Dal Makhani

Creamy Dal Makhani is one of the most loved Punjabi recipe...it can be prepared easily by following these steps...

Ingredients

• Whole Black Gram /Sabut Urad – 1 Cup
• Red Kidney Beans / Rajma – ¼ Cup
• Bay Leaf – 1
• Black Cardamom – 2
• Chopped Onions – 1/2 cup
• Ginger, Grated – 1 Tsp
• Garlic, Grated – 1 Tsp
• Salt To Taste
• Butter – 3 Tbsp
• Cumin Seeds – 2 Tsp
• Red Chili Powder 1 Teaspoon
• Tomatoes, Chopped – 2 Medium
• Coriander Powder – 1 Tbsp
• Red Chili Powder – 2 Tsp Or As Per Taste
• Garam Masala Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Fresh Cream - 3 Tbsp 
• Kasuri Methi – 2 Tbsp


Method:

1. Rinse and soak sabut urad and rajma overnight.
2. Drain and rinse again.
3. Boil sabut urad and rajma in 3 cups of water with salt and pressure cook for 8-1o whistles or till both the dals are soft and cooked completely.
4. Let the pressure come off and open the lid to see if the rajma is totally soft. Mash the dals with the back of a ladle. 
5. Heat 3 tbsp of butter in a pan and add cumin seeds.
6. When they start to splutter, add ginger, garlic, Bay Leaf, Black Cardamom, onions and sauté till they become golden in color.
7. Add tomatoes and sauté for 3-4 minutes.
8. Now add red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder and sauté till the tomatoes are cooked.
9. Add this tempering to the cooked dal. Mix well and cook on high for 2 minutes.
10. Add milk/cream and ¼ cup of water and stir well.
11. Cook on low heat for about 15-20 minutes. Keep on stirring occasionally to make sure that dals don’t stick to the bottom of the pan. 
12. Add Kasuri methi and 1 tbsp of the butter and cook for 2 more minutes.
13. Dal should be really soft and well blended. Turn off the heat and garnish with fresh cream and coriander leaves.

Methi Dal Dhokli

Methi Dal Dhokli is a delicious treat from the Gujarati cuisine.

Ingredients:

 For Dal 
• ½ cup Toovar Dal (arhar) 
• ¼ tsp Mustard Seeds 
• ¼ tsp Cumin Seeds (jeera) 
• ¼ tsp Fenugreek Seeds (methi) 
• 10 Curry Leaves (kadipatta) 
• 2 Cloves (laung/ lavang) 
• 2 sticks Cinnamon (dalchini) 
• 1 Bay Leaf (tejpatta) 
• 2 small Red Chilies 
• ¼ tsp Asafoetida (hing) 
• 4 pieces Cocum (soaked) 
• ¼ cup Chopped Tomatoes 
• ½ tsp Turmeric Powder (haldi) 
• ½ Lemon Juice 
• 4 Green Chilies (slit) 
• ½ tsp Chili Powder 
• 1 tsp Ginger (grated) 
• 1 tsp Ghee 
• ½ tsp Jaggery 
• Salt to taste

For Dhoklis 
• 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour 
• 3/4 tsp Fenugreek Leaves (methi) (chopped) 
• ½ tsp Turmeric Powder (haldi) 
• ½ tsp Chili Powder 
• ¼ tsp Asafoetida (hing) 
• 1 tsp Oil 
• Salt (to taste) 
• ¼ cup Chopped Coriander Leaves (to garnish)

Method:

For Dal

1. Wash the toovar dal and soak it in water for 15 minutes.
2. Thereafter, cook it in the pressure cooker, till it whistles thrice. Keep it aside and allow it to cool.
3. When it is slightly cool, whisk dal until it gets smooth.
4. Take a pan and heat ghee in it. Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, curry leaves, cloves, cinnamon sticks, bay leaf, red chilies and asafoetida in it and saute, till the mixture starts emitting fragrance.
5. Now, add cooked dal to the above mixture, along with 3 cups of water, cocum, tomatoes, turmeric powder, lemon juice, salt, green chilies, chili powder, ginger and jaggery and cook it on simmer flame for 10 minutes. 

For Dhoklis

1. Mix all the ingredients required for preparing dhoklis and knead to form firm dough.
2. Now, divide this dough into six equal pieces and roll out into thin chapattis.
3. Put a non stick tawa over the flame and roast the chapattis on it, from both the sides. Keep them aside. 

To Serve

1. Before serving, boil the dal, put dhoklis in it and turn the flame on simmer.
2. Stir it every 2- 3 minutes.
3. Remove from the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.
4. Serve hot.

Moong Dal Curry

Moong Dal Curry is a very delicious  Bengali recipe. Learn how to make Moong Dal Curry by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp Coriander Powder 
• 1 tsp Cumin Powder 
• 1 tsp Oil 
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder 
• 1/2 tbsp Coriander Leaves (chopped) 
• 1/2 cup Dried Moong Dal 
• 1 Onion (finely chopped) 
• 2 Tomatoes (chopped) 
• 2 Chilies (slit) 
• 3 Garlic Cloves (minced) 
• 1 Ginger (small) (grated) 
• Salt to taste

How to make Moong Dal Curry:

• Wash and soak the moong dal in water for 2-3 hours.
• Boil the dal in 1 cup of water for 10-12 min until it becomes soft and keep aside.
• Heat up oil in a pan, put onions and fry it until turns brown color.
• Add ginger, tomatoes, garlic and chilies and cook for 5-6 min.
• Put cumin, turmeric, coriander powder and sauté for a min.
• Put the boiled dal and cook until the mixture becomes thick.
• With the coriander leaves garnish it.

