MY KITCHEN: SIMPLE DAL (Dalithoy in Konkani)

SIMPLE DAL (Dalithoy in Konkani)

9:08 PM

Priyanka Prabhu

I am back with My First Recipe for today; it’s a very easy and a simple method to prepare Dal.

The easiest and the first recipe thought my mom to me yesterday was how to prepare Dal in a simple way. Dal as we call Dalithoy in my mother tongue Konkani is a very well known dish. We prepare dalithoy in almost every function it could be festival say Nagara Panchami, Ganesh Charturthi, Gowri Puja or in marriages, anniversary etc. It’s a very essential recipe for Konkani’s in their every function and it’s very easy to prepare it takes hardly 15 minutes to prepare. It requires minimal ingredients and that is very easily found at everyone’s home.

Let me now discuss how to prepare it

The required Ingredients are as follows:

INGREDIENTS: (for 4 members)

½ Cup (pav) Dal (Togari Belle in Kannada or Tori Dali in Konkani)

2 Green Chilies

Pinch of Hing or asafoiteda

2 Dried Red Chilies (long one)

10 Curry leaves (as per your taste)

1 tsp of Mustard seeds

5 tsp of Coconut Oil

Salt for taste (1 ½ tsp of powdered salt or 1 tsp of crystal salt)

PROCEDURE TO PREPARE:

1) Wash Dal thoroughly using clean water twice or thrice.

2) Boil the washed Dal along with two glass of water in the Pressure cooker for about 5 minutes.

3)Now transfer the boiled Dal into an utensil and add water to it (if u like to have it in a diluted form or else its ok no need of adding water you can have it without adding extra water as suggested).I prefer to have it in a little diluted form.

4) Next start heating the Dal.

5) Take a Pinch of Hing or asafoiteda in water start to dissolve it in water and then add it to the diluted Dal solution.

6) Slice the two Green chilies into two halves and add it to the Dal solution.

7) Add Salt according to your taste (or as I have mentioned)

8) Boil this for nearly 5-8 minutes till it starts bubbling up with heat.

9) At the end season it and remove it from flames and Dal is ready to be served hot for four members.

HOW TO SEASON IT:

1) Take a small seasoning pan (kadai)

2) Add Coconut Oil, Mustard Seeds and Curry Leaves to it.

3) Cut the dried red chilies into two or three pieces and add to the oil.

4) Heat it until the mustard seeds start popping and ad to the hot Dal solution

Your Dal will be ready within no time. It will go very well with white rice, chapatti and hot buns. Some add Ginger to Dal I don’t like to have Dal with ginger taste in it, I feel it spoils the original taste of authentic Dal prepared for Konkani functions and festivals; that’s my opinion but if you prefer to have like that you can add a little ginger and coriander leaves as well.