Play with Daal

Daal mein Taal Daal, The simple ubiquitous Daal could be so exciting, and can be your main curry.

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How to make a good Dish out of Daal?

Always cook Arhar or Mattar dal( rare but available). Makes much better and tastier dal. You could even do without a subjee. I am telling out of experience.

Now,
-Put your measure of dal in a pressure cooker.
- Now add finely chopped onions(One large onion, keep 1/4 for the tadka).
-Add one teaspoon of crushed ginger.
-Add a pinch of haldi/turmeric to the dal, the measure should be your judgement. (Some brands of haldi are sharper than others. Again experiment, hit and trial. You are not going to cook for a five start hotel. You are going to cook a nice home meal. Ghar ka khana. But never be generous with haldi, Namak or Chilli )

-Add Tomatoes. Two medium sized tomatoes should do.
-Cover the Pressure cooker and wait till 2 whistle.
-Let the pressure cool down by itself in room temp.
-If you are in a hurry, let it give 4-5 whistle by lowering the heat( otherwise bubbles will come out of the whistle and will make a mess out of your kitchen)
-Then cool the whole pressure cooker under tap water.

For the tadka
- Heat oil in a pan.
-When sufficiently hot and the oil start to give out a little smoke, lower the flame.
-Add A teaspoon of jeera, a bayleaf or two and 3 red chillis together.
-After a few seconds, add the remaining finely chopped onions and fry till golden brown or the juice out of the onion has been fried out
-Just Before the Onions are golden brown, add a teaspoon of moderately crushed garlic.
-When the Onion is just right, pour the Boiled dal.
-Bring to a boil for 3 minutes,
add salt to taste and garnish with dhania.

Eat with rice, again out of the Pan. You are a bachelor right.?

***Variations:

With Veg:
Nice One try this-
While boiling the Dal, one can add French bean or Long beans or cauliflowers or peas or a mix of the same or even potato cubes. Just increase the quantity of the tadka ingredients like a little more oil, a little more ginger garlic and in such case don't forget to add a little jeera-dhania powder after the onions are slightly golden brown.

With Fish:

While Boiling, if you add fried Fish Head (preferably Rohu), you get a real good bengali Dish call Maccher Matha Diye Dal. Assamese call it Mouri Ghonto...Real Yummy.
For this, increase the ingredients in tadka accordingly. A little generous oil and Crushed ginger garlic helps. During the first stepof the tadka, add a little asafoetida( heeng) ,very little, along with the jeera and bayleaves.
And after the tadka, boil the curry for a little while longer.