Wash the dal and keep it a pressure pan with three times the water in it. Add a pinch of turmeric powder. In another bowl, put the peanuts and cook them together in a pressure cooker. Let it cook for three whistles. Allow the pressure to release by itself. The dal should be well cooked. Give a stir and keep it aside.

Take a wide bowl, put the ingredients for dhokli except water.Give a mix. Now, add little water at a time and make a stiff dough.Keep it covered for sometime.

Take oil in a pan, add mustard seeds as it crackles, put cumin. Then add pieces of  red chilli, curry leaves and slit green chilli. Give a mix, put the dal to it. Add salt and sugar. Put the cooked peanuts to it. Adjust the consistency, the dal should be of a thicker consistency. But since, you will be boiling it, you can add some water to it.

Make three balls of the dough, roll them into chapathi and cut them into rectangular shaped pieces. As you cut it, put a few into the dal which is kept on the other side of the stove. Repeat for the rest of the dough.

Add the dhoklis with a time interval, lest they may stick together and form a lump. Let it boil for sometime. Keep stirring in between.

You can garnish with fresh coriander and lime juice. It is best served hot.

Dal Dhokli is ready to serve.