My Nephew had gone to Germany to pursue his Masters degree. Being very good at differentiating between tasty food from not so tasty food, he found it difficult to cook his food everyday and that too make it tasty and wholesome. When he appealed to me for some simple recipes of South Indian food, I came up with a series of simple dishes. Here is a recipe for a Basic dal.
Basic Dal Recipe:
Ingredients:-
Toor
dal / Arhar dal - 1 cup.
Tomatoes
Or any other vegetables – 3 nos.
Salt
– to taste
Turmeric
(Haldi) - pinch
Chilli
powder – ½ tsp (tea spoon)
Or
Green
chillies / red chillies – 2 nos.
Mustard
seeds & cumin seeds (Rayi & jeera) – ½ tsp
Curry
leaves, Coriander (Kotmir), optional– half a small bunch
Garlic
pods – a few
Oil
for seasoning (tadka) – 1 tbs
Onion
(chopped) – 1 no.
Method:
Boil
dal in 4 cups of water in the pressure cooker until 2 or 3 whistles.. After the
pressure goes down, open the lid and mash the dal to a paste (If there is
excess water in the dal, remove it and save it in a bowl). If you are cooking
it in a open pot, make sure it is soft. Heat oil in a sauce pan (kadai), add mustard
seeds and cumin seeds, green & / or red chillies, garlic pods. When they
start spluttering, add chopped onion. After the onion is fried, add tomato
pieces. Now put salt, turmeric powder (haldi) and chilli powder. When they are
cooked, add mashed dal. Add water to the consistency you like.
Note:
If other vegetables are used, add them to dal and cook in pressure cooker.
Remove the vegetables and mash dal. Then put them back in the dal. Rest of the
method is same as above.
You
can eat this dal with rice or rotis.
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