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  • Step #1 "Some of the most common kinds of pulses used in Indian cooking are as follows: Chana dal (or gram dal) are hulled & split chick-peas.
  • Step #2 Deep yellow in color, these pulses do not need soaking before cooking.
  • Step #3 " "Kabli chana are yellow chick-peas.
  • Step #4 Unhulled & beige in color, they need overnight soaking before cooking.
  • Step #5 "Kala chana are small brown or black chick-peas.
  • Step #6 Like kabli chana, they require long presoaking & cooking to become tender.
  • Step #7 "Continental masoor are whole greenish-brown lentils.
  • Step #8 Flat and oval-shaped, they originated in the West & were adopted by India, so they should already be fairly familiar to you.
  • Step #9 They do not need presoaking.
  • Step #10 " "Masoor are brown Indian lentils.
  • Step #11 Whole but smaller than continental masoor, they do not require presoaking.
  • Step #12 "Masoor dal are split masoor which are tiny & salmon-pink because they have also been hulled.
  • Step #13 They do not need presoaking & turn yellow when they cook.
  • Step #14 "Moong beans (or hari dal) are dark green, small, & slightly cylindrical in shape.
  • Step #15 They need 2-4 hrs' soaking before cooking, but if oversoaked they will sprout & become moong bean sprouts so familiar in the West.
  • Step #16 " "Moong dal chilka are split moong beans, green on one side & pale on the other.
  • Step #17 They do not need presoaking.
  • Step #18 "Moong dal are split, light yellow, & rectangular in shape because they are hulled.
  • Step #19 They do not need to be soaked before cooking.
  • Step #20 "Toor dal (or arhar dal) are a hulled, split pulse, a little larger than chana dal.
  • Step #21 Dull & yellow-colored, they do need presoaking.
  • Step #22 " "Urid (or black matpe) are small, dull, & black, similar in size and shape to moong beans.
  • Step #23 They must be presoaked.
  • Step #24 "Urid dal are split urid that do not need to be soaked before cooking.
  • Step #25 "Washed urid dal are off-white because they have been hulled and washed as well as split.
  • Step #26 They do not require presoaking.
  • Step #27 --.
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