Dal recipe| Simple dal recipe with video
Dal recipe is the simplest vegetarian side dish, commonly prepared with toor dal/toor lentil and seasoned with basic spices. This dal is very common dish in India, served for plain steamed rice with ghee and roti items and goes well with dosa too.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup toor lentil
- 6 shallots/small onions or 1 big onion
- 3 garlic pods
- Few curry leaves
- 2 tsp oil
- 1 tsp ghee
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp sambhar powder
- ½ tsp mustard
- ½ tsp jeera seeds
- ¼ tsp hing
- 2 red chillies
- 1 tsp crystal salt or as required
- Few coriander leaves
Instructions
Preparation:
- Soak toor lentil for 30 mins. Cook , mash it soft in a pressure cooker.
Recipe:
- Heat 2 tsp of oil and a tsp of ghee.
- Add mustard and cumin seeds. Let them splutter.
- Add chopped onions, crushed garlic pods, and curry leaves.
- Put ¼ tsp of hing or asafoetida.
- Split two red chillies, add and saute with onions.
- Add a tsp of sambhar powder and mix.
- Mash the softly cooked lentil and add into the kadai.
- Add a tsp of crystal salt.
- Close with lid for the dal to cook with spices for 3-5 minutes.
- Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve with hot rice and ghee.
Notes
Tips/notes: 1) You can add tomatoes also after garlic in this dal if you like. 2) Don’t avoid hing, because it gives nice aroma and aid good digestion with lentils preparation. 3) You can season fully with ghee for even better taste. 4) This is easily digestible and mild recipe hence apt for babies and elders.
Nutrition
Calories: 150kcal
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