Toor Daal recipe
Toor Daal recipe

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, toor daal recipe. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Toor Daal recipe is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Toor Daal recipe is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Toor dal (or arhar dal) was made in my house everyday. So obviously when you go out Some people mix several types of lentils while other stick to only toor dal for the recipe. Indian recipes use several different dals (lentils) native to India.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have toor daal recipe using 15 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Toor Daal recipe:
  1. Take 1 1⁄2 cups yellow lentils, cleaned, washed and drained (Toor dal)
  2. Make ready 4 tablespoons oil
  3. Make ready 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  4. Make ready 1 teaspoon fenugreek seeds (methi)
  5. Take 1 teaspoon cumin seed
  6. Get 15 fresh curry leaves, washed and torn
  7. Prepare 3 inches fresh ginger, peeled, washed and finely chopped
  8. Take 2 teaspoons asafoetida powder
  9. Get 2 medium green chilies, washed and chopped
  10. Take 2 medium fresh tomatoes, washed, peeled and chopped
  11. Prepare 11 1⁄4 cups water, divided
  12. Take 2 ⁄3 cup tamarind pulp
  13. Make ready 1 ⁄2 teaspoon red chilli powder
  14. Get 2 teaspoons turmeric powder
  15. Get 4 teaspoons salt

This dal is so flavorful and comforting! Spiced yellow lentils make for a quick and easy dal recipe, perfect for a weeknight or when you don't have much time to prepare dinner. Dal fry recipe with stovetop & Instant pot options. This dal fry is a basic Indian dish Dal fry is a basic dish that can be made with toor dal, moong dal, chana dal or even with.

Instructions to make Toor Daal recipe:
  1. Pressure cook the lentils (toor dal) in a pressure cooker alongwith 6 cups of water until the lentils are tender.
  2. Heat oil in a pot on medium-high flame.
  3. Once it's hot, add mustard seeds, methi seeds and cumin seeds.
  4. Allow to splutter and crackle.
  5. Once they stop doing so, add in the curry leaves and ginger.
  6. Stir-fry for 5 minutes until the raw smell of ginger is gone.
  7. Add asafoetida powder and continue to stir-fry for another 5-7 minutes.
  8. Toss in the green chillies, mix well and continue to stir-fry for another 2-3 minutes.
  9. Then add in the tomatoes and 1/4 cup of water to cook the tomatoes.
  10. Mix well and cook on high flame until the tomatoes are softened.
  11. Add salt, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.
  12. Mix well.
  13. Extract tamarind pulp from tamarind to use as tamarind water.
  14. To do this, soak about 3 inches piece of tamarind in 1 cup of hot water.
  15. Squeeze to extract the tamarind pulp and let it mix with the water to form'tamarind water
  16. There is no need to pass this through a strainer- use it directly!
  17. Measure out 2/3 cup of tamarind water in a cup and add this tamarind water to the tomato mixture.
  18. Mix well and allow it to cook on medium-high flame for 5 minutes.
  19. In the meantime, open the pressure cooker (by this time the lentils will be tender and the whistle would have blown) and with the help of a beater/mashing tool (we use what we call a'mandira' in Hindi. This is a long wooden spoon with a round base that we use for mashing lentils, bananas, etc), in round circular motions, mash the lentils completely, until they mix with the water in which they were being cooked.
  20. Now add 5 cups of water alongwith the lentil and water mixture that was used to cook the lentils. Add the tamarind-tomato mixture, mixing gracefully, as you sing your favourite kitchen song side-by-side!
  21. Allow this to come to a boil. - Lower flame and cook for 10 more minutes on a simmer.
  22. Remove from flame and serve immediately with cooked long-grain white Basmati rice.

This recipe uses toor dal, or yellow split peas, but other varieties include urid, mung and masoor, to name just a few. To me, this recipe redefines dhal - it is so yummy that you. Toor dal or arhar dal is most commonly used dal in Indian. Every region has their own version of making it. Gujarati dal, Maharashtrian varan, Andhra style pappu recipe.

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