Restaurant style Dal Fry Recipe – Toor Dal Fry / Arhar Dal Fry Recipe

Restaurant style dal fry recipe with step by step pictures. Dal tadka and Dal fry are two different and popular side dish for rice and roti served in North India. In dal fry, cooked toor dal (Arhar dal in Hindi) is added to the sauteed onion, tomato and spices mixture whereas dal tadka is prepared by pressure cooking toor dal along with onion, tomato. Then it is tempered with spice powders separately. Dal fry can be prepared with moong dal as well. After I tried North Indian dal tadka successfully, I made this easy restaurant style dal fry recipe at home just to find the difference between two. Yes, there are some variations in the method of making, ingredients and taste. Recently when I went to mini Punjabi dhaba, I had this dal fry as a side dish for jeera rice. But I din’t like its taste. I felt it was bland. But this restaurant style dal fry recipe I tried after watching few YouTube videos came out very well with great taste ! I loved it very much. Even though I prepared it (without charcoal) without doing dhungar method, it was so good and flavorful. I served it with plain rice adding ghee. I also prepared Padawal sabzi / Snake gourd sabzi as side dish for this dal fry. It was a yummy combo which I liked it very much. I will post the sabzi recipe tomorrow. Here you go, dal fry in restaurant style with step by step pictures.

Dal Fry Recipe In Restaurant Style

North Indian Dal Fry Recipe In Restaurant Style - Toor dal fry for rice.

Cuisine: North Indian

Category: Dal Recipes

Serves: Serves 3

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 20 Minutes

Total time: 30 Minutes

Chitra Ganapathy

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml

To Pressure Cook Toor dal / Arhar dal - 1/2 cup Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp Water - 2.5 cups Cooking oil - Few drops To saute Cooking oil or ghee - 2 tbsp Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp Red chilli - 1 no (optional) Green chilli - 1 no (finely chopped) Big onion - 1 no (-do-) Garlic cloves – 4 nos (chopped) Ginger – 1 tsp (chopped) Ripe tomato - 1 no (-do-) Curry leaves - Few Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp Sugar - 1/4 tsp To Garnish Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp (Finely chopped) Ghee - 1 tbsp

HOW TO MAKE DAL FRY – RESTAURANT STYLE

1. Wash and pressure cook toor dal adding turmeric powder, water and drops of cooking oil.
2. Mash the dal and set aside.
3. Heat ghee in a kadai. Fry all the items given under “To saute”.
4. Add the cooked toor dal and boil for few minutes.
5. Garnish with coriander leaves and ghee. Serve with jeera rice, roti !

DAL FRY RECIPE - STEP BY STEP PICTURES

Wash and pressure cook toor dal adding turmeric powder, few drops of cooking oil and 2.5 cups of water. Cook in low flame for one to two whistles. Open the cooker after the steam is released. Mash the dal well. Set aside. In a kadai, heat ghee / oil . Splutter cumin seeds. Saute big onion, chopped green chilli, curry leaves, garlic and ginger till transparent. Add finely chopped tomato and saute till mushy. Add red chilli powder, garam masala powder, sugar and required salt. Saute for a minute. Add the cooked toor dal. Mix well. Simmer the dal for 5 minutes. Crush kasoori methi and add to the dal at the end. Switch off the the flame and garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves. You can also garnish the dal with a tbsp of fresh cream if you like. Enjoy !

Note

Adjust the quantity of spice powders as per your taste. For variations, you can use moong dal or a mixture of 5 dals.

Try this easy, yummy restaurant style dal fry recipe for rice, roti ! Enjoy with any simple side dish.

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