Tuvar Dal Recipe

Make simple and easy toor dal by cooking it with tomatoes, onion and seasoning it with fried mustard seeds and asafoetida. Learn how to make tuvar daal.

Ingredients:

3 medium size tomatoes
4 green chilies
1/2 medium size sliced onion
1 cup toor dhal (yellow split peas)
a pinch of turmeric powder
1 tsp mustard
1 tsp urad dhal
a pinch of asafoetida
1 tsp gram dhal
a bunch of cilantro
2 tsp tamarind liquid
2 tsp vegetable oil
salt to taste

How to make Tuvar Dal:

Slice the tomatoes, green chilies and onion into pieces.
Boil them with little water.
When vegetables are cooked, add cooked toor dhal along with turmeric powder and blend well.
Add tamarind liquid with salt. Mash the dhal to reach a gravy form.
Cook until raw smell goes off (that is for 2 minutes).
In a non-stick skillet heat the oil add mustard seeds, urad dhal, gram dhal and asafoetida. Season the mashed dhal with this.
Garnish it with chopped cilantro. Serve hot with plain rice.

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