Indian Food Recipes

Spicy Dal Recipe

• Wash the dal and boil in the salted water until it is all very soft and most of the water absorbed.
• Stir often.
• Heat the ghee or butter in a saucepan, and add the spices to it. Stir them around for a few minutes, then remove from the heat.
• Pour the dal into the butter and spices, being careful to protect yourself from the spattering which is likely to occur.
• Return to the heat, stirring often, and let it simmer until it has the consistency of a fairly thick sauce.
• Serve very hot.
• Serves: 6

Bharuchi Dal Recipe

Ingredients:

• Cut one onion into small squares.
• Put dal and diced onion in a pressure cooker.
• Cook until tender.
• Slice the other onion thinly.
• Heat up oil in a pot and fry onion until light brown, mix in cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, javantri and whole jeera and fry for 1 minute.
• Then mix in methi and fry for 1-2 more minutes.
• Mix in cut tomatoes and all other ingredients except garam masala to the onion mixture.
• Fry this for 8-10 minutes or until the oil begins to separate.
• Mix in dal to it and mix well with a wooden spoon.
• Cover with a lid and lower the heat and stir fry for 5-8 minutes or until the masala is well blended.
• Mash some of the lentil with a wooden spoon against the side of the pot to thicken the sauce.
• Mix in garam masala and spice up to taste with salt.
• Serve roti or rice.