Dal Tadka Recipe | Dhaba style Dal Tadka at home
Dal Tadka Recipe is a very popular North Indian dish for roti and rice. Particularly it is best accompaniment for Jeera Rice.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Toor Dal
- 1 tbsp Chana Dal
- 1 tbsp Masoor Dal
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 1 tbsp Garlic
- 1 tbsp Ginger
- Salt to Taste
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
- 1/4 tsp Coriander Powder
- 1/4 tsp Garam Masala
- 1/4 tsp Kasoori Methi
- Fistful of Fresh Coriander Leaves
Instructions
- Soak toor dal, chana dal and masoor dal for an hour or more.
- Finely chop onion and tomato.
- Ginger, garlic and green chillies also have to be finely chopped.
- In a pressure cooker add soaked dals, a pinch of salt and turmeric powder.
- Along with them add 1 slit green chilli and ginger.
- Pressure cook the dals for 4 or 5 whistles.
- Once the pressure cool down, remove the green chilli and mash the dals well.
- In a thick bottom, wide pan heat ghee.
- Add cumin seeds and fry them till they crackle.
- Add finely chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies.
- Sauté them till the aroma come.
- Add chopped onion and fry till it turn brown.
- Add turmeric powder and add finely chopped tomatoes also.
- Fry them in high flame while stirring continuously.
- Keep moving the pan also, and keep the pan little bit tilted.
- So that the flame touches the vegetables and they turn smoky.
- Add all the spices, salt, red chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala.
- Keep stirring.
- Add little water to avoid burning of spices.
- Add mashed dal and allow it to cook for a while.
- Once the ghee start separating switch off the flame.
- Add kasuri methi and freshly chopped coriander leaves.
- Serve dal tadka with rice, roti.
Notes
Cook the onions and tomatoes on a high flame only.
Let the flame touches the vegetable to get the smoky flavour.
Do not burn though.
Pressure cook the dals and mash it immediately.