Spread the Joy!
Happy Saturday Guys…Hope you all are getting ready to enjoy your weekend..I have just started to do it..Today we had a awesome breakfast with chapatti and green peas curry..It was delicious and good for my diet..I really loved it after 5 days of fruits and vegetables diet..The good impact from that diet is, it controlled my hunger and reduced my appetite, which is really great..
Coming to today’s recipe it is a healthy dal which is flavoured with tomatoes, cumin and all kinds of yummy stuffs..I can’t tell you how good it is for you..At the same time it taste heavenly..
I hope you will love it for sure and see you all with another recipe soon..
Ingrediants:
Toor Dal / Tuvaram Paruppu / Split Pigeon Peas – 1 cup
Tomatoes – 2 large chopped
Green Chilli – 1 slit
Salt to taste
Water – 4 cups
For Seasoning:
Oil / Ghee – 1 tblspn
Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Fenugreek Seeds / Methi / Vendayam – ½ tsp
Dry Red Chilli – 1
Curry leaves – 1 spring
Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
Chilli Powder – 1 tsp
Coriander Powder / Malli Podi– 1 tblspn
Tomato – 1 small chopped
Method:
Wash dal in several changes of water and let it soak for 15 mins.
Now take in a pot and add water, tomatoes and green chilli and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20-25 mins untill the dal is cooked completely..It should be completely mushy.
Now add salt and mix well..Keep this in simmering..Adjust the water level if you need..
Heat a tawa or kadai. Add oil in it. Add mustard seeds , cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, dry red chilli, curry leaves, turmeric powder, chilli powder,coriander powder and tomatoes. Mix this for a min.
Pour this seasoning over the dal and mix well.
Let it simmer for 5 more minutes.
Serve with a bed of rice or roti.
Pictorial:
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| Take all your ingrediants |
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| Take dal, tomatoes and green chilli in a kadai |
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| add water |
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| bring it to a boil |
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| cover and simmer untill cooked |
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| add salt |
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| and mix well |
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| now make seasoning..heat oil |
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| add mustard and cumin seeds |
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| in goes fenugreek seeds |
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| dry red chilli and curry leaves |
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| add turmeric powder |
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| chilli and coriander powder |
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| and mix well |
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| add tomatoes |
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| and toss well |
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| add it to the dal |
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| and mix well |
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| Serve |
Spread the Joy!
Thanks for your easy and yummy recipes! Can you share your recipe for Parapu from snake gourd please? Thanks!
This tomato dal is one of our family favorites..would love to have with rice and a dollop of ghee
good one. somehow i didnt see this post up on my blog dashboard.
and err aarthi what about khatai i mean no nimbu or is tomatoes enough for khatai.
if so i would make this one and u used no onion or garlic.
new variety of having dal
good one aarthi
yummy kulambu
my fav one..my mom is an expert in making this…….loved it
this is my all time fav though!:)
Dal looks very tempting. Yum Yum.
tomato dal looks delicious. I can smell aroma here.
delicious looking flavourful dal
love this….healthy….yummy too
Wow, delicious kulambu Aarthi..
Yummy looking paruppu.
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Its yummy and comforting dal.
@Meena
Tomatoes have enough sourness to give for this dish…so no need to add any more sour agents…if you wish you can add a small squeeze of lemon juice…
@Ashwin Baindur
I will post it soon dear…
Lovely dal recipe…bookmarked 😉
Tomato deal looks very simple to make and yummy… apt for some lazy days when we have no interest to go intensive cooking.. 🙂
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Yummy Dhal ..would love to have it with hot rice or Chapathi
I'm not an expert when it comes to this. Didn't even know this was possible. Useful read, appreciate your posting this.
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@AnonymousYes i have deleted those blogs
This is easy recipies.