GARLIC DAL

Garlic Dal is a very flavorful and easy to make, vegan recipe prepared using yellow lentil / toor dal and garlic cloves in less than 20 minutes.

This is a comfort food. Whenever I want to prepare something in hurry, I love to do this as this is my family's favorite. Today I have served this along with double chilie potatoes. This can be served as soup or as side dish with rice.

Preparation time : 20 minutes
Serves : 2

Ingredients for Garlic Dal

Toor Dal / Yellow lentil  - ⅔ cup
Garlic cloves - 8
Dried red chilie - 3 to 4
Vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Asafoetida / Hing - ⅛ tsp
Curry leaves - 1 leaflet
Salt - to taste

Steps to prepare Garlic Dal

Step I

• Mash 3 garlic cloves and finely chop 5 garlic cloves.
• In a pressure cooker add toor dal / yellow lentil and water, bring it to a nice boil. Add mashed garlic cloves, close the lid and pressure cook for about 8 minutes or 2 whistles. See that the water is at least half inch above toor dal.
• Once the cooker is cooled down, remove the lid and whisk the cooked dal until it is blended into a smooth pate.

Step II

• Meanwhile, For tempering: In a pan on medium heat, add oil, cumin seeds and saute until it is light brown and fragrant.
• Now add finely chopped garlic, red chilies, asafoetida powder and saute till the garlic turns into light brown color.

Step III

• Bring the dal to a boil, adjust the salt and water for desired consistency. Garnish with tempering.
• Garlic dal is now ready. Serve hot with a bowl of rice along with a side of double chilie potatoes.

Tip:

• You can also cook the toor dal in pot, adding water and salt. this will take longer time.
• Vary the amount of dry red chilies as per your taste.
• You can also temper using butter if you are non-vegan.