Tarka Dal
Tarka Dal

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tarka dal. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tarka Dal is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Tarka Dal is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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

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