Dal is a very simple and comforting everyday dish served with hot steaming rice or roti. Being a vegetarian, dal is almost a regular feature in my home. I prepare dal with different varieties of dal and masoor dal (red lentils) is one of my favourite dish. Today let us learn to prepare masoor dal tadka following this easy recipe.
Soak dal for 15 minutes in hot water. Soaking saves a lot of time and energy.
Finely chop ginger, garlic, green chillies and onion.
Pressure cook dal with enough water for 3 whistles, adding chilli, ginger, garlic, onion, salt and turmeric powder. Once the pressure subsides, open the cooker and mash dal well. Add a cup of water and bring it to boil on medium flame.
In a pan, heat ghee, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add cumin seeds, hing, red chilli powder and curry leaves. Fry for a few seconds and pour it over the boiling dal. Remove from flame.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve piping hot with rice or chapati. Masoor dal is a fantastic side dish for chapati and plain hot steaming rice.
Masoor Dal Tadka-Dal Tadka
Prep Time : 5 mins
Cook Time : 15 mins
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Dal Recipes-Main Course
Recipe Cuisine: NOrth Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Serves: 2-3
Recipe Category: Dal Recipes-Main Course
Recipe Cuisine: NOrth Indian
Author:Padhu Sankar
Ingredients needed
Masoor dal – 1/2 cup
Green chilli – 1-2 finely chopped
Onion (medium size) – 1 finely chopped
Ginger – 1 inch piece finely chopped
Garlic – 3 cloves
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Salt needed
For the tadka (seasoning)
Ghee /clarified butter – 3 tsp
Mustard seeds-1 tsp
Cumin seeds/jeera -1 tsp
Hing – a pinch
Chilli powder -1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – few
Preparation
Soak dal for 15 minutes in hot water. Soaking saves a lot of time and energy.
Finely chop ginger, garlic, green chillies and onion.
Method
Pressure cook dal with enough water for 3 whistles, adding chilli, ginger, garlic, onion, salt and turmeric powder. Once the pressure subsides, open the cooker and mash dal well. Add a cup of water and bring it to boil on medium flame.
In a pan, heat ghee, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add cumin seeds, hing, red chilli powder and curry leaves. Fry for a few seconds and pour it over the boiling dal. Remove from flame.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve piping hot with rice or chapati. Masoor dal is a fantastic side dish for chapati and plain hot steaming rice.
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love masoor dal and will surely try your way.
Dal tadka is simply superb…
Wow!!!! my favorite. Lovely colour.
That sounds delicious, simple & easy recipe.
A delicious comfort food!
Comfort dal, beautifully prepared, looks nice too.
One of my fav …looks so gud
Dal tadka is my favourite. Loved your version Padhu 🙂
wow delicious,luks yum…
Looks yummy.
A comforting, simple & delicious dal!!
Prathima Rao
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I have a packet of masoor dal athome.. Now I have a new recipe too 😀 great 🙂
Looking delicious…
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Perfect accompaniment for roti 🙂
Looks delicious..
Yummy. First choice of food. It is our usual food at home too. We used to add tomato with this recipe.
Cheers
Uma
An all time favourite comfort food. Love it with ghee and rice 🙂
Masoor dal tadka looks creamy…
looks so tempting
A very comfy food you share today ….awesome!
Dal Tadka – hubby's favorite….looks yummy..
Dal tadka looks yummy and fabulous. Perfect with chapati.
simple tsaty and fabulous
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i made your recipe..Itzzz great thanx for ur recipe
Hi I tried your rava idli today it was really soft and delicious thanks for the many other recipes also
1. Shall I use unsalted butter instead of ghee in this recipe and also in making rava kesari ? I bought unsalted butter (in that package it is mentioned Great for Ghee )
2. what is meant by clarified butter ?
Yes you can add unsalted butter instead of ghee. For rava kesari you have to add only ghee. Clarified butter is ghee . You have written that it is mentioned " it is great for ghee in the unsalted butter package". You should make ghee out of the butter. You can refer my how to make ghee from butter post . It is under cooking basics page. You had also asked if you can make chapati after keeping the dough at room temperature for 1 hours- Yes you can make. Hope I have cleared all your doubts.
Yes you had cleared all my doubts Mam.. Thanks a lot .. I tried many recipes from your blog.. Its very useful to me .. Keep it up 🙂 If I get any doubts further, I will notify u .
When the dal is red in color… does it turn yellow after being cooked?? or is it because of the turmeric?
Yes it turns yellow and looks like moong dal after cooking. Even if turmeric powder is not added, it will not be orange after cooking.
Hi Padhu, could you please tell me if I need to pressure cook for one whistle or 3? Thanks,
Pressure cook for 3 whistles.Make sure there is enough water to prevent the dal from getting burnt.
Hi… Just tried out the recipe. Turned out to be very tasty. Thanks
It was awesome. Got addicted to it when I made for chappathi.
If I don't have a pressure cooker, can I just cook the dal in a covered pan with enough water (and chilli, ginger, garlic, onion, salt and turmeric powder)? How long will it take to cook this way?
Thanks, Sridhar
Except tur dal, other dal gets cooked faster. Soak masoor dal in hot water for 15 minutes.Then cook covered in a pan. It will take 15-20 minutes.
tried this tonight, it came out really well! thanks as always padhu!