Time for another dish from the Curry Focus website recipes.
A few weeks ago I made a great dhal and decided to try the Tarka Dhal recipe and see how this compared to my previous effort.
I already had everything that I needed for the recipe but went to my favorite Indian supply store to pick up two of their delicious large stuffed paratha – they are to die for.
I decided to make more dhal than I needed for the meal so that I could freeze the extra for another day.
The lentils soaked during afternoon whilst I did some work out in the back yard.
I started to cook the meal in the evening.
I quickly worked out that I could probably cook the whole meal in 40 minutes if my timing was correct.
I drained the lentils and added the required water and heated them up. Once the mixture was boiling, I turned the heat down so that the lentils were simmering well and turned to the onions.
I chopped up the onions and garlic and then started to cook the onions.
The onions were ready in about 15 minutes and I put them aside.
Then I cooked the spices and mixed in the previously cooked onions.
The lentils were finished cooking at about the same time so I added most of the onions and spice mixture and mixed it up really well.
I chopped up the last of my fresh cilantro that I got from my long serving cilantro plant whilst the paratha were being microwaved.
Then the dhal was served with a garnishing of the remaining onion (which sank straight into the dhal) and some chopped cilantro.
There was only the two of us for dinner and the dhal was quickly eaten. It was another successful meal from the catalog of Curry Focus recipes.
The voting resulted in a rating of 7.5 out of 10, which is pretty good.
The extra dhal was put into containers when it was cool and went into the freezer for another day, which probably won’t be too far into the future.
