- Pick and then rinse ½ cup arhar dal (tuvar dal)a couple of times in fresh water. Soak the arhar dal in water for 15 to 20 minutes. Later drain all the water and place the arhar dal aside. Chop onion, tomatoes and green chili. Measure and keep all the ingredients ready for making tomato pappu. Heat 2 tablespoons oil or ghee in a stovetop pressure cooker. Keep the heat to low. Add ½ teaspoon mustard seeds first. Then add ½ teaspoon cumin. Then add ⅓ to ½ cup chopped onions and 10 to 12 curry leaves Next add 1 green chili (chopped) Sauté the onions stirring often till they become translucent on low to medium-low heat. Then add 1 teaspoon ginger-garlic paste. For making ginger-garlic paste, you can crush 1 inch ginger and 3 to 4 medium garlic cloves to a paste in a mortar-pestle. Then add 2 medium-sized chopped tomatoes or approx 1 to 1.25 cups chopped tomatoes. Stir and mix well. And add ¼ teaspoon red chili powder or cayenne pepper ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (ground turmeric) 1 pinch asafoetida (hing) salt as required. Then add the soaked tuvar dal to the pressure cooker.mix well and add 2 cups of water.Pressure cook on high heat for 7 to 8 whistles or till the dal is cooked completely then after that open the cap and stir well and garnish with coriander.and serve with chapathi,rice
Tomato dal
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By Chandana Guptha
Jan, 7th
591
Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
7
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Ingredients
- Tempering
- Tomato
- Oil
- Turmeric
- Coriander
- Red chilli powder
- Chillies
- Tuvar dal
- Garlic
