. potato, banana, squash, egg plant and cook until daal is cooked properly.
Fry the chari-phutana until it fluters and then add it to the dal
Mix the cumin powder from Step 1 and serve with Rice