# H10 - Chana Ghashi Recipe GSB Special | Tai's kitchen | Know how to prepare authentic GSB curry 😋😋

Chana ghashi is a thick Konkan-style coconut-based chickpea curry (kabuli chana). This flavourful dish is a typical GSB and a favourite up and down the Konkan coast….and understandably so…it’s easy to fall in love with this veg ghashi recipe of chickpeas simmered in a delicious spicy and tangy coconut-based curry.
Chano means chickpea and ghashi refers to a spicy thick coconut-based curry in Konkani.
Serve chana ghashi hot with rice rotti or chapati - Chana Ghashi Recipe
Ghashi (also ghassi, ghashi, or gassi) is typically made of fresh ground spices including red chillies and coconut. There are a variety of ghashis and among them chana ghashi is the most popular. Konkani chana ghashi is also known as chana sukka.
Channa Ghashi is among the most well-known dishes of the Mangalorean Gowd Saraswat Brahmins (GSB) Konkani community.
Place soaked chickpeas in a pressure cooker along with salty and baking soda. Add water and cook - Chana Gashi Recipe
This chana ghashi recipe is usually prepared on special occasions like weddings, thread ceremony, and Hindu festivals because it does not contain onion and garlic, which are prohibited ingredients on such auspicious and religious occasions.
Hence, this no-onion, no-garlic dish is made for Ganesh Chaturthi and Ugadi (the new year in Karnataka which also marks the beginning of the harvest season). Chana gassi is served as prasadam at the Sri Venkataramana temple in Udupi and in other temples in the region. Here chana ghashi is served on banana leaves by temple volunteers.