Kadale Kaalu Usli | Kadale Kaalu Usli Recipe | Chickpea Sundal | Indian Snacks

Are you looking for a healthy Indian snacks recipe with less calorie? Here is a nutritious kadale kaalu usli, which is also a best healthy snacks for weight loss. Kadale Kaalu Usli or kabul Kadale Sundal is a simple, easy, heathy snack. Usually kadae kaalu usli is prepared with black chana. But you can also make usli or sundal with kabul chana or chickpea. Mainly, usli is a spicy snack, usually serve during poojas and ceremonies. Especially this kadle kalu usli is served as a prasadam, during Ganesh Chathurti, Naga Chouti, Navaratri and Varamahalaksmi pooja.

How to make Chickpeas Sundal or Kadale kaalu usli

For making this chickpeas sundal or usli, most importantly chickpea needs to be soak overnight for 8 to 10 hours. Then drain out the water and pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles. After that, make a coarse paste of coconut and green chilli, with out adding water. Heat a pan and add oil and seasonings. Then add blended paste and boiled chickpea, salt. Mix everything well and finally add lemon juice and garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Easy to make and tastes amazing.

Furthermore this is spicy dish can be served as a healthy snack or accompaniment. Also in most of the temples, after the pooja they used to give the kadale kaalu usli as a prasadam. Chickpeas are good for health and they taste good when prepared with proper ingredients. Even more chickpeas are high in protein, with lots of fiber and low in fat content which helps in weight loss. Hence it is a best healthy snacks for weight loss.

Moreover this usli is much healthy snack rather than fried snack. Certainly you can feed this usli to kids as a snack, instead of giving junk foods. It fills the stomach with lots of protein in it and hence reduces the intake of food.  Definitely it is a low calorie healthy snack which comes under 300 calories. So it is a good recipe for those who are dieting and want to lose their weight.

Finally you can try our other recipes also

• Chickpea salad
• Pumpkin oatmeal
• Dry fruits energy bar
• Chickpea dosa
• Healthy weight loss recipes

Here is the healthy, tasty kadale kaalu usli with step by step photos and a detailed video.

Kadale Kaalu Usli | Kadale Kaalu Usli Recipe | Chickpea Sundal | Indian Snacks

Kadale Kaalu Usli is a Simple, easy, healthy snack recipe. This is a perfect recipe which is under 300 calories and helps in weight loss. It is an authentic south Indian salad or snack made with Kadle Kalu (Chickpea) along with other ingredients. It is a spicy dish can be served as a snack or accompaniment. Especially during festivals seasons.

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Course: Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine: Karnataka

Keyword: Healthy, tasty, WeightLoss

Prep Time: 30 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes minutes

Servings: 1

Calories: 272kcal

Ingredients

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp grated coconut
• green chilli as per taste
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• ½ tsp mustard
• ½ tsp cumin
• ½ tsp hing (asafetida)
• ½ cup chickpea or kabuli chana boiled
• salt as per taste
• ½ tsp sugar optional
• ½ tsp lemon juice
• coriander leaves for garnish

Instructions

Making Of Kadle Kalu Usli / Kabul kadle Sundal:

• First of all, take a small blender and grated coconut, green chilli.
• Blend this mixture to a coarse paste with out adding water. Keep this aside.
• Meanwhile Heat a pan on moderate flame and add coconut oil. You can use any oil, but I prefer coconut oil.
• Once the oil is hot enough, add the seasonings like, mustard, cumin and hing.
• Saute well until it splutters. Then add coarse blended mixture .
• Saute for a min or two. Then add boiled kabul kadle
• Lower the flame, and mix everything well. 
• Add little salt, sugar(optional) and again give a good mix. Turn off the heat.
• Finally add lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well.
• Now the healthy, tasty Kadle Kalu Usli is ready to enjoy.

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