Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, hyderabadi khatti dal (sour lentils). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This Hyderabadi khatti dal is a popular lentil recipe made from split pigeon peas or arhar dal. The word 'khatti' translates to 'sour' in english. So the Exact translation of 'Khatti dal' will be 'sour lentils'. although the dal has sour taste but it is delicious and thats why I am posting it on the blog.
Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have hyderabadi khatti dal (sour lentils) using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils):
- Prepare Daal–
- Take arhar or tuvar daal
- Get chopped tomato
- Take grated ginger
- Get grated garlic pieces
- Prepare turmeric powder
- Take salt
- Prepare tamarind paste
- Make ready coriander powder
- Take red chili powder
- Prepare water
- Prepare tempering–
- Take Ghee
- Take mustard seeds
- Get finely chopped garlic
- Prepare whole red chili
- Make ready curry leaves
It is soured with tamarind and seasoned with curry leaves and. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal is a delicious tangy dal preparation tempered with curry leaves, mustard seeds, cumin, dry red chilies and garlic having balanced flavour of sourness and spiciness. Hyderabadi khatti dal couples up beautifully with steamed rice, pickle, side with any dry veggie preparation. Khatti Dal is one of simple lentil based sour and spicy tasting dal delicacy mostly made in Hyderabad.
Instructions to make Hyderabadi Khatti Dal (Sour Lentils):
- Wash, Rinse Daal and put in a cooker, add chopped tomatoes, crushed or grated garlic and ginger.
- Add salt, turmeric powder,water and pressure cook the dal for 4-5 whistles or more till the lentils are cooked and mushy.
- Mix tamarind paste with little water and red chili powder. Open the cooker and mash the dal with the help of spatula. now add tamarind paste, little more Turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt according to your taste and cook till the raw smell of spices gone.
- Once the dal is cooked. Heat ghee. Add mustard seeds or cumin seeds. I like mustard seeds so I used that. Let them crackle then add chopped garlic. and at last red chili and curry leaves.
- Pour the tempering over daal and cover for 5 minutes at least for the flavours to mingle properly with Daal. Serve with Roti or Rice.
This Khatti dal is often served with hot bowl of steamed white rice along with any chicken fry or mutton fry or kheema fry or prawns fry or potato or any vegetable fry. Well this Khatti dal is basically Hyderabadi version of good old tomato dal. It is made with toor dal or pigeon pea lentils. These are available in Indian or most Asian groceries or The literal translation of Khatti is sour. Hyderabadi Khatti Dal is kind of like a lentil soup with a slight tangy flavor due to the addition of tamarind concentrate.
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