Tomato Dal

Ingredients:

• 1 cup lentils dal
• 2 cups water
• Salt according to your taste
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (haldi)
• 3 to 4 tomatoes
• 1 onion
• 4 green chillies 
• chilly powder according to your taste
• 2 garlic pieces
• Tamarind according to your taste

Seasoning Ingredients:

• 1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)
• a pinch of asafetida (hing)
• 2 whole red chilies
• Curry leaves
• 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon of urad dal

Method:

1. Chop green chillies, tomatoes, onion and keep them aside.
2. Wash the dal.
3. In a pressure cooker add dal with 2 cups of water.
4. Now add turmeric, chopped green chillies, chopped tomatoes, chopped onion, tamarind, Chilly powder and garlic to the above and cook on high heat.
5. Continue cooking until you get 4 whistles from the cooker.
6. Turn off the heat and wait until all the steam has escaped before opening the pressure cooker.
7. In mean time prepare seasoning. Take a pan. Add oil and let it boil on a medium heat and add all the seasoning ingredients. It just takes 2 minutes for all the ingredients to cook.
8. After all the steam has escaped, mash the dal slightly. Add salt and cooked seasoning to the dal.

Your Tomato dal is ready to serve.