How much dhal to cook?
Dhal cook for 30 minutes.
How to cook Indian dhal
Products
Red lentils - 200 grams (1 glass)
Onion - 1 onion
Coconut flakes - 2 tablespoons
Coconut milk - 1 glass
Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons
Garlic - 2 cloves
Water - 1 glass
Pickled ginger - 8 grams
Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
Ground chili pepper - 1.2 teaspoon
Coriander - 3 tablespoons
Garam masala mixture - 1 teaspoon
Greens (cilantro) - bunch
Sugar, salt - to taste
Food preparation
1. Sort out the lentils, pick out the trash, rinse with water.
2. Peel the head of onion and chop finely.
3. Finely chop the pickled ginger or chop with a garlic press.
4. Peel 2 garlic cloves, finely chop.
5. Rinse a bunch of cilantro, dry, cut.
How to cook Indian dhal
1. Pour 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it up.
2. Add chopped onion, garlic and pickled ginger.
3. Season with chili, cinnamon, coriander, sugar and mix well.
4. Fry the spice mixture over low heat for about 5 minutes, until the onion is transparent.
5. Pour the washed lentils, the contents of the pan and the coconut into a saucepan.
6. Mix everything well.
7. Pour 1 glass of coconut milk and water into a saucepan, and cook for 20 minutes.
8. After the expiration of time, remove the Indian dhal from the heat, add the mixture of fried spices garam masala and stir.
9. Put the prepared Indian dhal in a separate bowl, sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Fusofacts
- Dhal or dal is a traditional vegetarian Indian dish, puree soup. Its basis is legumes, which are boiled down to the states of a mashed soup. For cooking, lentils, peas, chickpeas are most often used. The essential ingredients for dhala are coconut milk, garam masala, garlic and fried onions.- Before starting to prepare dhala, you need to prepare gi oil, in which the spices will be fried.To save time, you can replace ghee butter with ghee or regular butter. To make ghee butter yourself, you need to do the following:
1. To prepare dhala, you need 2 tablespoons of ghee butter, so initially you need to take 4 tablespoons of butter. Place butter in a saucepan and melt over low heat.
2. When heating, remove the resulting foam with a spoon.
3. The remaining clear oil will be used for roasting the spices.
- One of the ingredients in the dhal dish is the garam masala spice mixture. If you don't have a basic product at hand, you can compose one yourself. Must be: turmeric, coriander, ground pepper, garlic, ginger. Additionally, you can use white pepper, cardamom, anise, nutmeg, cumin, cinnamon and others.
- When roasting spices, you need to adhere to the sequence, add each spice in turn. In this case, you need to intensively stir the mixture. If the spices burn, they will spoil the taste and aroma of the whole dhala.
Last update Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova