Recipe of Favorite Tarka Dal

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tarka dal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tarka Dal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tarka Dal is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tarka dal using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tarka Dal:

1. Prepare 200 g chana dal (dried yellow split peas) soaked for 20 mins
2. Take 2 tomatoes, chopped
3. Make ready 1 small onion, chopped
4. Prepare 1 clove garlic, peeled and left whole
5. Take 2 green chillies, sliced down the middle
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
7. Make ready 4 cm piece fresh ginger, grated or thinly sliced
8. Make ready Handful chopped fresh coriander leaves (cilantro)
9. Make ready to taste Freshly ground salt and black pepper
10. Take To finish
11. Prepare 2 tbsp vegetable oil
12. Get 1 tsp black mustard seeds
13. Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
14. Prepare 2 red Kashmiri chillies, chopped into quarters
15. Take 2 shallots, finely chopped
16. Get 6 curry leaves

Steps to make Tarka Dal:

1. Rinse the yellow split peas until the water runs clear. Place in a large pan and cover with 4cm water. Bring to the boil. Place the rest of the ingredients into the pan and simmer for 40 mins. Add more water if required to stop it drying out. When the peas are soft, mash with a potato masher but leave some texture to the dish.
2. Heat the oil in a pan over a low heat. Add the mustard and cumin seeds, and fry for 20 to 30 seconds, until fragrant. Add the shallots, chillies and curry leaves and fry for 2 to 3 minutes or until the shallots are golden brown.
3. Add to the top of the Dal before serving with a sprinkle of cilantro leaves.

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