Cousin Helen's Dal

"A quick and easy tomato dal from Hyderabad, India."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
10 dish of tomato dal
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ingredients

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directions

  • Wash dal thoroughly.
  • Boil the dal (lentils).
  • Set aside.
  • In a separate frying pan, heat oil.
  • Add mustard,cummin seeds,dry red chillies and curry leaves when the oil is hot.
  • Lower the heat and put in the cayenne pepper, turmeric,coriander powder (according to your taste) Add chopped tomatoes (no skins) and cook this on slightly higher heat adding a little water as necessary.
  • Add tamarind juice and add this mixture to the boiled dal.
  • Bring it all to a boil.

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Reviews

  1. This daal was quite good, and definitely quick and easy. I didn't know what the conversion would be, so I used 1/2 tablespoon of tamarind concentrate dissolved in hot water, which made it quite tart, but that was fine by me. I used 1/8 teaspoon of cayenne, but probably should have used more, as I omitted the dried chilies (didn't have any). Half a tablespoon of oil was ample here. I did add a sprinkle of salt to this. Served 3 as a meal with chapati and salad.
     
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