- Wash the soaked daal and grind it into a coarse. paste using little water. Mix all the ingredients listed(soaked chana paste,curry leaves,ginger garlic,green chillies,cumin powder,salt,red chilli powder)above, except oil, to the dal paste. Make small unevenly round spheres of the daal paste and deep fry it in oil. Serve with tamarind chutney.