Toor Daal recipe
Toor Daal recipe

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Indian recipes use several different dals (lentils) native to India. Toor dal, also known as arhar, is a popular dish in almost every household. Toor Dal Recipe is the famous Indian Lentils can be easily made with boiled Toor Dal, Onion, Tomatoes, Ginger and Garlic.

Toor Daal recipe is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Toor Daal recipe is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have toor daal recipe using 15 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

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.

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.

Gujarati dal, Maharashtrian varan, Andhra style pappu recipe. Lovely recipe for Indian Toor Dal- a from-scratch version of a classic Indian lentil curry. Toor dal (or arhar dal) was made in my house everyday. So obviously when you go out, you don't want to eat what you anyway eat everyday. But my dad loved Dal Tadka and so we always ended up.

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