Tomato Dal – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take dal in a cooker pot and wash it really good 2-3 times.
• Add water, hing, turmeric powder and mix well.
• Take 1” water in cooker and put a dish at the base.
• Put the cooker pot in the cooker.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until 3-4 whistles.
• Open the cooker and take cooked dal out.
• Beat it really good.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add cumin seeds and let them sizzle up.
• Add curry leaves, tomato and mix well.
• Cover and cook on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes until these turn nice and soft.
• Open the lid and mix well again.
• Add besan and mix well.
• Adding besan is optional. You can skip it if you don’t want.
• Besan gives nice binding to dal.
• Add garlic, kitchen king masala, red chili powder, coriander powder, salt to taste and mix well.
• You can use garam masala instead of kitchen king masala.
• Fry for about 1-2 minutes.
• Add beaten dal and water.
• Mix well and cook dal on medium heat for about 7-8 minutes.
• Crush kasuri methi with hands and add it.
• Kasuri methi gives nice flavour to this dal.
• Heat up ghee in a pan.
• Add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Add cumin seeds, garlic, dry red chilies.
• When garlic gets nice color add the tadka on the dal and tomato dal tadka is already.
• It goes fantastic with rice.
• You can have it with roti or chapatti or paratha.