Dal Har Har!!!

Dal Har Har, name is coming from the menu of one of the dhaba of katra (Vaishno devi). I found it to be quite interesting. And when today, I was cooking this same dal, actually thought to give same only.

My friends asked me to post dal's recipes on my blog, as they say, all variants of dals that I cook, tastes different from anyone else.

Ingredients:

1 Cup toor dal

1/2 Cup green split gram dal

3 Medium tomatoes(finely chopped)

2 Medium onions(finely chopped)

1 Tbspoon garlic paste

2 Green chilies(finely chopped) 

1/2 Tspoon  turmeric powder

Salt as per your taste.

For Tadka:

3 Tb spoon oil

1 Tb spoon mustard seeds

2 Cloves (crushed)

4-6 whole black pepper

1 Big cardamom(badi ilaichi)

5-6 Curry leaves

Method:

Wash toor dal and green dal properly and soak for 10-12 min in ice cold water. In a pressure cooker, put both the dals and add 4 cups of water(quantity of water depends on what consistency (thick or thin) you require). I like in a medium way. Add all the chopped vegetables and garlic paste, also add turmeric powder and salt to it. Mix well and pressure cook on high flame up to 5 whistles. Let it cool down.

For tadka, Heat oil in a pan, add crushed cloves and black pepper and badi ilaichi. After  some 30-40 sec, add mustard seeds.When seeds starts spluttering, add chilli powder and immediately off the flame. Add curry leaves.

Pour the tadka in cooked dal and mix well. Add some pudina powder and garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with rice or chapati.

Tips:

If you don like garlic in dal, you can add pinch of  asafoetida in tadka.

Split green dal adds fibre content and reduces the acidic nature of toor dal. Adding vegetables in dal also    reduces the calorie intake.

1 cup of dal contains 100 cal while if you add vegeis into it,then 1 cup of dal contains 70 cal.