Cook's Hideout: Gujarati Dal for ICC January

February 15, 2011

Gujarati Dal for ICC January

For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge (ICC), Valli chose Gujarati Dal from Sukham Ayu cookbook. I own a copy of the book, but never made this dish, so thank you valli for picking this nutritious and delicious dish for ICC. This post also is the last in our 7 day mini marathon. As I said earlier the marathon has been great experience and an opportunity to get to know so many talented bloggers that I didn’t know before. I’ve bookmarked quite a few recipes and I hope to try them pretty soon. Coming to the Gujarati dal recipe.

I substituted some of the ingredients due to lack of availability. I cook with yam very frequently, but didn’t have any on hand when making the dish; I’m going to make this dish strictly per the recipe again when I have all the ingredients on hand.

Gujarati DalIngredients:
Toor dal – ½ cup
Tamarind: 2tbsp
Cluster beans (Goru chikkudu kaya) – ¼ cup, thawed if frozen
Green chilies – 2, slit
Ginger – 1” piece, finely chopped
Peanuts – 1tbsp (I used unsalted roasted peanuts)
Ground Coriander – 2tsp
Ground Cumin – 1tsp
Jaggery – 1tsp
Turmeric – ½ tsp
Garam masala – ½ tsp
Coriander leaves – ½ cup, chopped
Salt – to taste

For tempering:
Mustard seeds (Aavalu)– 1/2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds (Menthulu) – 1/4 tsp
Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Dry red chili – 2
Curry leaves – 5-6
Asafoetida – pinch

Method:
  • Pressure cook toor dal with 2 cups until very soft. When cool enough to handle, mash dal smooth.
  • Add all ingredients except for garam masala, coriander leaves and tempering ingredients to the smooth dal along with 1 cup of water. Bring to a simmer on medium-low flame and cook for 15-20 minutes until all the flavors are mingle.
  • In a small sauce pan, heat 2tsp ghee for the tempering; add mustard seeds and once they start sputtering, lower the heat and add fenugreek seeds. Next add the dry red chili, hing and curry leaves.
  • Once everything starts to sputter and smell aromatic, add it quickly to the dal.
  • Add garam masala, salt and coriander leaves to the dal; bring to a boil and simmer for another 5 minutes before turning off the heat.
Serve hot with steamed rice or roti.

Gujarati Dal
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14 comments:

  1. I guess the peanut is key for this dhal, never tried it- should be awesome with rice!

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  2. Yummy dal, looks soo delicious and comforting..loved that mild sweetness in this dal, i enjoyed making,will post mine tonite..

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  3. This one was really yummy, wasn't it?

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  4. Another master piece in Gujarati Dal

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  5. the daal looks delish...i couldn't do ICC this time...i missed it!
    Smitha
    http://smithasspicyflavors.blogspot.com/

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  6. A very simple and flavourful dal....I enjoyed this challenge.

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  7. I missed out on this challenged.

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  8. Comforting and yumm dal..very flavorful too..

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  9. Yummm... love the clicks and i enjoyed cooking this dal too

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  10. Dhal recipe looks very yummy, the pictures are really beautiful.

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