Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, hyderabadi khatti dal (sour lentils). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
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.
Recipe of Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils)
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hyderabadi khatti dal (sour lentils) using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients
The ingredients needed to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils):
- Make ready for Daal–
- Prepare 1 cup arhar or tuvar daal
- Make ready 1 chopped tomato
- Get 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- Take 3-4 grated garlic pieces
- Get 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 tablespoon tamarind paste
- Get 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon red chili powder
- Prepare 3 cups water
- Prepare For tempering–
- Take 1 tablespoon Ghee
- Make ready 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- Take 5-6 finely chopped garlic
- Make ready 1 whole red chili
- Take 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
Instructions 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.
As simple as that Steps to Prepare Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils)
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