Simple Carrot Dal

Simple Carrot Dal

Ingrediants:

Split Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu - 1 cup

Onion-1 sliced

Tomato-2 chopped

Carrot-2 large chopped

Green chilli-2

Salt to taste

For Tempering:

Ghee-1 tblspn

Mustard seeds / Kaduku-1 tsp

Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-1 tsp

Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya podi- ¼ tsp

Curry leaves-1 spring

Method:

Soak dal for 30 mins and drain the water,this makes the dal a little delicate and cook fastly..

Now take dal,carrot,onion,tomato,green chilli in a kadai...Pour in 3 cups of water and bring that to boil.

Simmer this for 30 mins or until the dal is cooked through..

Season with salt and mix well..

Now make seasoning by heating ghee and crackling mustard seeds,cumin seeds,asafoetida and curry leaves..

Pour this over the dal and mix well..

Serve with rice or roti.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants

Take dal, onion, carrot, green chilli, tomatoes in a kadai....

Pour in water...

Simmer and cook till the dal is cooked

season with salt...Please don't add salt in the begining ,because it takes such a long time to cook...Don't ask me the reason I don't know..If anyone knows... let me know...

Mix well...

Now make tempering...Heat ghee

add in all tempering ingrediants...

pour it over the dal...

mix well

Serve...

Best with rice and any subzi