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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Tomato Dal Curry


Preparation time: 10 minutes    Cooking time: 5 minutes     Serves: 1-2


Ingredients:
2 tbsp Sambhar dal 
2 Tomatoes
100 gms finely chopped onion
3 Chillies
4-5 Curry leaves
1 tbsp Coriander leaves
1 tbsp tamarind
Salt to taste
1 tsp Mirch powder
0.5 tsp Mustard seeds
0.5 tsp Urad dal
0.5 tsp Jeera
0.5 tsp heing
2-3 Garlic cloves
Oil


Grind tomato paste:
Tomato

Method:

  •  Wash Sambhar dal thoroughly and boil it in a cooker along with turmeric, curry leaves, heing, garlic. Also add 1-2 drops of oil.
  • Once done i.e. 4-5 whistles are heard, remove the water from the cooker and mash the boiled Sambhar dal nicely.
  • In a kadhai, put oil. When oil is hot, put mustard seeds, urad dal, jeera and heing
  • Fry onion and chillies .
  • Put tomato puree and fry till the tomato boils and smells cooked.
  • Put a little bit of mirch powder (only whn eaten with rice).
  • Add dal into the kadhai
  • After putting some salt to taste, put tamarind pulp into the mixture.
  • To compensate the soar taste, add a very little bit sugar.
  • Stir for sometime and serve hot.
Best served with Ghee Dosa or Idli. Yes GHEE!!



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