Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, toor dal or yellow split pea soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Toor dal, dry red chillies and Kashmiri chilli powder are all readily available in Indian grocery stores. Use an immersion blender to purée some of the dal, leaving some intact and getting some very smooth, or whisk vigorously to break up some of the soft dal. With Cereals it makes a complete balanced vegetarian diet which is rich in protein.
Toor Dal or Yellow Split Pea Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Toor Dal or Yellow Split Pea Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have toor dal or yellow split pea soup using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Toor Dal or Yellow Split Pea Soup:
- Prepare 1.5 cups toor dal or yellow pigeon peas
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
- Make ready To season the dal
- Prepare 1/4 teaspoon asafoetida or hing
- Get 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
- Take 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- Get 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- Get 1/2 tablespoon turmeric powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon ginger paste
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon garlic paste
- Prepare 1/2 Serrano pepper, sliced thinly
- Prepare 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- Get 2 small tomatoes, finely chopped, the riper the better
- Get to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 teaspoon ghee
Yellow Split pea, also known as the Field Pea, Soup Pea, dry pea or Matar Dal, belongs to the species Pisum sativum, together with the fresh garden peas, Sno-Pea and Sugar Snap Pea. The field pea ( Pisum sativum ) is a cool-season crop grown for its mature dried edible seed s , which can be marketed whole or split or ground into flour. Toor Dal looks like yellow split lentils. It is the tastiest of all the lentils and the most popular dal throughout India.
Steps to make Toor Dal or Yellow Split Pea Soup:
- Wash toor dal and soak for at least 4 hours
- Put soaked toor dal, the 1/4 teaspoon of turmeric powder, and salt into a pressure cooker. Cook for 30-40 minutes on medium heat.
- Whisk the dal till smooth, and keep it aside.
- In a pan, heat oil on medium heat. Add hing and cumin seeds.
- Add ginger, garlic, and sliced peppers.
- When ginger and garlic turn golden, add onions and cover the pan for 2-3 minutes or until onions soften.
- Add tomatoes, cover till they’ve become slightly mushy, then mix in the three powdered spices and a pinch of salt.
- Pour in the dal, and mix well. Simmer for 10-12 minutes.
- Turn off the heat, and garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves. Serve with rice or chapattis.
This dish is a specialty of West India, where it is eaten almost every day. Yellow split peas are most often used to prepare dal in Guyana, Suriname, Mauritius, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Fiji. Referred to as simply dal, it is prepared similarly to dals found in India, but also may be used in a variety of other recipes. Yellow split peas are used to make a sweet snack in Beijing cuisine. But, I prefer to saute the tadka first and the cook the dal with it.
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