Urad Dhal

Name: Urad Dhal
Yield: Serves 6–7
Ingredients: 4 oz butter; 1 tbsp garam masala; 2 tbsp tomato purée (optional); 2 green chillies, slit open; Salt; 2 cups black lentils, unhulled; 2 tsp crushed garlic and ginger; 2 pints water; 2 tbsp whipping cream (optional)

Preparation info

Serves
6–7

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

2 cups black lentils, unhulled
Salt
2 green chillies, slit open
2

Main course
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Soak the lentils overnight, then drain and boil in water (three times the quantity of the lentils).
To this add the ginger, garlic and chillies.
It takes at least an hour and a half, perhaps more, for the slow cooking.
Then add the garam masala and butter, stirring all the time.
It will turn into a shiny, thick, dark porridge.<