Recipe of Dal Fry - Spiced Indian Lentils - Cooking Tasty Soup
Lentils or Dals are a staple diet of many of the Indian households. This dish can be made with a variety of lentils like toor, chana, moong or a mixture of such lentils. You can consume it with plain rice or a flat roti (Indian bread).
There’s only few ways to prepare some dal. To be more precise, there’s 3 way to prepare a dal dish. The most popular way is to make a soup and add some onions, tomatoes and various kind of spices. My favorite way by far to eat some lentils is by making a soup out of it. This recipe of Dal fry come directly from my indian friends family.
Ingredients
- Two cups of water
- one cup of lentils or dal
- Salt
- Finely chopped coriander leaves
- Half teaspoon of fenugreek leaves or Kasuri methi
- Some garam masala
- chili powder
- Turmeric powder
- One large sized tomato
- One teaspoon garlic paste
- Finely chopped onion
- Green Chilies
- Red chili
- Half teaspoon of mustard
- One teaspoon jeera or cumin seeds
- One teaspoon butter or ghee
Preparation steps
- Wash your lentil (dal) for a few times until it becomes free from dust and other impurities
- Add pure and fresh water to the pressure cooker
Cook on a medium gas burner for two whistles. Add more water as needed and cook until it becomes soft.
Procedure
- Heat the cooking pan with some amount of vegetable oil. Proceed to add mustard, red chili and cumin seeds.
- Next up do add some green chilies and onions. Cook on a medium gas burner till the onions turn to brownish yellow.
- Add garlic paste and fry the mixture till the smell is done with
- After doing so, add some tomatoes and salt as per requirement. Cook further till tomatoes become soft
- Add turmeric powder, garam masala and red chili powder.
- Cook for an additional two minutes
- add both the cooked as well as the mashed lentils and if required add some amount of water
- Heat till the mixture bubbles
- After doing so for five minutes, your dal fry is ready to be served.
The best way to eat some dal fry soup is to serve it hot or warm.
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240 calories per serving.
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