Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tarka dal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tarka Dal is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tarka Dal is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tarka dal using 16 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tarka Dal:
- Get 200 g chana dal (dried yellow split peas) soaked for 20 mins
- Get 2 tomatoes, chopped
- Get 1 small onion, chopped
- Get 1 clove garlic, peeled and left whole
- Make ready 2 green chillies, sliced down the middle
- Take 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- Take 4 cm piece fresh ginger, grated or thinly sliced
- Make ready Handful chopped fresh coriander leaves (cilantro)
- Get to taste Freshly ground salt and black pepper
- Make ready To finish
- Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 tsp black mustard seeds
- Take 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 2 red Kashmiri chillies, chopped into quarters
- Prepare 2 shallots, finely chopped
- Take 6 curry leaves
Instructions to make Tarka Dal:
- 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.
- 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.
- Add to the top of the Dal before serving with a sprinkle of cilantro leaves.
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