Dill Dal

Name: Dill Dal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 tsp brown or black mustard seeds; ¼ tsp asafoetida powder; 1 fresh green chilli, finely chopped; ½ tsp ground turmeric; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 2 dried red chillies; 1 tsp finely grated fresh ginger or ginger paste; 225 g yellow moong/mung dal; 30 g fresh dill leaves, finely chopped; 1 tsp salt, or to taste; 1 tsp ground coriander; 900 ml cold water; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp cumin seeds

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

Chilli & Mint

By Torie True

Published 2021

About

Occasionally I receive little tasting bowls of whatever is on the stove out the back at one of my favourite grocery stores in Tooting, run by brothers Rohit and Arun. It’s always vegetarian and guaranteed to be delicious. I was given a bowl of dill dal the other day and I knew that it had to go into this book. They reeled off what was in it and what I needed to do, so I went home and made it to their exact specifications. It is dal perfection and deliciousl