steaming hot daal

Its no-fat, high in protien, the garlic and turmeric are both good for your cold - Just what you need on a cold night. My daughter loves drinking it as it is or with toasted bread. Here's how I make it.

pressure cook 1 cup - toor dal ( yellow lentils).

add 3 cups warm water, one chopped tomato, one slit green chillies ( you can increase or reduce it as per your taste), crushed 1 or 2 cloves garlic, handful of chopped coriander leaves, 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, salt to taste and let it boil till the tomatoes are soft.

Heat a small pan, add 1 tsp jeera ( cumin seeds ) and 1/2 tsp rai ( mustard seeds) and a pinch of hing ( asaefotida ), stifry for 1/2 min or untill the cumin starts spluttering and then add this to the boiling daal.

now you can eat it the way we did with roti and curry or just with some toasted bread.

or the way my son likes it - take a cereal bowl, pour daal in it and break one roti in small pieces, add a dollop of ghee and eat.

This daal can be used as a basic recipe. Since its a must have for us for dinner, I do lots of variations to it so as not to make it boring. Depending on whatever is there, sometimes I add finely chopped spinach to it, when you are boiling it or onions or grated carrots etc etc...and serve it with a curry and roti or hot steaming rice.