Dal with Coconut Milk

Masur dal (the little red-orange one that cooks quickly) is the most common dal used in Sri Lanka, popular with everyone. While there is a wide variety of dals and legumes for sale in the market, the others don’t have as big a role in the cuisine here as they do in India.

This particular version of masur dal is modeled after one that I used to eat almost every day, long ago in a little Tamil restaurant in Kandy. For a light lunch I would stop in and order dal and bread (a not-so-bad