Category: Soups & Dal, Vegetarian Recipes
Cuisine: Indian, North Indian
Yields:
4 Servings
Difficulty: Medium
“Dal” is a popular lentil dish from the Indian sub – continent. An Indian meal is not complete without a dal dish of some kind. Here is a popular dal recipe.
Ingredients
Instructions
- Wash dal and rinse about 3 times until water runs clear. Soak dal in fresh water for 20 minutes. Then drain and put the dal in a pressure with 2 cups of water. Pressure cook on medium heat for 3 whistles.
- When the pressure goes down, open the lid, and mash the dal well with the back of a large spoon.
- Add 3 tbsp.ghee in a deep bottom vessel and put it on medium heat. Add mustard and cumin seeds.
- When the seeds start spluttering, add the finely chopped onions. Fry on medium high until the onions turn a light brown.
- Now add in chopped green chillies and ginger garlic paste. Fry for a minute.
- Next, add the ground turmeric, red chilli pd. and salt to taste. Then add in finely chopped tomatoes. Mix well, cover the sessel and let tomatoes cook about 3 minutes.
- Mash the paste well, and add in the cooked dal. Mix well. Now add in 1/2 tsp. dried fenugreek leaves (optional).
- Stir the dal mix well and let it cook further for 5 minutes until all the spices re blended in.
- Serve dal fry garnished with chopped coriander leaves.