Recipe: Appetizing Arhar Dal

Arhar Dal.

You can cook Arhar Dal using 21 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Arhar Dal

1. You need of To Pressure Cook Arhar Dal.
2. Prepare of Arhar dal, washed and soaked for 30 minutes.
3. You need of tomato, washed and chopped.
4. You need of green chilli, chopped.
5. Prepare of ginger piece chopped.
6. It's of Salt.
7. You need of oil.
8. Prepare of Other ingredients.
9. You need of ginger piece chopped.
10. It's of Juice of 1 lemon.
11. Prepare of powdered sugar.
12. It's of red chilli powder.
13. Prepare of coriander powder.
14. It's of turmeric (haldi) powder.
15. Prepare of To Prepare The Tempering:.
16. It's of clarified butter/ghee.
17. It's of dry whole red chilies.
18. It's of mustard seeds (raie).
19. You need of fennel seeds (saunf).
20. You need of fenugreek seeds (dana methi).
21. It's of asafetida powder (heeng).

Arhar Dal instructions

1. In a pressure cooker add 1 cup of soaked tur dal. Further add 1 chopped tomato, 1 chopped green chilli, salt to taste and ½ inch ginger.
2. Also add 2 cups of water..
3. Pressure cook on high flame till one whistle. Thereafter reduce the flame and cook the dal on low flame for 10-12 minutes. Or till dal is soft and mushy..
4. Mash up the cooked dal. It will be thick as this moment. At the time of serving add in boiled water as per the desired consistency..
5. Next add ½ inch piece of ginger, 1 tsp coriander powder, 1 tsp red chilli powder, 1 tsp powdered sugar, ¼ tsp turmeric powder and juice of ½ lemon..
6. Add 1 cup of water. Let it simmer for 10 minutes..
7. Prepare the tempering. Heat 2 tbsp of ghee or clarified butter. Add ¼ tsp asafetida (heeng), ¼ tsp fenugreek seeds (dana methi), ½ tsp fennel seeds (saunf), 1 tsp mustard seeds (raie). Let it crackle. Add 2 dry red chilies. Cook for 30 seconds..
8. Check and adjust the consistency of the dal. Add prepared tempering to the dal..
9. Cover the lid and cook on low flame for 5 minutes..
10. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot..