How to cook yellow dal?

Question

How to cook yellow dal?Which is the easiest way to cook yellow dal,for two people.Which ingredients are needed and in how much proportion?

Answer 1

Select the daal - TUR (also called ARHAR dal). It is the same daal which is used for preparing sambhar daal.

1. Take the DAAL after measuring it properly in a bowl (or KATORI which we use for eating). For four people, 1 bowl is enough.
2. Wash the daal thoroughly atleast 3 times. When you are washing daal, you will see white coloured water. This white colour comes because of chemicals. Rub the daal properly while washing. This chemical needs to be washed off completely. So when the water is clear, daal is washed properly.

3. In a pressure cooker, put the daal. The proportion of water is different for each daal. For Arhar daal, use more than double water. If preparing 1 bowl daal, pour little more than 2 bowl of water.

4. Put salt according to taste. You will take some practice to determine how much salt is to be used for how much daal. So initially put little salt. If less then you may put more later but if more you can't reduce the salt. So start by lesser salt and slowly you will get the right estimate.
Put around 3/4 teaspoon turmeric (haldi) powder. This is for 1 bowl of daal.

4. Cover the cooker and let it cook. After around 10 minutes the daal should be cooked. How much time is taken by Daal to get cooked depends on the pressure cooker and on the quality of water (hard or soft) in your area. So it may happen that daal is not cooked properly in 10 minutes or may be it gets overcooked. You have to learn to make that estimate by experience. Initially keep pressure cooker flame on high then when you hear the first whistle of cooker reduce the flame a little and let it cook after that.

5. Try not to open the cooker lid as soon as you feel that daal is cooked. It is recommended that cooker's pressure leaks on it own and you do not force it by using a spoon.

6. Once the daal is cooked completely, take some oil. Heat it and put some jeera and some red chili powder. Pour this in the daal.

Your daal tadka is ready!!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

This is very easy & delicious too.
1 cup toor dal, 2 tomatoes, 1 onion, 4-5 green chillies, 1/4 ginger
1 potato ( if u like), 2 drum sticks (if u want)

for tadka : oil, little rai & urdal dal, 2 red chillies, 2-3 garlic or garlic paste.

Mix all the above in a pressure cooker, add a little salt as per taste, 1/2 tsp sambhar masala & let it cook upto 4 whistles.
In a small pan, heat the oil put rai when it splutters put urad dal, garlic, red chillies and pour this on the dal.
Yellow dal is ready for serving.
Good luck.

Answer 4

You can cook yellow dal by Toor dal , Moong dal, Chana recipe is same :To serve 2 ppl
100 gm dal
1/2 litre water
Haldi ( Turmeric Powder) 1/2 tea spoon
Asafotida (heeng) : 1 pinch
Red chilli powder or green chilli cut 1/2 tea spoonful or as per taste
Tomato/ Ginger optional cut or grate
Salt to taste ( 1/2 tea spoon ful will be ok)
1/2 bay leave ( TejPatta)
Garam masala Powder 1/2 tea spoon ful particlarly if Gram dal otherwise optional.
Process :
Wash and soak dal ( to save LPG) for 1/2 hr
Put all ingradients in a cooker of 2-3 lt capacity
Cook on full flame till 1st whistle leave for 8-10 minutes on low flame.
Let it cool
Saute in Ghee/ butter with jeera, garlic, onion, whole chill , Green corriander leaves before serving

Answer 5

How To Cook Dal

Answer 6

It depends what you want and what form you have bought it in. It can be bought as a flour, or dried split seeds.

I am sure you know all about soaking and boiling the seeds for a long time. Both the seeds and the flour make very nice souups.

1. Mix enough flour, water and salt to taste to make a thickish soup mixture and boil it until the 'raw' taste disappears. It can be boiled with a few peppercorns which have been previously soaked for a couple of hours. If the mi xtue has become too thick for your liking, add a little water or milk. (I think the latter gives a better taste.) Serve it hot with a slice of lemon in each bowl.

2. Another soup can be prepared with the split seed, boiled in water without seasoning, until they soften, strained and put into the food processor for just long enough so that it is smooth, but still with some broken pieces in it.
Make a soup mixture of this with seasoning and a medium onion (two people) chopped, but not chopped small and some garlic. (A sprinkling of mustatd seeds in the final cooking process which have been soaked for an hour go well as an addition to your normal seasoning-they do not give a hot taste). Serve hot with fresh chopped fennel sprinkled lightly in each bowl.

3. Dall can be prepared as a side dish to go with curries using, the seeds pepared as above, but with more pieces in it, but after straining off the water, fry the mixture with a little oil and, if possible, a little coconut cream, chopped onions and garlic, curry powder, a few fennel seeds and other spices according to taste. it should be quite thick when served.

These are my own recipes which is why no exact measurments and times are given, but i am sure you will produce something tasty if you follow one of the above, adding the seasoning, etc., bit by bit and tasting the result until you get what you want.

Bon appetit.

Answer 7

This question has been already answered beautifully. But not without some misses. There are many kinds of yellow dal. I will list three of them.

i) Urad- yellow urad This is usually the most delicious, but does not fit some stomachs!Tastes great with rice.
ii) Arhar-again a very tasty dal. Fits most stomachs.Tastes fine with rice.
iii) Moong-the lightest of all. Taken by many when the stomach is upset! Tastes poor with rice.

The methods for preparing have already spelt out in wonderful details by wonderful people. There is nothing to add.

Answer 8

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How to cook yellow dal?Which is the easiest way to cook yellow dal,for two people.Which ingredients are needed and in how much proportion?

Answer 9

cook 1/2 a cup of tur dal in cooker along with a tomato, 4 garlics, 5 black pepper, 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds, 1/4 salt, 1/8 of turmeric powder. Boil oil in a separate pan. Allow mustard to crack, 3 curry leaves, pour the tur dal into this.. Add salt, asafoetida powder, chilli powder, corriander powder. Allow them to boil some 5 to 8 minutes.. Now its ready to serve..

Answer 10

Take 100gms of yellow dal [tuvar dal].
Wash it & put it in pressure cooker with 2 cups water.
Cook till 3 whstles come& off the stove.
Meanwhile take half teaspoon mustard seeds,Jeera, methi.[each half teaspoon]
Keep one kadai on stve put 2 table spoon cooking oil & pamper all these things,Add some redchilly's [2 cut chillies],half teaspoon turmeric pdr& last half teaspoon chilly pdr & off it .Add salt to taste & mix it with cooked dal.Put some sliced dania patha [kothameer] & curry leaves.
Serve it hot, It is very tasty.