Saturday, 9 January 2016

Dal Hyderabadi
Learnt this from the Satya, the lady who helps me in cooking. She is from Andhra and this is the way they make their dal, We loved it and hope you too will like it. I have given it the name Dal Hyderabadi.
Ingredients
1 cup toor dal pressure cooked with a pinch of asefotida, little turmeric powder, a few curry leaves.
2 teaspoons of tamarind paste
1 onion chopped into thin long pieces
1 tomato chopped into medium sized long pieces
5 cloves of garlic roughly crushed
1/2 a teaspoon of chilli powder
1/2 a teaspoon of coriander powder
1/2 a teaspoon of cumin powder
Salt to taste
Take a deep bottomed pan, put oil in it, splutter some mustard seeds, asefotida, little turmeric powder, add the chopped onion, let it become light brown, add tomatoes, cook a bit add all the powders, the tamarind pulp, stir a bit and add the dal and the required amount of water. Make like a curry to be eaten with steaming rice. Serve garnished with chopped coriander.

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