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Masoor Dal
Prep Time
15
minutes
minutes
Cook Time
20
minutes
minutes
Total Time
35
minutes
minutes
Servings
2
-3
Author
Puja
Ingredients
Masoor Dal - 1 cup
Onion - 1
finely chopped
Tomato - 1
finely chopped
Green Chilli - 1
chopped
Ginger - 1/2 tsp
finely chopped
Garlic - 1/2 tsp
finely chopped
Curry leaves - a few
chopped
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Red Chili Powder - 1/4 tsp or
to taste
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Salt - as per required
Ghee - 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp
Water - as per needed
Instructions
In a pressure cooker, place a cup of masoor dal and 2 cups of water and pressure cook upto 2 whistles or till the dal is soft.
Mash dal, add half a cup of water and salt. You can add more water if you want and keep it aside.
Heat Ghee in a cooking vessel/kadahai, add cumin seeds.
Once the seeds starts spluttering add curry leaves, chopped ginger, and chopped garlic and fry for few seconds.
Now add onion, chopped green chilli, turmeric and salt and fry until the onion are slighlty brown in color.
Now add tomatoes and chili powder as per the taste and mix well.
Cook until the tomatoes gets little mushy.
Add the cooked dal to this mixture and mix well.
Cook dal on a medium flame until it starts boiling.
Once it starts boiling add little more ghee and remove from the fire.
Serve with rotis or white rice.
Notes
If you want you can add a dash of lemon juice.