Yellow dal | dal fry recipe – yellow dal is a staple dish in Indian homes. It is a simple and comforting dish that goes well with rice and roti too. I used moong dal in this recipe, you can replace it with toor dal too.
Check out my Masoor dal tadka and dabba style dal tadka.
Yellow dal recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Yellow moong dal pasi paruppu
- 3 tsp oil
- 1 tsp cumin seeds
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 and ¼ tsp sambar powder
- 1 onion
- 1 tomato
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- 2 pinches kasoori methi
- Salt as needed
- Water to cook the dal
Instructions
- In a Pressure Cooker put oil and add the cumin seeds. When it splutters, add the onions and tomatoes one by one. Just saute for 2 mins.
- Then add the sambar powder and add 2 cups of water.
- Add the turmeric powder. Let this boil for 3-5 mins.
- Then add the moong dal and add salt. Close the cooker with lid and cook till 6-7 whistles
- Then add the sambar powder and add 2 cups of water.
- Add the turmeric powder. Let this boil for 3-5 mins.
- Then add the moong dal and add salt. Close the cooker with lid and cook till 6-7 whistles.
- When it is done add the milk and boil for 2 mins.
- Finally, add kasoori methi and garnish with coriander leaves.
- Adding milk gives a creamy texture and kasturi methi gives an exotic flavor.
- Serve hot with roti/rice.
In a Pressure Cooker put oil and add cumin seeds When it splutters, add the onions and tomatoes one by one. Just saute for 2 mins.
Then add the sambar powder and add 2 cups of water. Add the turmeric powder. Let this boil for 3-5 mins. Then add the moong dal and add salt. Close the cooker with lid and cook till 6-7 whistles.
When it is done add the milk and boil for 2 mins. Finally, add kasturi methi and garnish with coriander leaves.
Adding milk gives a creamy texture and kasturi methi gives an exotic flavor.
Serve hot with roti/rice.
Adding milk, kasuri methi in daal se so new for me…interesting
oh thank u priti.I just tried it a long back and clicked so well.
Good one 🙂 even i like the idea of adding milk!
Glad that u liked the kootu 🙂
Thank u so much raji.
Even adding milk is new to me. Sounds interesting for me too…Lets give me a try..
Wow.. its a nice variation in dhall. 🙂 looks so creamy and yumm..
Thank u so much nithya
This looks really nice.never tried this way..I tried milk kheer from ur blog and it was superb :)Thanks dear !!
Oh Thats great chitra.Thanks for trying my recipe.
hi jeyashri
can we use toor dal instead of moong dal.
Renu you can replace toor dal and can also add a hand ful of channa dal too
all ur recipes r tasty n colorful………..thanks a lot for ur good recipes…
Jeyashri this is the first recipe i tried from ur space and came out really tasty. Thank u.
Nice recipe. Jeyashri.. when i tried this it came out really yummy. Thk u
i tried this recipe .. it was very tasty n attractive.i added fresh methi leaves instead of kasturi methi. looking forward to try other recipes from your blog. u r amazing. thanks for all your hard work in posting recipes n pics. its helping me a lot.
I came across your site few days back. Its really helpful for me. Thanks
Am trying most of your recipes and it is really good too. Thanks for sharing
Hi nice. it is kasuri methi , not kasturi.
thank you, its a very old post, that time i didn't know properly. Later forgot to edit.
How wil wil it take if we dnt use a pressure cooker??
soak dal in water for 30 minutes and boil in a pan. It will get cooked soon. Or you can microwave it too
i loved it… it was yummy 🙂