Moong Dal Recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Moong Dal
- 2 pinch Asafoetida
- ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- ½ tsp Coriander Powder
- ½ tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 2 Dry Red Chillies
- 2-3 Cloves
- 6-7 Garlic fine chopped
- 2-3 tbsp Coriander Leaves fine chopped
- ½ inch Ginger thin sliced
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- Salt according to taste
- 1-2 tbsp Ghee
Instructions
- Wash and soak moong dal for 2 hours. After two hours. Take a pressure cooker and add dal.
- Strain the water before adding to cooker. Add 1 1/2 cups of water, coriander and turmeric powder, salt and few drops of oil.
- Adding oil prevents overflow of dal from pressure cooker. Now cover the cooker with a lid, make the heat to medium and take 1-2 whistles.
- After 2 whistles switch off the heat and let the cooker cools down. Once cooker is cold, take out the whistle and open the lid.
- Check dal. It should cook properly. If you find it hard take one more whistle. Now take tadka pan and heat it at medium heat.
- Add ghee and let it get warm. Now add asafetida, cloves and dry red chilly. Roast dry red chilly for few seconds.
- Now add cumin seeds, chopped garlic and ginger and reduce the heat to very low. Saute ginger garlic till they are nicely roasted.
- Now add red chilly powder and take it away from heat. Now put the dal cooker on high heat and add this hot tadka in dal.
- Sprinkle lots of coriander leaves, squeeze a tablw spoon of lemon juice and mix the dal gently. Cook it for a minute. Moong dal tadka is ready to serve.
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