Dal Tadka Dhaba Style

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 cup split dal

  split toor, split moong or split red lentils
• 1 tbsp ghee

  Use coconut oil or cooking oil for vegan options
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1/4 tso asafoetida
• 1 tsp green chilies

  finely chopped
• 1 tbsp ginger

  grated
• 1 tbsp garlic

  minced
• 1 cup onions

  diced
• 3 whole tomatoes

  diced
• 1 tsp salt

  to taste
• 1/2 tsp turmeric

  ground
• 1 tbsp ghee
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 whole red chillies

  dried, whole
• 1 tsp chilli powder

  Kashmiri or other mild variety
• 1 tbsp cilantro leaves

  fine chopped

Instructions

• 1 Boil dal in pressure cooker or stovetop with 4 cups of water.
• 2 Heat ghee in a pan on low heat, and add asafoetida, cumin seeds till the
  sputter.
• 3 Add onions, green chilies, ginger and garlic and fry till cooked well.
• 4 Add tomatoes, turmeric, salt and corrainder powder.
• 5 Add cooked dal in this mixture, add saltto taste and simmer for 10 minutes.
• 6 While it simmers, prepare the tadka.
• 7 Heat ghee or oil to a smoking point and all tadka ingredients.
• 8 Add this to the simmering dal.
• 9 Once cooked, turn of the heat.
• 10 Place a heat-proof bowl over the dal.
• 11 Burn 2 bay leaves and add them to the bowl and cover the vessel to let the
  smokey flavour seep in.
• 12 Serve hot with naan, roti ot steamed rice.

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