Dal Fry

Ingredients:
2 bowl Boiled dal
1 chopped onion
1 chopped tomato
1 chopped green chilli
1/2 tesp garlic paste
1/2 tbsp ghee
1 tesp cumin seeds
salt to taste
1 tesp chilli pd
1/2 tesp garam masala
2 tesp green coriander leaves
Method:
1.Heat ghee in a fry pan.Add cumin seeds.Let it splutter.
2.Add chopped onion and cook as it changes colour.Add garlic paste.Add all spices and tomato.Cook till it leave edge of pan.
3.Add boiled dal and cook well.Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with chapati/rice.

Panchmeli Dal

This is basically made in Rajasthan with Bati.Its a traditional dish,and its called so because to cook it we need 5 types of Lentils .Do you want to try it, you need.............. Ingredients:
1/2 cup chilkewali moong dal (split green gram)
1/2 cup lal masoor dal (red lentils)
1/2 cup arhar/ toovar dal (split pigeon peas)
¼ cup chana dal (split Bengal gram)
¼ cup dhuli urad dal (split black gram)
Salt to taste
1 tesp turmeric powder
For Tempering:
1 tsp cumin seeds
A pinch of asafoetida
1 tesp ginger paste
1 chopped green chili
1 tesp Redchilli pd
1 tesp coriander powder
6-7 cloves
1 bay leaf
1 tbsp ghee
Method:
1. Mix all the above dals and wash them. Soak them for at least 1 hour. Drain and boil them in a pressure cooker with 2inch above water level by adding turmeric powder, salt green chillies and ginger paste.
2. After opening the cooker ,heat ghee in a fry pan.
3. Add cumin seeds.When they splutter add hing, cloves, bay leaf.
4. Add a spoon of red chilli pd,coriander pd and boiled dal.Cook it till it mixes with masala.
5.Garnish with coriander leaves.Serve with Bati/chapati/Rice.

Modifications:

We can temper it with onion and tomato gravy as Dal fry.

Sambhar Vada

Ingredients:
2 cup soaked urad dal
1/2 cup rawa
1 chopped onion
2 tesp chopped coriander leaves
1 tesp chopped green chilli
salt to taste
Oil to fry
Method:
1. Grind Dal smoothly in a mixer.Add all the other ingredients and mix well.
2. Heat oil.Take a small part of paste keep it on a flat bowl.Make a hole in the centre.Leave it in heated oil.Deep fry each vada.
3.Serve it with sambhar and coconut chutney.

Dal Dhokla

This is basically a Gujrati dish.It looks lengthy to cook but its not.It takes only 15 mins.It is also very healthy recipie.For it you need.............
For Dal:
1 cup Toohar(Arahar) Dal(Soaked)
salt to taste
1/2 tesp turmeric pd
For Dhokla:
1 cup Wheat Flour
salt to taste
1/2 tesp red chiili pd
1/4 tesp turmeric pd
1 tesp cumin seeds
1/2 tesp Rock(Kala) salt
1/2 tesp Black Pepper
1/4 tesp Garam Masala
For Seasoning:
1 tbsp ghee
1/2 tesp Cumin seeds
a pinch of hing(asafoetida)
2-3 Dry Red chilli
8-10 Kari patta(meetha neem)
1/2 tesp red chilli pd(optinal)
Method:
1.Mix all the ingredients of dhokla and knead the dough with water.
2.Now take a portion of dough and flatten it till the desired thickness.Better you keep it 1 cm thick.
3.Now Cut it into square pieces using knife or a cutter.
4.Keep all the dhoklas on the soaked dal.
5.Add salt and turmic pd in dal with dhoklas in a cooker with 3 cups of water.
6.Cook it till 3-4 whistles.
7.After opening the cooker check whether dal has cooked.Now heat ghee.add cumin seeds,hing,dry red chilli and curry patta.When crackles add 1/2 tesp red chilli pd and put it into Dal.
8.Serve it with chopped onions,coriander leaves and green chutney.
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