How to Cook Delicious Authentic Dal Fry

Authentic Dal Fry.

You can have Authentic Dal Fry using 15 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Authentic Dal Fry

1. It’s 1 cup of tur (arhar/split pigeon peas)dal.
2. You need 1/2 cup of moong dal(split yellow lentils) roasted.
3. You need 1 of big or 2 small onions sliced finely.
4. You need 1 tsp of ginger julienned.
5. It’s 7-8 pods of garlic minced.
6. It’s 1 of small tomato chopped finely.
7. It’s 2 of dry red chillies.
8. It’s 2 of slit green chillies.
9. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.
10. Prepare 2 pinch of hing(asafoetida).
11. It’s 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.
12. It’s To taste of salt.
13. You need 1 tsp of kasoori methi.
14. You need 1.5 tbsp of ghee/clarified butter.
15. You need 1 tbsp of coriander chopped.

Authentic Dal Fry instructions

1. Soak tur dal for half-hour with warm water. Dry roast moong dal. Wash and pressure cook moong dal 3 whistles with little salt and turmeric. Open lid after 5 minutes. Wash soaked tur dal and pressure cook 2 whistles with a little salt, turmeric,1 tsp ghee and release pressure. Mix both dals. Fry sliced onion till crispy and set aside..
2. Heat ghee and fry ginger and minced garlic. Add cumin seeds, dry red chillies and hing. When they crackle set aside half of tadka.Add chopped tomato,little salt and fry. Pour boiled dal on it,slit green chillies and boil. Add half of fried onion, chopped coriander and kasoori methi. Pour dal in a bowl. Heat the remaining tadka with ghee and pour over dal just before serving. Serve hot with roti,plain or jeera rice along with papad and pickle..