Dal fry is a popular Indian lentil recipe made with pigeon pea lentils, onions, tomatoes and spices. What you get after cooking the yellow lentils in an onion-tomato base is a delicious, creamy yellow lentils which is mildly spiced and slightly tangy to taste. This dal fry recipe tastes more like what is served in restaurants.

Ingredients

• Arhar dal/ Tuvar dal 1 cup
• Turmeric powder 1/2 teaspoon
• Red chili powder 1/4 teaspoon
• Tomato, chopped 1
• Salt to taste
• Ghee 2 tablespoon
• Mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon
• Cumin seeds 1/2 teaspoon
• Garlic, chopped 1 teaspoon
• Onion, chopped 1
• Tomato, chopped 1
• Salt 1/8 teaspoon
• Curry leaves 5-6
• Green chili, chopped 2

Directions

1. Clean, wash and soak the dal for half an hour. Take the dal into pressure cooker along with 2 glass of water and add salt and chopped tomato.
2. Add red chilly powder and turmeric powder. Close the lid of pressure cooker and pressure cook it for one whistle on high flame, then keep the flame low and cook for another 5-6 minutes till the dal is properly cooked.
3. Heat the pan with ghee and temper with mustard and cumin seeds. When it starts crackling add garlic. Fry it till the garlic is light golden in the color. Add chopped onion, curry leaves and green chilly.
4. Fry the onions till light golden in the color, then add tomato and salt. Cook it on medium flame till the tomato is mushy and ghee shows separately. Switch off the flame.
5. Add fried ingredients and coriander leaves into the dal, mix it well. Delicious Dal fry is ready to serve, Serve hot with bati, chapatti or rice.

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