Restaurant Style Dal Fry is an easy, quick, and delicious. Restaurant Style Dal Fry is perfect with steamed rice, jeera rice or hot roti/fulka. Restaurant Style Dal Fry is a popular Indian dal/curry recipe; this is something you often find served at Indian restaurants.
A simple and great tasting is all that can be said about this excellent dish, it has a medium thick consistency and a wholesome feel to it. It is a perked up with an aromatic tempering along with fried onions and tomatoes, this dal has a very pleasing texture and irresistible flavor too. From roadside dhabas to global Indian restaurants, almost all diners serve this all-time favorite Dal Fry.
Ingredients1 cup Tuvar Dal/Arhar Dal/Split Pigeon Peas
1 medium sized Onion Chopped
1 tsp Ginger-Garlic Paste
1 medium sized Tomato Chopped
1 Green Chili Chopped
2 Bay Leaves
1 small piece of Cinnamon Stick
2 Whole Dry Red Chili
5-6 Curry Leaves
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
½ tsp Red Chili Powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
½ tsp Mustard Seeds
½ tsp Cumin Seeds
Pinch of Hing/Asafoetida
Salt
1 tbsp Oil
½ Lemon Juice
¼ cup Coriander Leaves Chopped
Method
* Wash dal 2-3 times, add required water, then pressor cook it in a pressor cooker for 3-4 whistle.
* Once cooker cool down, remove it from the cooker, mix it well and keep aside.
* In a deep kadhai or pan add oil, once oil hot enough, add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, once seeds pop up add pinch of hing and pinch of red chili powder.
* Now add bay leaves, cinnamon stick, whole dry red chili, curry leaves and sauté for few seconds.
* Add chopped onion and green chili, fry it till translucent, then add chopped tomato, ginger-garlic paste, again stir it for few seconds.
* Now add red chili powder, turmeric powder, garam masala, salt, then stir fry it for 2 minutes.
* Add boiled/cooked dal into the masala mixture, add required water as per your choice, mix it well, and bring it to the boil and cook it for 3-4 minutes on medium flame.
* Remove from the flame, add lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves and mix it.
* This easy restaurant style dal fry is ready for serve, serve it with, jeera rice, steamed rice or roti as a side dish.