Name: Curried dahl soup
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Sri Lanka
Ingredients: 2 garlic cloves; 250 g (9 oz/1 cup) red lentils; 2 long dried red chillies; 1 red onion, finely chopped; 1 vine-ripened tomato, chopped; 50 g (1¾ oz) ghee; 1 sprig fresh curry leaves, leaves picked; 2 teaspoons cumin seeds; 1 teaspoon ground turmeric; 2 teaspoons black mustard seeds; 5 cm (2 in) piece ginger, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

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By Peter Kuruvita

Published 2009

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This is not the traditional dahl curry that we had at my grandmother’s house, but it is the one we always use at home and in the restaurant. It is probably closer to an Indian dahl soup you would get with a Thali meal in southern India or northern Sri Lanka.