What to cook with chana dal

36 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use chana dal. 21 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Indian and South Indian recipes.

recipes use it
36
are built around it
21
median total time
50 min
ready in 30 minutes or less
7

Recipes built around chana dal

With chana dal, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with chana dal

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with chana dal, out of 36 recipes.

  • Mustard seed53% of recipes
  • Curry leaves47% of recipes
  • Asafoetida36% of recipes
  • Fenugreek47% of recipes
  • Ghee42% of recipes
  • Turmeric50% of recipes
  • Chili42% of recipes
  • Mung beans14% of recipes

Where chana dal shows up

Cuisines

  • Indian23
  • South Indian5

Courses

  • Breakfast12
  • Dinner9
  • Side5

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.