Tarka Dal
Tarka Dal

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Put the lentils and water into a pan, stir well and bring to the boil. Skim off any froth that forms on the surface of the water with a spoon. Cover the pan with a lid and reduce the heat to a.

Tarka Dal is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tarka Dal is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tarka dal using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tarka Dal:
  1. Make ready 200 g chana dal (dried yellow split peas) soaked for 20 mins
  2. Make ready 2 tomatoes, chopped
  3. Make ready 1 small onion, chopped
  4. Take 1 clove garlic, peeled and left whole
  5. Take 2 green chillies, sliced down the middle
  6. Take 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
  7. Prepare 4 cm piece fresh ginger, grated or thinly sliced
  8. Take Handful chopped fresh coriander leaves (cilantro)
  9. Get to taste Freshly ground salt and black pepper
  10. Get To finish
  11. Make ready 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  12. Make ready 1 tsp black mustard seeds
  13. Get 1 tsp cumin seeds
  14. Get 2 red Kashmiri chillies, chopped into quarters
  15. Make ready 2 shallots, finely chopped
  16. Prepare 6 curry leaves

You'll want to add the Tarka right before serving the dal, so gather your ingredients and have them to hand. My favourite way of eating tarka dal is by breaking my chapatti into small pieces and putting them in a bowl full of dal. As the chapatti absorbs the liquid from the lentils, it swells, it becomes really soft and it's heavenly. Heat the oil in a large frypan over a medium heat.

Steps to make Tarka Dal:
  1. Rinse the yellow split peas until the water runs clear. Place in a large pan and cover with 4cm water. Bring to the boil. Place the rest of the ingredients into the pan and simmer for 40 mins. Add more water if required to stop it drying out. When the peas are soft, mash with a potato masher but leave some texture to the dish.
  2. Heat the oil in a pan over a low heat. Add the mustard and cumin seeds, and fry for 20 to 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add the shallots, chillies and curry leaves and fry for 2 to 3 minutes or until the shallots are golden brown.
  3. Add to the top of the Dal before serving with a sprinkle of cilantro leaves.

Add half the mustard seeds and half the cumin seeds. Add the garlic, ginger, curry leaves and half the onion. Dhal is yellow dried split peas cooked and mixed together with turmeric, ginger and plenty of garlic. That wonderful, creamy, spiced lentil dish that goes beautifully with every Indian meal. It definitely needs to be on your list when you think about cooking Indian.

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