Ingredients for Dal Curry:
1. Pigeon pea – 1 cup
2. Salt – For taste
3. Ghee – 2 small spoons
4. Mustard – ½ small spoon
Cumin seeds – ¾ small spoon
Fenugreek – ½ small spoon
5. Green chillies – 2, end split
Ginger – ½ inch piece chopped
6. Chilli powder – 1 small spoon
Turmeric powder – 1 small spoon
Coriander powder – ¾ small spoon
Asafoetida powder – 1 pinch
7. Tomato cut into fine pieces – ½
8. Coconut grated – 1 small spoon
Coriander leaves chopped – 1 small spoon
How to prepare Dal Curry?
1. Wash dal and cook in a pressure cooker, adding sufficient water.
2. Add 1 cup of water to the cooked dal and smash it well.
3. Heat ghee. Sauté mustard and cumin seeds, followed by ginger and green chillies.
4. Bring flame to low and add ingredients no: 6.
5. Fry it well and add sliced tomatoes.
6. When tomatoes are sauted well, add cooked daal along with water.
7. Cook the dal for 10 minutes on a low flame.
8. When a layer of ghee appears on the surface of daal, decorate your daal with grated coconut and coriander leaves and serve hot.
Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine October 15-31, 2016
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