Dal or lentils curry is an excellent and ever green combination for chapathi or rice. It is incredibly easy to prepare delicious dal curries in three different flavors. Tasty jeera dal, tomato dal, and masla dal could be swiftly prepared by adding different tempering in the lentils that are cooked and stored beforehand. Try out these easy dal recipes three ways:
MIXED DAL PREPARATION
1 cup red lentils
1 cup moong dal
¼ cup yellow lentils
¼ tsp turmeric powder
1 green chili
¼ tsp ginger
½ tsp salt
Cook the lentils with turmeric powder, green chili, ginger and salt.
JEERA DAL
Ingredients:
1 cup cooked dal mix (recipe above)
1tsp ghee
1½ tsp cumin
¼ tsp asafetida
2 dried chillies
1 tsp green chillies
¼ tsp pepper powder
Coriander leaves
½ tbsp lemon juice
Preparation:
Heat ghee in a pan and sauté cumin, asafetida, dried chillies and green chillies
Add the cooked dal mix
Pour some water into it and boil well
When the curry begins to boil, add the black pepper powder
Add chopped coriander leaves and finish off with lemon juice.
TOMATO DAL CURRY
Ingredients:
1 cup dal mix
1 tsp ghee
1 tsp mustard seeds
½ tsp fenugreek
1 dried chilli
1 green chilli
¼ tsp ginger
½ tsp garlic
Half of an onion
1 tomato
½ tsp chilli powder
½ tsp salt
Coriander leaves
Preparation:
Heat ghee in a pan and add mustard and fenugreek seeds
When they splutter, add dried chilli, green chillies, ginger, and garlic
Sauté well
Into it add the onion and tomato and cook well
Then add the chilli powder and sauté until the raw smell is off
Into it add the cooked dal
Add water and salt as required
When the curry begins to boil, add chopped coriander leaves.
MASALA DAL
Ingredients:
1 cup cooked dal
1 tsp ghee
1 tsp cumin
1 ½ tsp garlic
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp green chillies
Half of an onion
1 tomato
½ tsp salt
½ tsp garam masala
Juice of half a lemon
Preparation:
Heat ghee in a pan and sauté cumin, garlic, ginger and green chillies
Into it add tomato and onion. When the tomato has cooked, add the boiled dal mix
Add salt and water as required and boil
Add garam masala followed by lemon juice
Mix well
You could add dried mango powder instead of lemon juice.
