Daal Fry
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Ingredients
- 200g Yellow Split Peas
- 80g Red Split lentils unsoaked
- 1 large white onion peeled and diced
- 5 Cloves garlic crushed or grated
- 2 tbsp Ghee (clarified Butter)
- 3tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil
- salt to taste
- 1 Bay Leaf
- ½ tsp zeera or cumin seeds
- 1tbsp Tumeric Powder
- 1tbsp Chilli powder (optional)
- 1 tbsp Coriander powder (daniya)
- 1tbsp mixed curry powder
Accompaniment
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Description
had this in bangladesh in 2003 and it was absolutely gorgeous, cheap, tasteful, fulfilling comfort food. MUST TRY IT!!
Method
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soak lentils for 1 hour.
after it has soaked, put in a saucepan with 500ml water to boil.
wash the red lentils and pour into the saucepan, to that add 1/4 of the onion roughly chopped, add the turmeric powder and the bay leaf.
put it on medium-low heat and let it simmer. after its been boiled take out one of the yellow split pea and see if it crushes up or goes mushy. this will indicate its done. when its done reduce the flame to the lowest heat.
Tarka- get a frying pan, add oil and ghee, put in the zeera (cumin) seeds, add the rest of the onion finely chopped, grated garlic, and let these fry and go golden brown, after 2minutes it should be nice and golden add the chilli, mixed curry, coriander powders and mixed throughly.. add salt to taste. this point add the lentil mixture to the frying point at which the frying pan should sizzle when the mixture hist the pan. let it boil and add fresh coriander to garnish and green chillies if you like it hot. Enjoy
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