This is a common dal part of vegeterian menu in Bengal. Usually served with luchi or puri. When I asked for the recipe making for the first time I remember everyone mentioning it's a dal where you use all spices unlike other bengali dals where you use specific spices for specific dals.
Ingredients:
- yellow split pea 1 cup
- 1 potato- diced 1"/1"
- chopped coconut
- oil for cooking
- salt, sugar per taste
- bay leaves 1-2
- 1 dried red chilli
- whole cumin seeds
- 1 tsp ginger paste
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp cumin powder
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
Soak the dal over night
I cooked it in my instapot for 8 minutes with salt and turmeric, discard the water (2/3rd cooked at this point)
In a separate frying pan add oil, add the whole cumin seeds, bay leaves and dried red chilli, whole garam masala (cinamon, cardamom and cloves) to hot oil
Add ginger paste, saute
Add the potatoes and coconut slices
Add the rest of the spices except garam masala powder
Add the cooked dal and saute until oil leaves the spices
Add water as you wish
turn the heat off and add the garam masala powder and some ghee. Mix, let it sit for sometime before serving
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