Dahl

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Does anyone have a quick, easy dahl recipe please?]]

I usually make a delicious one with coconut milk, but it's not the healthiest recipe!!!

[MacademiaNut]

Use the usual recipe but without coconut milk (I've never made dal with coconut milk, but you learn something new everyday!). You might want to tone down the spice accordingly, as te coconut milk would have made it milder.

I am a little stumped on giving a recipe. I usually operate on the principle of using whatever dals I fancy, seasoning to taste (with fried spices or with fried garlic and tomatoes, and so on).

Isn't Dahl a writer?

[viv]

You see it spelt "daal" and "dahl" on menus in the UK, MacNuts. I've never had tomato in a daal that I know of?

[MacademiaNut]

Interesting, we often put tomato in ours. also greens.

[HalcyonDaze]

Jan 11, 2014 14:59:39 GMT -5 MacademiaNut said:

Isn't Dahl a writer?

Yes, I was going suggest which books to read.

[wombatrois]

Dal , daal, dahl is really just the description of the prepared-for-cooking pulse.

I know dal is used as a descriptive word for the western version of cooked red lentils with spices, but you can do so much more than this with all the different dal available.

I like to use black (urad) dal, green (mung) dal or toor dal for my indian dishes. Toor dal is the pulse for tomato rasam that is one of my favourite indian dishes, although I tend to use a bit more dal than usual and have it thicker than you would generally get in india.

This rasam has tomatoes (duh), ginger, toor dal, turmeric and tempered with curry leaves, mustard seeds, chillies and asafoetida powder. Sorry, I'm being lazy and haven't checked all the ingredients, so this is from memory.

You should cook the toor dal till soft in a couple of cups of water then mash slightly, fry the ginger, tomatoes and turmeric then add to the toor dal. Temper with the other ingredients. You can eat this with chapati, rice or idli. Oh, and don't forget to sprinkle fresh coriander over it when serving.

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Sounds yum!

Nuts - it's literally just lentils, onions, tomatoes and spices (cumin seeds, black mustard seeds, turmeric, curry leaves) cooked with a tin of cocnut milk and water for 20 mins. It is delicious but not particularly healthy. I suppose frying everything off in oil, then adding cooked lentil and tinned toms might work though.

[tzarine]

love asafoetida powder in mine
sometimes i use coconut
definitely lots of coriander leaf