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Dal Tadka

Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup Tuar Dal soaked in water for 20 minutes
  • 1 cup Tomato fine chopped
  • ½ cup Onion fine chopped
  • ½ tsp Turmeric Powder
  • Salt
  • 4 cup Water
  • Coriander Leaves fine chopped
  • 2 Green Chilli
  • 1 inch Ginger
  • 6 Garlic Clove
  • 1 tsp Coriander Seeds
  • 2 tbsp Oil
  • 3 tbsp Butter
  • 2 Dry Red Chillies
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
  • 2 pinch Asafoetida
  • 1 tsp Fenugreek Leaves
  • ½ tsp Red Chilli Powder
  • ½ tsp Kashmiri Red Chilli powder

Instructions
 

  • Wash and soak dal for 20 minutes. In the meanwhile make fresh ginger, garlic, green chilly and coriander seeds paste.
  • Add 3 cups of water, chopped tomatoes, onions, turmeric power, salt and few drops of oil and pressure cook dal. I took 2 whistles.
  • Once pressure cooker cools down open it and boil dal for almost 5 minutes. Afetr 5 minutes switch off the heat.
  • Now burn the charcoal form both the sides on stove top till it becomes red hot. Put it in the steel bowl and drop some butter or ghee on it. This will make charcoal smoke.
  • Now gently put this bowl in dal, cover the cooker. After almost 4-5 minutes slowly take the bowl of the cooker with the help of tongs.
  • Now heat the pan at medium heat and add oil, butter, whole red chilly, cumin seeds. Add freshly made garlic paste, saute continuously and cook till raw smell is gone.
  • Add red chilly powder, Kashmiri chilly power and sweitch of the heat. When you are ready to serve put this tadka in hor dal.
  • Serve dal tadka with with rice , rotis or parathas. Tastes heaven :p

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Notes

Shilpi’s Quick Tricks
  • Do not overcook dal. We want cooked dal and not a paste in this recipe.
  • Adding tomatoes and onions are optional while making this dal.
  • This dal can be made with or without dhungur method.
  • You can use any combination of oil, butter or ghee in making tadka.
  • Adding few drops of oil while cooking dal will avoid it from overflowing while cooking in pressure cooker.
  •  I washed dal and soaked it for 20 minutes before cooking which helps in cooking dal faster and easily.
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