Dal Tadka Recipe, Restaurant Style Dal Tadka Recipe
Author: Gopi Patel
Recipe type: Dal
Cuisine: Punjabi
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Serves: 2
- Toor dal (pigeon pea): 1/3 cup
- Chana dal (bengal gram): 1/4 cup
- Tomato: 1/2 cup
- Onion: 1/2 cup
- Clarified butter (ghee): 3 tbsp
- Dry red chili: 2 pieces
- Cumin seeds (jeera): 2 tsp
- Ginger (adrakh): 1 tsp
- Garlic (lehsun): 1 tsp
- Kashmiri red chili powder: 1 tsp
- Coriander powder (dhaniya powder): 1 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder (haldi): 1/2 tsp
- Salt: 2 tsp
- Fresh coriander (hara dhaniya): 1 tbsp
- Rinse the toor and chana dal in thoroughly and soak in water for 2-3 hours.
- Finely chop the onions, tomatoes, ginger and garlic.
- Take soaked dal in pressure cooker and add turmeric powder and salt.
- Pressure cook the daals for 5-7 minutes (3-4 whistles) and let it cool down completely.
- Heat clarified butter (ghee) in a non-stick pan or kadhai and once melt add ginger and garlic. Saute for a minute till raw flavor of ginger is gone.
- Add chopped onions and saute for 2 minutes until onion becomes golden.
- Now add chopped tomatoes and cook until tomato softens.
- Add red chili powder (lal mirch powder) and coriander powder (dhaniya powder) in onion tomato and cook for 1 minute.
- Season the onion tomato with required salt.
- Now pour the boiled daal in kadhai and mix well with onion tomato gravy.
- Add water if required and let daal comes to boil. Simmer for 2 minutes.
- Add freshly chopped coriander leaves (cilantro/dhaniya) and combine well with daal.
- Just before serving heat clarified butter (ghee) in a tadka pan and once hot add dried red chili.
- Add cumin seeds (jeera) in tadka and let them flutters.
- Pour the tadka on dal and serve right away.
- Dal tadka (restaurant style) is ready to serve. Serve dal tadka with jeera rice and punjabi sabzi and roti / naan / paratha.
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