Suggestions:
Serve with rice.

Maa Ki Daal

Maa Ki Daal is a delicious recipe. Learn how to prepare Maa Ki Daal by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:
• 250 gm Black Lentils (Urad Daal) (soak 4 hours) 
• 20 gm Coriander Powder 
• ½ tsp Chili Powder 
• 20 gm Garlic Paste 
• 10 cloves Garlic (slit in mid) 
• 20 gm Ginger Paste 
• 3 Green Chilies (slit in mid) 
• 5 tbsp Tomato Puree 
• 3 tbsp Butter 
• 100 gm Cream (Malai) 
• Water (as per requirement) 
• Salt to taste

How to make Maa Ki Daal:
• Wash the lentils and peel off the skin.
• Put the lentils to the pressure cooker and add water to it.
• Fix the gasket inside the cooker lid and attach it to the base.
• Put it on medium heat and after three whistles,keep it off the stove.
• Allow it to cool and then put the dal to a vessel where you can slightly mash it with a heavy ladle.
• Take a heavy large pan and place it over at medium heat.
• Pour the butter in it
• Add the ginger and garlic pastes.
• Stir for three minutes then add green chilies, tomato puree, chili powder and salt one after the other.
• Stir the ingredients for 5 minutes and the boiled lentils.
• For about ten minutes stir the lentils then add cream and chopped coriander.

Suggestions:
Best served it with roomali roti, rice, paratha, naan or tandoori roti.

Dal Makhani

Dal Makhani is a very popular Indian recipe. Learn how to make/prepare Dal Makhni by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:


• 1 cup Whole Urad Daal

• 1 Onion (finely chopped)

• 3 Green chilies (finely chopped)

• 1 tbsp Red Kidney Beans

• A few Coriander Leaves (chopped)

• 4-5 flakes Garlic Paste

• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds

• 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder

• 1 Tomato (finely chopped)

• 1/2 cup Stirred Curd

• 1/2 cup Fresh Stirred Cream

• 2 tbsp Butter

• 1 inch Ginger Piece (chopped)

• 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder

• 1/2 tsp Garam Masala

• Red Chili Powder to taste

• Salt to taste


How to make Dal Makhani:

• Soak kidney beans overnight in water.

• Put urad daal and kidney beans with water and a little salt in a pressure cooker and cook for about 25 minutes.

• Mash the mixture and again cook for 15-20 minutes.

• Add cream and curd to the daal.

• Heat oil in a kadhai.

• Saute cumin seeds and add garlic paste.

• Fry the paste till light brown.

• Add onions and saute till golden brown.

• Add tomatoes, ginger, and green chilies.

• Fry till tomatoes turn soft.

• Now add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chili powder, and salt.

• Fry for a few minutes.

• Reduce the flame to medium. Add daal and stir.

• Remove from the flame as soon as it begins to boil.

• Add garam masala powder.

• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and add a dash of butter.

• Serve with naan or hot rice.

Gujarati Dal

Gujarati Dal Recipe is a yummy recipe. Learn how to make/prepare Gujarati Dal Recipe by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:

• 300 gms Toovar Dal

• 1 big Tomato (chopped)

• 1 Lemon(juice)

• ½ tsp Turmeric Powder

• 4 Green Chilies (chopped)

• 45 gms Jaggery ( Grated)

• 1 tsp Chili Powder

• 6 Cocum Pieces

• 30 gms Peanuts

• 2 Red Chilies

• ¼ tsp Fenugreek Seeds

• ¼ tsp Cumin Seeds

• ¼ tsp Mustard Seeds

• 12 Curry Leaves

• 2 Bay Leaves

• 3 Cloves

• Oil

• Salt (to taste)

• Coriander Leaves ( Garnishing)

How to make Gujarati Dal:

• Wash dal and peanuts in 750 ml of water.

• Once dal is cooked, mix it till it become smooth.

• Heat up the pan with oil and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves , cloves, bay leaves , fenugreek, asafoetida and red chilies.

• Add tomato, cocum, chili powder, green chilies, turmeric powder, jaggery and fry it for 3 min.

• Add 750 ml water, salt , dal and lime juice.

• Cook it for 15 min in low flame and garnish with coriander leaves.

• Serve it.

Moong Ki Dal

Moong Ki Dal is a yummy sweet preparation for dal. Learn how to make/prepare Moong Ki Dal by following this easy recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Split Green Gram Skinless (Dhuli Moong Dal)

• 1 cup Milk

• 1/4 inch piece Ginger (peeled and crushed)

• Salt to taste

• 1/2 tsp Cumin Seeds

• A pinch of Asafoetida (Hing)

• 3/4 tsp Turmeric Powder

• 2 Cloves

• 1 tsp grated Jaggery (Gur)

• 3 tbsp Ghee

How to make Moong Ki Dal:

• Soak dal for half an hour, drain the water and keep aside.

