Thursday, June 19, 2014

MASOOR DAL TADKA | RESTAURANT STYLE DAL TADKA RECIPE

Dal-tadka
Whenever i made dal at home, though everyone say it is good, i somehow feel it is not like the one we have in restaurants. Since i am not satisfactory, i haven't posted the dal tadka recipe so far. I had a pack of Masoor dal which i bought from Delhi during our visit in March. When i was casually talking to a friend few days back over phone, i told her i have a pack of Masoor dal and wanted to make a dal tadka. She immediately gave me the recipe. She learnt that recipe of dal from her aunty and she told it will be very nice. When i made it it tasted so awesome and it was like the one which we eat in restaurants. finally i got the perfect taste and i thought i should share this with you all. This can be made with yellow moong dal too.


Ingredients
Masoor dal tadka

  Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time :20 mins |   Serves : 2-3

    Massor dal | Yellow moong dal   1/2 cup
    Tomato     1
    Ginger grated  1 tsp
    Onion     1
    Garlic      3 pods
    Red chilly powder  1/4 tsp
    Green Chilly     1
    Cumin powder   1/4 tsp
    Kasoori methi     a pinch
    Ghee | Butter      2 tsp
    Salt        As needed
    Turmeric powder    1/4 tsp
     Red chilly    1
    Lemon Juice   1 tsp
   
    


Dal-tadka
Method:
  • Chop the tomato into small cubes . Wash the dal and pressure cook this with turmeric powder and grated ginger.
  • Pressure cook till 4-5 whistles.
Masoor dal Cook dal
  • Mash the dal nicely once it is cooked. 
cooked-dal Mashed dal
  • Chop the onions, garlic and green chilly very finely.
  • In a pan add the ghee |butter and and saute the onions, garlic,redchilly and green chilly in a very low flame.
Garlic+chilli onion
  • While it is roasting , in a separate pan add the cooked dal and add the red chilli powder, salt and cumin powder.
  • Let this boil for few minutes. Add the onion garlic tadka to the dal and switch off the flame. 
  • Cover this and with a lid and let the flavours get infused into it. After 2 minutes open the cover and squeeze few drops of lemon juice and kasoori methi. Mix well. 
dal Dal-tadka
  • Dal tadka is ready to serve. Serve with hot rotis or jeera rice. 
 Dal-tadka

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