Dal fry recipe | How to make hotel style dal | Easy dal for rice or chapati
By Latha on March 3rd, 2023
Dal fry recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This is a very easy recipe using togari bele or toor dal. This is a very tasty hotel style side dish for chapati or rice. This dal fry is prepared using toor dal, onion, tomato, ginger, garlic, green chilli, red chilli powder, garam masala, curry leaves and few other ingredients.
This is a perfect recipe when you are running out of vegetables. Nevertheless it is very healthy, tasty and easy to prepare. Kids will enjoy this simple, nutritious yet tasty dal. I have used ginger garlic paste in this recipe, which you can replace it with chopped ginger and garlic. Or if you don't like garlic, you can just skip it. You can find one no-onion and no-garlic dal recipe on this website.
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I have made a quick video on this dal fry recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 20 min
Serves: 2 cup
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/2 cup toor dal
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1 onion chopped
- 7 - 8 curry leaves
- 1 green chilli
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 tomato chopped
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- 1 tsp salt (or as per your taste)
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves
Instructions for making dal fry:
- Rinse toor dal.
- Add in a cup of water, few drops of oil and big pinch of turmeric.
- Cook until soft by making 3 - 4 whistles.
- Heat a tbsp of oil. Prepare tempering with mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
- Next add in chopped onion, green chillies and some curry leaves. Fry until onions turn soft.
- Next add in ginger garlic paste (or chopped ginger and garlic). Give a quick mix.
- Followed by add in chopped tomato. Fry until tomatoes are soft.
- Add in red chilli powder.
- Add in garam masala powder. Give a quick mix.
- Add in cooked dal and required water.
- Add in salt as per taste.
- Bring it to boil.
- Switch off the stove. Sprinkle corinder leaves. Serve it with hot steaming rice or chapati.
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