What is the recepie to make simple but tasty/ spicy dal (old grand mother style)?

Question

What is the recepie to make simple but tasty/ spicy dal (old grand mother style) _ any dal with the same recepie , that we eat with rice

Answer 1

I don't know but here are some india recipe links

Indian Vegetarian Recipes
http://www.ivcooking.com/
http://www.gadnet.com/recipes.htm
http://www.ivu.org/recipes/indian-beans/ (lots of different recipes)
http://about.com/food/rSrch.htm?cu=Indian&zIsPG=bSrch
http://www.bangalinet.com/sweets.htm (sweets)
http://indianfood.about.com/od/sweetsanddesserts/tp/topbengalsweets.htm (sweets)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian1.htm (mostly rice)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian3.htm (more rice)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian4.htm (sweets)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian5.htm (more sweets)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian7.htm (rice pudding, vegetable dishes, yogurt sauces)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian8.htm (more vegetable dishes, dosas)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian9.htm (curry dishes, indian ice cream)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/indian10.htm (curries, koftas, beans, nan)
http://cookingmedley.blogspot.com/2006/03/spicy-indian-hummus-with-grilled-greek.html (spicy indian hummus)
http://www.recipedelights.com/indianvegdishes.htm
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/includes/ethnicity.shtml
http://fitdv.myrecipefriends.com/?nc=4986&page=search&search=Indian
http://foodgeeks.com/recipes/subcat/10,3,indian.phtml
http://food.sify.com/keyword_recipe_search_h.php?lt=7&keywords=ri (all kinds of recipes, but Indian website)
http://www.food-india.com/index/recipeIndex/index.htm
http://vegetarianworld.blogspot.com/ (recipes and English to hindi translations of ingred)
http://www.bellaonline.com/site/indianfood

Answer 2

SPICY DAL FRY

Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cooking Time : 30 minutes
Serves / Makes : 4

Ingredients
3/4 cup toor dal two medium tomatoes corainderleaves 2tsp corainder powder
some red chillies 2-3 flakes garlic a small piece of ginger 1/4 stick butter three small onions cumin seeds or powder garam masala

Method
Boil the toor dhal in the cooker for only two whistles. Grind together all spices. melt the butter in a pan and fry the sliced onion with cardomom,cinamon and cloves. Add the ground masala and fry for around 15-20 minutes.Now add the boiled dhal and add water to make a gravy.

Answer 3

Rinse 2 cups of dhaal of yr choice in cold water - you can soak it for a bit if you like. Boil it til mushy and liquidise it with the water u boiled it in. Put into a clean bowl/pot Prepare the tarka as follows: Dry roast a teaspoon of cumin seeds til brown Add one chopped onion, 2 teaspoons of ghee, one tablespoon oil and 3 large green chillies (sliced or whole) When the onion is beginning to brown add abt 9 curry leaves and sautee. When the onions are golden brown add half a tin of chopped or lquidised tomatoes, salt to taste, 1 teaspoon ground cumin, 1 teaspoon ground coriander, 2 teaspoons chilli powder (or to taste) and allow to cook . Also add in one teaspoon minced garlic, 1/4 teaspoon minced ginger and 1 teaspoon minced fresh chillie (red or green) When the tomato is cooked, add the dhaal and allow to simmer til everything is incorporated Add 2 tablespoons freshly chopped green coriander and serve hot with pulaau rice, fried fish and bombay potato. Enjoy

Answer 4

Make the dal old grand mother style; i.e. in a vessel by boiling it over fire and adding water q.s. Garnish with salt and spices as appropriate

Answer 5

In acooker Pressure the dal u want till dilute. Then just mix it will with hand blender till it is fine. Then in another vessel take ghee i think 2-3 tsp put zeera, rai, taj, laving(this all r whole masala u can check out in any books refering in english this r gujarati names ) then put hing in the ghee. Then u can put onion , garlic & ginger paste and saute 4 some time.Then put red chilli powder , haldi powder and some drops of lemon juice. Then let it be on flame for some time i.e slow flame. IT is done after 5-10 min.

Answer 6

Phiki Dal Recipe

Answer 7

arhar dal:
1 cup Split Red Lentil (Masoor Dal)
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi)
1 tsp Cumin Seed Powder (Jeera)
2 Green Chilli (Hari mirch)
2 Dry Red Chily (Saboot Lal Mirchi)
1 tsp chopped Ginger (Adrak)
2 Bay Leaf (Tej Patta)
10 gms Mixed Spices (onion seeds,fenugreek seeds,aniseeds,cuminseeds and mustard seeds) 2 tblsp Clarified Butter (Ghee)
1 tsp Sugar
Salt to taste

How to make arhar dal:

* Wash the dal and cook the dal in a sauteuse with the turmeric, salt and the sugar over a medium flame.
* Add half of the ginger to the dal along with the cumin powder.
* When the dal is cooked and thick remove from the fire.
* Heat the ghee in a pan and add the mixed spices,(a little of onion seeds, fenugreek seeds , aniseeds, cumin seeds and mustard seeds all mixed together).
* When the mustard seeds crackle add the bay leaf, remaining chopped ginger , slit green chilliesand the broken red chillies. fry for 2 minutes and pour over the dal.mix thoroughly. serve hot.

Answer 8

Cook any daal you want in a pressure cooker. Garnish with Heeng,jeera alongwith onion,ginger,garlic and turmeric powder,red chilli powder and salt to taste.

Answer 9

If you want an easy way, then there are 2 different ways:-

1.
Cook the dal in pressure cooker. Now in a pan heat 2 tbsp oil, add the rai, then the hing, you can add crushed ginger and dried whole red chilles to it. mix it and allow the ginger to cook well in oil. now add the curry leaves and the dal. add salt, dhanajeera, turmeric, red chilli powder, jaggery and mix it well and if you want can add some water as well. cook it for about 15-20 min, add some tomatoes and cook for 3 min. take it from the gas and then add coriander leaves and serrve it.

2.
Cook the dal in pressure cooker. Now in a pan heat 2 tbsp oil, add some cumin seeds and then some chopped onions. allow the onion to cook or until they become transperant. add crushed ginger, green chillies and garlic and mix it well. cook it for 3-4 min. now add the curry leaves, dried whole red chillies, turmeric, dhanajeera, salt, chopped tomatoes and mix it well and allow it to cook till it becomes a paste. add to it the dal and mix it. cook it for 10 min. if you want can add a little bit of water. sprinkle coriander leaves on it and serve it. if you want you can do the vaghar of crushed garlic on it befor adding the coriander leaves. (just like dal fry)

Both the methods can be use for any dal you wish to have with rice. They are very easy and the dal also becomes tasty.

Answer 10

just add alllllll spices available and give red chilli "hing tadka" in "desi ghee" in the end.