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Restaurant Style Dal Fry

Restaurant Style Dal Fry

Restaurant Style Dal FryRestaurant Style Dal Fry is an easy, quick, and delicious. It is perfect with steamed rice, jeera rice or hot roti/phulka. This Dal is a popular Indian dal/curry recipe; this is something you often find served at Indian restaurants.

Restaurant Style Dal Fry

A simple and great tasting is all that can be said about this excellent dish, it has a medium thick consistency and a wholesome feel to it. It is a perked up with an aromatic tempering along with fried onions and tomatoes, this dal has a very pleasing texture and irresistible flavor too. From roadside dhabas to global Indian restaurants, almost all diners serve this all-time favorite Dal Fry.

Restaurant Style Dal Fry Photography

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Tuvar Dal/Arhar Dal/Split Pigeon Peas
• 1 medium sized Onion Chopped
• 1 tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
• 1 medium sized Tomato Chopped
• 1 Green Chili Chopped
• 2 Bay Leaves
• 1 small piece of Cinnamon Stick
• 2 Whole Dry Red Chili
• 5-6 Curry Leaves
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• ½ tsp Red Chili Powder
• 1 tsp Garam Masala
• ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
• ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
• Pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
• Salt
• 1 tbsp Oil
• ½ Lemon Juice
• ¼ cup Coriander Leaves Chopped

Method:

1. Wash dal 2-3 times, add required water, then pressure cook it in a cooker for 3-4 whistle.
2. Once cooker cool down, remove it from the cooker, mix it well and keep aside.
3. In a deep kadhai or pan add oil, once oil hot enough, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, once seeds pop up add pinch of hing and pinch of red chili powder.
4. Now add bay leaves, cinnamon stick, whole dry red chili, curry leaves and sauté for few seconds.
5. Add chopped onion and green chili, fry it till translucent, then add chopped tomato, ginger-garlic paste, again stir it for few seconds.
6. Now add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt, then stir fry it for 2 minutes.
7. Add boiled/cooked dal into the masala mixture, add required water as per your choice, mix it well, and bring it to the boil and cook it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.

8. Remove from the flame, add lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves and mix it.
9. This easy restaurant style dal fry is ready for serve, serve it with, jeera rice, steamed rice or roti as a side dish.

Restaurant Style Dal Fry

 

Tips:

• You can mix yellow moong dal or masoor dal along with tuvar dal.
• You can use ghee instead of oil for authentic taste.
• You can cook this dal in deep vessel instead of pressure cooker, but soak it for 1 hour, before cooking.

Restaurant Style Dal Fry

 

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Restaurant Style Dal Fry
 
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Restaurant Style Dal Fry is an easy, quick, and delicious. Restaurant Style Dal Fry is perfect with steamed rice, jeera rice or hot roti/fulka. Restaurant Style Dal Fry is a popular Indian dal/curry recipe; this is something you often find served at Indian restaurants.
Author: Binjal Pandya
Recipe type: Curry
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Tuvar Dal/Arhar Dal/Split Pigeon Peas
  • 1 medium sized Onion Chopped
  • 1 tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
  • 1 medium sized Tomato Chopped
  • 1 Green Chili Chopped
  • 2 Bay Leaves
  • 1 small piece of Cinnamon Stick
  • 2 Whole Dry Red Chili
  • 5-6 Curry Leaves
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
  • ½ tsp Red Chili Powder
  • 1 tsp Garam Masala
  • ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
  • ½ tsp Cumin Seeds
  • Pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
  • Salt
  • 1 tbsp Oil
  • ½ Lemon Juice
  • ¼ cup Coriander Leaves Chopped
Instructions
  1. Wash dal 2-3 times, add required water, then pressor cook it in a pressor cooker for 3-4 whistle.
  2. Once cooker cool down, remove it from the cooker, mix it well and keep aside.
  3. In a deep kadhai or pan add oil, once oil hot enough, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, once seeds pop up add pinch of hing and pinch of red chili powder.
  4. Now add bay leaves, cinnamon stick, whole dry red chili, curry leaves and sauté for few seconds.
  5. Add chopped onion and green chili, fry it till translucent, then add chopped tomato, ginger-garlic paste, again stir it for few seconds.
  6. Now add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt, then stir fry it for 2 minutes.
  7. Add boiled/cooked dal into the masala mixture, add required water as per your choice, mix it well, and bring it to the boil and cook it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
  8. Remove from the flame, add lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves and mix it.
  9. This easy restaurant style dal fry is ready for serve, serve it with, jeera rice, steamed rice or roti as a side dish.
Notes
• You can mix yellow moong dal or masoor dal along with tuvar dal.
• You can use ghee instead of oil for authentic taste.
• You can cook this dal in deep vessel instead of pressor cooker, but soak it for 1 hour, before cooking.
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Restaurant Style Dal Fry was last modified: June 6th, 2022 by Binjal's VEG Kitchen

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14 Responses to “Restaurant Style Dal Fry”

  1. Divya Pant / 1 Mar 2016 8:53pm #

    Was looking perfect recipe from long time!! Love it!

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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 1 Mar 2016 8:54pm #

      Thanks Divya!

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  2. Traditionallymodernfood / 28 Jan 2016 4:53pm #

    Wow looks so comforting nothing can beat Dal and ricr
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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 28 Jan 2016 9:01pm #

      thanks Vidya!

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  3. swathi / 26 Jan 2016 10:48am #

    Dal looks delicious as usual very nice photo

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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 26 Jan 2016 11:23am #

      thanks Swathi!

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  4. [email protected] / 26 Jan 2016 1:26am #

    That dal looks so beautiful Binjal
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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 26 Jan 2016 11:22am #

      thanks Jyothi!

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  5. Subha / 25 Jan 2016 11:32pm #

    The dal looks very appealing..comfort food..

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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 26 Jan 2016 12:10am #

      thanks Subha!

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  6. Rafeeda @ The Big Sweet Tooth / 25 Jan 2016 11:14pm #

    To make dal appealing is a challenge and this looks so good! My mom always makes masoor and somehow I have caught up with her, but somehow I am trying to go into other daals as well, including tuvar daal. Will keep this in my bookmarks! 🙂
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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 26 Jan 2016 12:09am #

      thanks Rafeeda! 🙂 Mom’s recipes always best!

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  7. Sonal / 25 Jan 2016 11:10pm #

    One of my favorite dals Binjal! Absolutely comforting and such heartening presentation ❤️

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    • Binjal's VEG Kitchen / 26 Jan 2016 12:08am #

      thanks Sonal! ❤️

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