Serves
4
Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
This is a spicy thick dal flavoured with garlic that can be eaten as a soup or eaten with rice, bread or rotis.
Ingredients
- ½ cup tur dal
- 1 tbsp oil
- 6 + 3 cloves of garlic, crushed
- ½ tsp pepper powder
- ½ cup of coconut milk
- 1 tsp chilli powder or more according to your preference
- 1 lime-sized tamarind, soaked for 10 minutes
- Salt to taste.
Method
- Wash and cook the dal with 2 cups of water in the pressure cooker for 4 whistles.
- Allow the cooker to cool and then add the chilli powder, pepper powder, coconut milk, tamarind and 3 crushed garlic cloves and mix it well.
- Heat the oil in an iron tempering ladle and add the rest of the crushed garlic in it. Sauté for a minute over low heat or till it is lightly brown and add it to the dal.
- Serve with rotis, bread or rice.
