Arhar dal (pigeon dal)
Arhar dal (pigeon dal)

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Arhar dal recipe - this is a lightly spiced and delicious Punjabi arhar dal fry made with pigeon pea lentils (toor dal or yellow lentils). To make this arhar dal - I have pressure cooked the dal and its really easy to cook these pigeon pea lentils or arhar dal in a pressure cooker. The pigeon pea is a perennial legume, reigns from the family Fabaceae.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have arhar dal (pigeon dal) using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Arhar dal (pigeon dal):
  1. Take 1 cup arhar dal
  2. Get 1 chopped onion
  3. Make ready 1 chopped tomato
  4. Take 1 green chilli
  5. Prepare 1 tbs turmeric powder
  6. Make ready 1/2 tbs garam masala powder
  7. Prepare to taste Salt
  8. Make ready 2 tbsp desi ghee
  9. Make ready 1 tbs jeera seeds
  10. Prepare 2 pinch hing
  11. Take 3-4 curry patta

Every region has their own version of making it. Gujarati dal, Maharashtrian varan, Andhra style There is another punjabi dal fry recipe made from arhar dal. Most of the ingredients and procedure for this recipe vs dal fry recipe are same. The plants in the northern part of India produce Arhar Dal; in the southern part of India: Toovar Dal.

Steps to make Arhar dal (pigeon dal):
  1. Wash and soak dal 10 minutes
  2. In a pressure cooker add desi ghee when hot add hing, jeera seeds stir 1 minutes add Curry patta
  3. Add chopped onion stir 1 minutes add green chilli and chopped tomatoes stir it
  4. Add spices and salt
  5. Now add soak dal
  6. Add 1and 1/2 glass of water
  7. Cover the lid of pressure cooker
  8. Whistle 2 open and serve with rice or roti

Every day a different stew is made with these. If using oily toovar, wash it very thoroughly before cooking to remove the castor oil coating. Note that dried peas double in size after cooking. There are many different lentils eaten in India. Amount of dal required per person depends on whether you are serving the dal with roti or with rice.

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