- 3 cup cooked dal, check how to cook dal in a pressure cooker.
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- ½ tsp turmeric.
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- 1 small chopped onions
- 1 small chopped tomatoes
- fresh garlic minced.
- curry leafes (optional)
- 2-3 large dried red chilies
- coriander to garnish
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As I had said before, the best vessel to perform a tadka is a round-bottomed one as It keeps the oil and spices together.
The last time I used a handi, this time I will make use of a Kadhai.
Making the dal ready before adding tadka (Live tempering)
- So in the kadai, add oil and let it heat. Keep it on medium heat.
- As the oil heats , add the cumin seeds & mustard seeds and hear them sizzle,
- add the curry leaves and within a couple of seconds, let’s add the chopped onions and give it a stir.
- This will make sure that none of the ingredients burn.
- Now add the chopped tomatoes and let the onions and tomatoes cook.
- Once the onions and tomatoes are cooked enough, add the cooked dal. If required you can add ½ tsp of turmeric powder.
- Generally, turmeric powder is added in the dal when its cooked. So if you think you have enough yellow colour to the dal you can skip this step.
- Now add some water to maintain the required consistency and add salt to taste.
- Now let it boil.
Method 1
- Once it starts to simmer, on another gas let’s keep the tadka vessle, and add 2 tbsp oil.
- Keep the gas on low to medium heat.
- As the oil heats, add garlic and take the full chilies, break them in half and add it in the oil.
- And add 1 tsp of red chili powder.
- Make sure all the ingredients sizzle like so,
- As they sizzle within 3-5 seconds, pick it up and pour this hot oil in the dal which is cooking here.
Method 2
As promised, there is another way of doing this without the tadka vessel so let’s go back a bit to simmering the dal…
- as the dal simmers, on another gas, let’s take a round bottom vessel like this handi
- add oil and let it heat
- as it heats add the minced garlic
- break the full chilies in half and add it to the oil
- and then 1 tsp of red chili powder.
- let it sizzle for 3-5 seconds. So that they don’t burn the ingredients.
- switch off the gas, and now let’s pour all dal which is boiling now in this and quickly cover this handi.
- that’s it, do not disturb this , the dal and the hot flavored oil will mix well on its own.
Wow…. stir and let is boil for forther 2 mins and take it off the gas
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