Recipe of Dal Fry - How to Make Dal Fry at Home?

Ingredients for Dal Fry Recipe

• Moong Dal (Petite yellow lentil) – 3/4^th cup
• Ghee (Clarified Butter) – 2 Tablespoons
• White Oil – 2 Tablespoons
• Water for Boiling – 3 Cups
• Salt -1/2 Teaspoon
• Onion – 2 Large pieces (chopped finely)
• Ginger garlic paste -1 Teaspoon
• Garlic cloves – 6 to 7 in number (crushed)
• Tomato – 2 mediums sized (very finely chopped)
• Green Chilli – 2 pieces (finely chopped)
• Dry Red Chilli – 2 pieces (left intact)
• Coriander leaves – A handful (chopped)
• Curry Leaves – 3 to 4 in number
• Cumin seeds (Jeera) – ½ Teaspoon
• Mustard Seeds – ½ Teaspoon
• Asafoetida (Hing) – ½ Teaspoon
• Coriander powder – 3/4^th Teaspoon
• Turmeric powder (Haldi) – ¼ Teaspoon
• Garam Masala Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Extra Salt – As per individual taste
• Kasuri Methi (Fenugreek leaves) – 1/4^th Teaspoon

How to Make Dal Fry at Home?

Making Dal Fry at the outset may appear as a monumental task if you just consider the long list of the ingredients concerned. However, Making of Dal Fry is a very easy task, as we are just going to describe now. Most of the ingredients can be easily found in the neighboring market, anywhere in the Indian Subcontinent. Here we are going to describe the making of Dal Fry in a step by step manner.

• A cooker is put on a medium flamed burner and 2 tablespoons white oil is put in it. Next red chilies are put into it and fried and kept aside.

• Next Dal as mentioned in the ingredients, is put on the cooker and fried. Stirring is continued, till a nice aroma of the pulse starts coming out. Next 3 cups of water, salt and turmeric powder (as mentioned previously) is added to it and allowed to boil.

• The Dal in the cooker left on the medium flamed burner will take 6 to 7 whistling alarms of the cooker to get boiled totally.

• After the Dal gets boiled, the pressure cooker is removed from the burner and kept aside and allow it to be cooled. Once the components inside get cooled, they are mixed homogeneously.

• Another nonstick pan is put on the medium flamed burner. A good quality of above-mentioned ghee is put in it. After the Ghee becomes warm, then mustard seed and curry leaves are added to it. When the mustard seeds start spluttering, then cumin seeds are added to it. As the cumin seeds start changing the color, then Asafoetida & coriander powder is added to it and stirred a little bit. Next chopped onion is added and fried till it becomes soft. Later crushed garlic is added, followed by ginger garlic paste and stirred, till the strong pungent smell disappears.

• Next, to the pan, chopped tomatoes and chopped green chilies are added and stirred, till Tomatoes become very soft. By now the whole mixture should have taken a consistency similar to that of toothpaste. Next Garam masala powder is added & stirred for 2 minutes and the previously prepared boiled Dal is added to it. This is allowed to boil for 5 minutes.

• Next Kasuri Methi powder is mixed to the earlier prepared mixture. Now the preparation is tasted for the salt content. If the preparation is less salty than what is desired, then further salt according to individual preference is added. The preparation is stirred for another 1 minute and the burner is switched off.

• Chopped coriander leaves and fried red chili are spread over the now ready Dal mixture. The Dal Fry is now ready for consumption.

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Conclusion

The above-described recipe of Dal Fry is very easy to prepare and is certainly not a challenging task as it may appear at the outset. As Dal Fry can be prepared at a very short interval, it can be also prepared as a part of a meal for guests coming unexpectedly. Besides a great taste, Dal Fry prepared from pulses are also a high source of protein, fiber, potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, folic acid, magnesium, zinc, and vitamins like – Thiamine (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Niacin (B3). So if you want to have a tasty meal, which is both nutritious and easy to prepare at home, you should certainly try the recipe of Dal Fry, we just described. We assure you, that you won’t be disappointed.