Beyond Curry: Daal Tadka Recipe

Ingredients (16)

• For the Daal:
• 1 cup tuvar daal (yellow lentils/pigeon peas)
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ghee ( clarified butter)
• pinch of asafoetida
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 2 1/2 cups water
• Salt
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• For the Tadka:
• 1 1/2 tablespoons ghee
• 3 Mundu chillies (these are small, round chillies from South India, alternatively any dry red chilli will do)
• 1 teaspoon whole black mustard seeds
• 1 teaspoon whole cumin seed, plus 1 1/2 teaspoons toasted and ground cumin seed
• 6 curry leaves
• 1/2 teaspoon asafoetida
• 1/4 teaspoon red chilli powder