Toor Dal with Rice

A very delicious Punjabi dal style Toor dal recipe which is cooked with tomatoes, onions, and spices. Serve it with boiled or jeera rice, it’s a match made in heaven.

What is Toor Dal?

Toor dal is split pigeon pea/arhar dal lentil that is widely used in Indian cooking mostly to make Sambhar. However, this recipe is the Punjabi way of cooking with Toor dal and tastes absolutely amazing with rice.

When it comes to comfort food, dal chawal aka dal and rice combination is the one and only comfort food for us.

Basic Ingredients for Toor dal:

The basic ingredients to make toor dal are listed below.

• Firstly, Toor dal-Pick and clean the dal before cooking to remove any adulteration.
• Onion-White or red any kind of onion is fine for the recipe.
• Tomato-I prefers plum tomatoes in my dal recipes.
• Asafetida- Do not miss asafetida as it gives a very nice flavor.
• Ghee-I uses ghee to make dals but if looking to make it vegan them.

How to make Toor Dal?

Making toor dal is very easy all you need to do is pressure cook the dal first. Then make the tadka seasoning by cooking onions, tomatoes, and spices. Finally pour the dal over tadka or tadka on top of dal, either way, you are done.

Looking for more such dal recipes to get some ideas for your lunch or dinner? Do not miss my Dhabe wali Dal and Dal Palak and the best one’s Musuri Dal.

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Toor Dal with Rice

Sapana Behl

A very delicious Punjabi dal style Toor dal cooked with tomatoes, onions, and spices. Served with boiled or jeera rice, it's a match made in heaven.

5 from 8 votes

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine North Indian

Servings 4 People

Equipment

• Pressure Cooker
• Pan

Ingredients

  

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• 200 g Toor dal/Arhar dal/Split pigeon pea
• water as required
• 1 onion chopped
• 2-3 to matoes chopped
• 3-4 green chili chopped
• 2 tablespoon clarified butter/desi ghee
• a pinch asafetida
• 1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 2 teaspoon coriander powder
• 1 teaspoon red chili powder
• salt to taste
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• 2 tablespoon coriander leaves

Instructions

 

• 2 cups rice
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoon olive oil

For Toor Dal

• Cook washed Toor Dal in 4 cups of water with a pinch of turmeric powder and salt for 1 whistle in a pressure cooker.
• Heat ghee in a tadka pan, add asafoetida, mustard seeds, and cumin seeds. As popping starts add chopped onions, sauté for 5 minutes.
• Add all spices and salt, stir and add chopped tomatoes and green chilies. Saute till ghee comes out. Pour this masala over boiled Toor Dal and let the dal cook for 8-10 minutes.
• Garnish with chopped coriander, green chilly, onion rounds, and garam masala.

For Rice

• Heat oil in a pressure cooker, add cumin seeds, sauté and add 3 cups of water.
• As water is slight warm add washed rice  a teaspoon of salt and close the lid.Cook for 1 whistle.
• You can also make jeera rice in open pan but checkout for water according to type of rice.
• Serve the comforting toor dal with jeera rice.

Notes

Adjust spices as per your taste.

Store the leftover dal in refrigeartor.

Keyword Arhar Dal, Punjabi dal chawal, Punjabi Toor dal, Toor dal,

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Sapana Behl