• Pressure cook the dal with salt, turmeric powder and water and bring it to boil. Simmer in low heat till the dal is nearly done.

• Add crushed ginger, hot milk and jaggery and stir to mix well and cook for another 10 minutes. Check the seasoning.

• In a pan, heat ghee and add cumin seeds, asafoetida and cloves.

• When it splutters, add the dal and stir.

• Serve hot.

Red Lentil Dal

Ingredients:

• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 4 cloves Garlic (minced)
• 1 tbsp fresh Ginger (peeled and minced)
• 1 cup Onion (chopped)
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder
• 2 cups Tomatoes (chopped)
• 2 cups Cauliflower Florets (chopped)
• 1 cup dried Red Lentils (soaked in water for half an hour)
• 2 1/2 cups Water
• 1 tbsp fresh cilantro (minced)
• 2 tbsp fresh lime juice
• 3/4 tsp salt

How to make Red Lentil Dal:

• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan, over medium high heat. Add the cumin seeds and let them splutter.
• Add garlic, ginger and onion. Saute for 2 minutes.
• Add turmeric powder and then chili powder. Saute again. Use a spoonful of water if it is too dry.
• Once the aroma of the masala comes, add tomatoes and cauliflower.
• Add the lentils and water, stir the mixture.
• Cook it covered for 35 minutes or until the lentils are tender.
• Stir in lime juice, cilantro and salt.
• Serve hot.
Suggestions:
You can serve the dal with rice.

Tomato Kootu

Ingredients:

• 4-5 Tomatoes
• 1/3 Cup split green gram dal (mung)
• 1/4 tsp Split black gram dal (urad)
• 1-1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
• 2 Green chilies
• 1-2 tsp Fresh coconut, grated (optional)
• 10-12 Curry leaves
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
• 1/4 tsp Asafoetida
• 1 tbsp Oil
• 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
• Salt to taste

How to make Tomato Kootu:

• Put tomatoes in boiling water and leave it for 5-7 minutes until tomatoes become soft.
• Remove the tomatoes and let them cool.
• Peel off the skin and keep aside.
• Pour 2 cups of water in a pot.
• Add green gram dal and boil well until dal becomes soft.
• Drain the excess water from boiled dal.
• Grind green chilies, 1-1/4 of cumin seeds, 2-3 curry leaves and coconut together into a paste.
• In a shallow pan, put tomatoes and add turmeric, salt, and curry leaves.
• Boil the contents for 8 minutes.
• When done, add boiled dal & ground paste.
• Mix well and boil again on low heat for 3-4 minutes.
• Take off heat and keep aside.
• In a small pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds.
• When they start to crackle, add 1/4 tsp cumin seeds, split black gram, 3-4 curry leaves and asafoetida.
• When dal turns slightly brown, take off fire.
• Add this seasoning to the prepared tomato mixture.
• Serve hot with rice.

Peerkangai Kootu

Ingredients:

• 2 Medium size ridge gourds
• 1/4 Cup toor dal
• 1/2Cup moong dal
• 1 Medium size onion
• 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1 Medium size tomato
• 2 Green chillis
• 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
• Oil as required
• 1/4 tsp Tamarind concentrate
• Salt for taste

How to make Peerkangai Kootu:

• Cut ridge gourd into round pieces.
• Take oil in a pressure pan and fry moong dal for about 5 minutes.
• Combine the thoor dal with it, pour 1 glass water and cook for about 1 whistle.
• Add the gourd pieces, green chilli, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder and salt to the dal.
• Cook the dal until ridge gourd becomes soft.
• Take a kadai and heat oil.
• Add the cumin seeds and fry until splutter.
• Add the chopped onion and fry until golden brown.
• Combine the chopped tomato with it and cook for about 6 to7 minutes.
• Add the dal to the kadai and cook for about 10 minutes over medium heat.
• Add tamarind to the Peerkangai Kootu and serve.

Beerakaya Pappu

Ingredients:

• 3/4 Cup toor dal
• One medium sized ridge gourd
• 6 to 10 Green chilli peppers, finely chopped
• One medium sized onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp Tamarind extract
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric
• 1 tsp Peanut oil
For Tadka
• 1 tsp Each of mustard seeds, urad dal, cumin, minced garlic and curry leaves

How to make Beerakaya Pappu:

• Peel and cut the ridge gourd into small cubes.
• Place toor dal, ridge gourd, onion, green chilli peppers, tamarind and turmeric in a pressure cooker.
• Add about two cups of water and cook them until 3 whistles or till they turn soft.
• Combine salt with this cooked mixture.
• With a wood masher, make a fine paste of the cooked dal and vegetables.
• For a more soup kind of dal, add water, stir and bring it to a boil.
• In a vessel, heat peanut oil.
• Fry the tadka ingredients in it till golden brown.
• Combine the mashed dal-veggie paste with it, mix well.