Langarwali dal in slow cooker
A hearty, comforting slow cooked dal which is very easy to cook and uses no fancy ingredients - yet so delicious and flavorful.
Servings: 4 PEOPLE
Ingredients
DAL INGREDIENTS
- 1-1/4 cup Chana dal OR Bengal Gram lentils
- 1 cup Black gram dal OR Split black Urad dal
- 5 cup Water
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon Haldi (Turmeric powder)
- 1 tablespoon Chopped Ginger
- 2 tablespoon Chopped cilantro leaves - to garnish
FOR TEMPERING or TADKA
- 1 medium Onion,chopped
- 1 medium Tomato, chopped
- 2 small cloves of Garlic, chopped
- 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds (Jeera)
- 1/2 teaspoon Red chili powder
- 2 teaspoon Coriander powder (sukha dhaniya)
- 1 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
- 1 tablespoon Ghee
Instructions
- Assemble: all the ingredients.
- Wash and clean dal. Transfer dal to the slow cooker.
- Add water..
- Spices..
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 8 hours or until dal is well blended.
- Fully cooked dal.
- Add garam masala.
- Assemble: ingredients for tempering/ tadka.
- Heat ghee in a separate pan, add cumin seeds, onion, and garlic. Cook until onions are translucent, mix in copped tomatoes, rest of the spices and cook until tomatoes are soft and ghee starts to separate from the mixture.
- Pour tadka on the dal.
- Mix it well.
- Garnish with chopped cilantro leaves.
- Serve hot with tandoori roti.
