There are times when u just want to have plain and simple home food. And what better comfort food in India than daal, roti, rice along side raita, papad and achar. I love eating daal with or without anything. I can eat daal like a soup, that is how much I love daal.
I make daal in different variations, but to start with I am giving my first basic daal recipe so that anyone and everyone can enjoy a good daal.
Ingredients:
4 handful Toor daal (I measure it like this - 2 handfuls/person --- believe me it is accurate every single time)
salt
3 cups water
Tadka:
2 tomatoes
2-3 cloves of garlic - cut into small pieces
piece of ginger - julienne
2 green chillis - cut into small pieces
2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp zeera
pinch of hing/asafoetida
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tbsp garam masala
1 tsp dry mango powder/amchoor powder
Garnish:
corainder leaves - roughly chopped
Recipe:
1. In a pressure cooker, add daal, water and salt. Let the daal cook. It will take arond 2-3 whistles to cook it. (TIP: if it is raw, donot worry about it. You can cook it again. It is daal nothing can go wrong trust me. But add more water than less. Less water can be disastrous)
2. Take a seperate pan, add ghee. Let it heat on medium high.
3. After ghee starts heating, add garlic, ginger and green chilli in it.
4. Once garlic starts to turn light golden brown add zeera and hing/asafoetida.
5. As soos as zeera starts to crackle, add turmeric and red chilli powder.
6. After 5 seconds, add tomatoes.
7. Let tomatoes cook until puree like tadka is ready.
8. Add this tadka to your daal alongwith garam masala and dry mango powder.
9. Garnish it with coriander leaves and server hot with rice/roti/ and raita/papad/achar.
I make daal in different variations, but to start with I am giving my first basic daal recipe so that anyone and everyone can enjoy a good daal.
4 handful Toor daal (I measure it like this - 2 handfuls/person --- believe me it is accurate every single time)
salt
3 cups water
Tadka:
2 tomatoes
2-3 cloves of garlic - cut into small pieces
piece of ginger - julienne
2 green chillis - cut into small pieces
2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp zeera
pinch of hing/asafoetida
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tbsp garam masala
1 tsp dry mango powder/amchoor powder
Garnish:
corainder leaves - roughly chopped
Recipe:
1. In a pressure cooker, add daal, water and salt. Let the daal cook. It will take arond 2-3 whistles to cook it. (TIP: if it is raw, donot worry about it. You can cook it again. It is daal nothing can go wrong trust me. But add more water than less. Less water can be disastrous)
2. Take a seperate pan, add ghee. Let it heat on medium high.
3. After ghee starts heating, add garlic, ginger and green chilli in it.
4. Once garlic starts to turn light golden brown add zeera and hing/asafoetida.
5. As soos as zeera starts to crackle, add turmeric and red chilli powder.
6. After 5 seconds, add tomatoes.
7. Let tomatoes cook until puree like tadka is ready.
8. Add this tadka to your daal alongwith garam masala and dry mango powder.
9. Garnish it with coriander leaves and server hot with rice/roti/ and raita/papad/achar.
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