Hyderabadi Khatti Dal / Moong Dal Seasoned with Spices

Hope you had a awesome new year celebration. We celebrated this new year with a complete vegetarian feast…I made tomato kulambu, rasam, khatti dal, tawa baigan, valakai poriyal along with rice and papad..And lets not forget the desert, I made dal payasam with lots of cashews and raisans in it..And the meal was a total hit..I took pictures of everything and will post it soon one by one..

So I am starting with this simple hyderabadi dal which is so easy to make but delicious and healthy to eat..There are lots of flavourings going around this dish like garlic, ginger, curry leaves and all yummy stuffs..This dal gets its life by the seasoning which we put in last, try to make the seasoning with ghee which gives a awesome flavour to it..

So without any more delay off you go to the recipe..

Ingrediants:

Split Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu – 1 cup

Green Chilli – 1 chopped finely

Coriander Leaves  / Cilantro – 2 tblspn + for garnishing finely chopped

Ginger – 1 tblspn finely chopped

Garlic -1 tblspn finely chopped

Curry leaves -1 spring

Tamarind Paste –  1 tblspn or to taste

Turmeric Powder -1 tsp

Chilli powder -1 tsp

Salt to taste

For Tempering / Seasoning:

Oil or Ghee – 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku -1 tsp

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam -1 tsp

Dry Red Chilli – 1

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

Wash moong dal in lots of water untill all starch goes away from it. Let it soak for 15 mins.

Drain it and put it in a kadai. Add 4 cups of water, turmeric, green chilli, garlic, ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves, chilli powder and mix well.

Bring this to a boil and let it simmer for 20 – 25 mins untill completely cooked and soft.

Now add tamarind, salt and mix well. Let it simmer for 5 mins.

Make seasoning by heating oil. Add mustard and cumin seeds and let it crackle. Add dry red chilli and curry leaves and mix well.

Pour this seasoning over the dal and mix well.

Garnish with lots of coriander leaves and mix well.

Serve this with rice..

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Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants ( add dry red chilli too)

Take washed and soaked dal in a kadai

Cover with water

add chilli powder

turmeric powder

curry leaves

ginger & garlic

green chilli & coriander leaves

and mix well

bring this to boil

cover and simmer

untill dal is cooked

add tamarind

salt

and mix well

make seasoning by heating oil

add mustard & cumin seeds

dry red chilli

and curry leaves

Pour the seasoning over the dal

and mix well

throw in lots of coriander leaves

and mix well

Serve

taste great with rice