Special Dhal

Alka Keswani — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:39:53 +0000

A kitchen, which is a blissful place for people those are used to cooking,could be a dreaded territory to the novices.Kitchen could be really cruel to the person who can’t cook to save his life, but is suddenly left on his own to fix meals.Many people start their journey to kitchen with whole lot of enthusiasm, but get exhausted with all the cutting fingers while chopping veggies, burning food, excess of seasoning or ending up with bland food. So when one such person send me his version of cooking a regular dhal, I couldn’t stop myself from trying it. Hey SK, I can imagine what you must be going thru’, but believe me everyone starts this journey the same way (I still burn food, hell lots of time;-) ). Honestly speaking I was bit skeptical, while adding coriander powder and garam masala powder, but I went with your recipe and it was unbelievably yummy ! I would suggest you to venture more in kitchen,who knows one fine day you might become the great SK (sanjeev kapoor… ofcourse).For now, I will only say…you gave me tough competition ..dude! Regarding the name special dhal, well, I couldn’t find a more appropriate name for that. Print Special Dal Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 30 mins Total time: 40 mins Serves: 2 Spicy tadka dal made with yellow moong dal (lentils) Ingredients Moong dal (yellow split dal) ½ cup Onion 1 Tomato 1 Green chillies 1-2 Oil 1-2 tsp Turmeric powder ¼ tsp Coriander powder ¼ tsp Garam masala powder ¼ tsp Jeera powder less than ¼ tsp Salt as per taste Curry leaves and cumin seeds for tempering(optional) Method Wash and soak moong dal for 20 minutes Now take some oil in a pan, add chopped onions and saute them till light brown in colour Add chopped tomatoes, green chillies and all dry masalas.Fry it for some more time Add soaked dal ,salt and water and let it boil for few minutes Cover it and let it simmer for few more minutes until cooked Now whisk it with manual whisker and adjust the consistency of dal It taste good without tempering, but if preferred, you can temper it with curry leaves and cumin seeds (just take 1 tspn of oil, add curry leaves and cumin seeds and heat it, till cumin seeds turn brown in colour.Add it while still hot into boiling dal and simmer it for few minutes) Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve with white rice, pulav or roti 2.2.1

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Tidali Dal

Alka Keswani — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:42:11 +0000

Print Tidaali Daal Prep time: 15 mins Cook time: 40 mins Total time: 55 mins Serves: 3 Three lentils mixed dal recipe Ingredients Chana dal, green Urad chilka, moong chilka in the ratio of 1:1:1/4 1 cup total Tomato 1 large size Turmeric powder ¼ tsp Green chillies 3 Ginger ½ inch piece Salt to taste For Tempering Garlic 6-7 cloves Oil 1 tbsp Curry leaves 5 Cummin seeds 1 tsp Fresh coriander leaves for garnishing Method Soak mixture of three lentils in warm water for at least 3 hrs (Tip* If in hurry, just mix three lentils in a bowl, grease your palms with oil and mix the lentils with greased palms, add hot water in that bowl and soak lentils for ½ hr) Rinse well with water for few times Pressure cook three lentils, with 3 cups of water, chopped tomato, finely chopped ginger and green chillies, add turmeric and salt and wait for 5 whistles of cooker. Let the pressure cooker cool, open the lid and whisk the dal. For tadka, heat the oil in a small frying pan, add crushed garlic, curry leaves and cumin seeds and wait till garlic turns golden brown. You can add a sliced onion too. Add this hot tadka to cooked dal and close the lid immediately, simmer it for 5 min on low flame Adjust to the consistency of dal Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with rotis or rice or Juar dodo or Chaawaran Jo dodo 3.5.3251

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