Toor dal

Name: Toor dal
Total time: 1200 s
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 bowl Arhar dal; 3 bowls water; 1 tomato; 1/4 tsp turmeric powder; To taste salt; 2 Tbsp pure ghee; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 1/8 tsp asafoetida; 1/4 tsp red chilli powder; 1/2 tsp garam masala; 2 ,whole dried red chilli; 1 tsp kasuri methi

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

New Delhi

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Arhar dal is the most popular and widely consumed dal
in India and cooked most often in Indian households.
Toor dal is very simple and
nutritious and is rich in protein, the building block of good health, good for Weight watchers: It is high in dietary fiber, and very easy to cook with simple tempering of cumin seeds and asafetida. The popular south Indian sambhar is cooked with Toor dal.

Aruna Thapar @Arunathapar27

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Ingredients

20 minutes

2 servings

1 bowlArhar dal
3 bowlswater
1tomato
1/4 tspturmeric powder
To tastesalt
Tadka/Tempering
2 Tbsp pure ghee
1 tspcumin seeds
1/8 tspasafoetida
1/4 tspred chilli powder
1/2 tspgaram masala
2,whole dried red chilli
1 tspkasuri methi

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Steps

20 minutes

1

Wash arhar dal in running water 2-3 times. Put it in pressure cooker. Add water, salt, turmeric powder and grated tomato and pressure cook till 7-8 whistles. Switch off the flame and let pressure releases automatically.
2

In a pan and cooking Oil. Put cumin seeds and when cumin seeds splutter add asafoetida and saute for 30 seconds. Add red chilli powder, garam masala and kasuri methi and dried whole red chilli and saute for 1 minute. Transfer this tadka in dal and stir.
3

Serve hot with chapatti or rice garnished with chopped coriander leaves