Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, arhar dal. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Arhar dal recipe - this is a lightly spiced and delicious Punjabi arhar dal fry made with pigeon pea lentils (toor dal or yellow lentils). There are many ways of making dal or lentils and this recipe is one. Arhar dal is one of the most common dish that is made in homes on daily basis.
Arhar Dal is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Arhar Dal is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook arhar dal using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Arhar Dal:
- Make ready To Pressure Cook Arhar Dal
- Take Arhar dal, washed and soaked for 30 minutes
- Get tomato, washed and chopped
- Prepare green chilli, chopped
- Take ginger piece chopped
- Get Salt
- Get oil
- Make ready Other ingredients
- Prepare ginger piece chopped
- Prepare Juice of 1 lemon
- Prepare powdered sugar
- Take red chilli powder
- Prepare coriander powder
- Make ready turmeric (haldi) powder
- Make ready To Prepare The Tempering:
- Take clarified butter/ghee
- Get dry whole red chilies
- Get mustard seeds (raie)
- Make ready fennel seeds (saunf)
- Prepare fenugreek seeds (dana methi)
- Make ready asafetida powder (heeng)
Arhar dal is a common word in North India for Toor Dal. Indian Toor Dal (Arhar Dal) recipes. Panch Ratani Dal. toor dal recipes. Apart from protein, toovar dal also provides many nutrients our body needs such as iron, folic acid.
Instructions to make Arhar Dal:
- In a pressure cooker add 1 cup of soaked tur dal. Further add 1 chopped tomato, 1 chopped green chilli, salt to taste and ½ inch ginger
- Also add 2 cups of water.
- Pressure cook on high flame till one whistle. Thereafter reduce the flame and cook the dal on low flame for 10-12 minutes. Or till dal is soft and mushy.
- Mash up the cooked dal. It will be thick as this moment. At the time of serving add in boiled water as per the desired consistency.
- Next add ½ inch piece of ginger, 1 tsp coriander powder, 1 tsp red chilli powder, 1 tsp powdered sugar, ¼ tsp turmeric powder and juice of ½ lemon.
- Add 1 cup of water. Let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- Prepare the tempering. Heat 2 tbsp of ghee or clarified butter. Add ¼ tsp asafetida (heeng), ¼ tsp fenugreek seeds (dana methi), ½ tsp fennel seeds (saunf), 1 tsp mustard seeds (raie). Let it crackle. Add 2 dry red chilies. Cook for 30 seconds.
- Check and adjust the consistency of the dal. Add prepared tempering to the dal.
- Cover the lid and cook on low flame for 5 minutes.
- Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.
Toor dal or arhar dal is most commonly used dal in Indian. There is another punjabi dal fry recipe made from arhar dal. Most of the ingredients and procedure for this recipe vs dal fry recipe are same. Learn to make Arhar Dal or Toor Dal easily with Samta Sagar. Indian recipes use several different dals (lentils) native to India.
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