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Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
This Hyderabadi khatti dal is a popular lentil recipe made from split pigeon peas or arhar dal. The word 'khatti' translates to 'sour' in english. So the Exact translation of 'Khatti dal' will be 'sour lentils'. although the dal has sour taste but it is delicious and thats why I am posting it on the blog.
Steps to Make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils)
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hyderabadi khatti dal (sour lentils) using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
Ingredients
The ingredients needed to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils):
- Prepare for Daal–
- Take 1 cup arhar or tuvar daal
- Take 1 chopped tomato
- Prepare 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- Prepare 3-4 grated garlic pieces
- Prepare 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
- Prepare 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Get 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- Prepare 3 cups water
- Make ready For tempering–
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Ghee
- Take 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Prepare 5-6 finely chopped garlic
- Prepare 1 whole red chili
- Make ready some curry leaves
Khatti Daal (Sour Lentil) is very famous all over the region, but it basically belongs to Hyderabadi Cuisine. No doubt, this is the tastiest and yummilicious daal. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal is a very popular daal recipe mainly made in Hyderabad (India), It's tangy tamarind-tomato masoor daal and often. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal is a delicious tangy dal preparation tempered with curry leaves, mustard seeds, cumin, dry red chilies and garlic having balanced flavour of sourness and spiciness.
Instructions
Steps to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils):
- Wash, Rinse Daal and put in a cooker, add chopped tomatoes, crushed or grated garlic and ginger.
- Add salt, turmeric powder,water and pressure cook the dal for 4-5 whistles or more till the lentils are cooked and mushy.
- Mix tamarind paste with little water and red chili powder. Open the cooker and mash the dal with the help of spatula. now add tamarind paste, little more Turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt according to your taste and cook till the raw smell of spices gone.
- Once the dal is cooked. Heat ghee. Add mustard seeds or cumin seeds. I like mustard seeds so I used that. Let them crackle then add chopped garlic. and at last red chili and curry leaves.
- Pour the tempering over daal and cover for 5 minutes at least for the flavours to mingle properly with Daal. Serve with Roti or Rice.
Hyderabadi khatti dal couples up beautifully with steamed rice, pickle, side. Well this Khatti dal is basically Hyderabadi version of good old tomato dal. It is made with toor dal or pigeon pea lentils. These are available in Indian or most Asian groceries or The literal translation of Khatti is sour. Indian culinary expert Madhur Jaffrey experienced a version of this tarka—a combination of fried spices and aromatics stirred into a soupy dal—while visiting the South Indian city of Hyderabad.
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