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Simple dal fry

Simple Dal fry

Bhuvana Devi
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Veg
Cuisine Indian
Servings 5

Ingredients
  

  • Toor dal – 1 cup
  • Shattots- 1 cup
  • Tomato -1 finely chopped
  • Green Chilly -2
  • Ghee -2 tsp
  • Asafoetida – 1/4tsp
  • Chili powder- ½ tsp
  • Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
  • Curry leaves- few
  • Cumin seeds- ½ tbsp
  • Garlic- 4 cloves
  • Dried red chili- 1

Instructions
 

  • Heat a pressure cooker to add 1 cup of Toor dal with 3 cups of water for 5 whistles.
  • Heat a 2 tbsp ghee or oil in a pan. Add ½ tbsp cumin seeds, 2 green chilies, 1 red chili broken, few curry leaves sauté well.
  • Now add chopped onion and cook well till onion turns glassy.
  • Then, add 1 chopped tomato, ½ tsp turmeric powder, ¼ tsp asafoetida, ½ tsp chili powder, ½ tsp coriander powder and sauté well on low flame.
  • Add the cooked and mashed dal, salt, water and mix well.
  • Once the dal gets mixed with flavors. Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with hot plain rice with ghee enhance the flavor or with roti, plain paratha.