Dal is THE comfort food for many people. Like others, we too enjoy a simple dinner of Rice and Dal :). It is just heavenly when you taste home cooked simple dal and rice after a busy and a tiring day at work. DH loves dal /blush and he is the most happiest person at home when the menu for the day has DAL....Its a surprise dinner for him today with his favorite food. Lets take a look at Dal Tadka - My simple version.
Ingredients:
For the seasoning:
Ingredients:
- Toor Dal - 1/2 cup
- Tomatoes - 2 medium sized (I used grape tomatoes)
- Salt - To taste
- Water - 2 cups
For the seasoning:
- Ghee / oil - 1 tbsp (I used coconut oil)al cooks fast and gets really
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds / jeera - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida - A pinch
- Curry leaves - a few
- Cilantro - Finely chopped for garnishing
- Dry Red chillies - 3-4
Method:
- Soak the Toor dal for 15 min. By doing so the dal cooks faster and gets really mushy.
- Add salt, tomatoes and pressure cook for about 4-5 whistles.
- For the seasoning, take a tadka pan and add the ghee/ oil. I used coconut oil to get an authentic south Indian taste.
- Add the mustard seeds and allow it to pop. Then add cumin seeds, dry red chilies, asafoetida and curry leaves.
- Pour the tadka/seasoning into the cooked dal and mix well.
- Garnish with cilantro and serve hot with basmati rice or phulka rotis.
- Enjoy!!
Notes:
- You can use ghee or any kind of oil suited to your taste.
- You can choose to add tomatoes or make a plain dal without any veggies which would taste just as fine.
- You can even use moong dal or masoor dal/red lentils for this dal tadka.
