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(170) Whole Red Toor ( Lentil)

Lal tuver

Ingredients

  • ½ cup whole red toor.
  • ½ tsp. Soda bi carb.
  • 2 cup water for cooking.
  • 1 tsp. Salt.
  • ½ tsp. Turmeric powder
  • 1 tbsp. Besan( Channa dal flour)
  • 2 washed kokam or 1 tsp. lemon juice.
  • 2 tbsp. finely chopped jaggery.
  • Tempering Ingredients (Vaghar)
  • 1 tbsp. Oil
  • ½ tsp. Mustard seeds.
  • ¼ tsp. Asafoetida powder.
  • 1 tsp. Red chilli powder.
  • 1 tsp. Coriander Cumin powder.
  • 8-10 Curry leaves.
  • 1 tbsp. Chopped coriander leaves.

Method

  1. Soak whole toor overnight after adding soda bi Carb.
  2. Next morning drain water, check and discard hard grains.
  3. Wash thoroughly 2-3 times. Add water, salt and turmeric powder.
  4. In pressure cooker arrange toor vessel at bottom and on top of it keep small vessel contains kokam with 3 tbsp. water.
  5. Pressure cook upto 4 whistles.
  6. Open the lid when pressure releases.
  7. Drain water from cooked Toor and keep aside.
  8. Mix besan in 2 tbsp. of drained toor liquid and make lump free batter. Keep aside.
  9. In another thick bottom pan mix cooked toor, kokam, besan batter and jaggery. Mix thoroughly and stir continuously otherwise besan will stick at bottom.
  10. Heat oil in tempering vessel.
  11. Add mustard seeds and wait for crackling sound. Now add Asafoetida powder, Curry leaves, Red chilli powder, Coriander Cumin powder and Coriander leaves. Soute for 10-15 seconds.
  12. Pour vagar and besan batter into toor vessel. Stir continuously till it starts boiling. Close the lid. Allow to cook for 5 minutes in slow flame. Stir occasionally. Adjust the consistency by adding cooked toor liquid.
  13. Taste the dish before serving. Serve hot with steamed rice, Bajri roti, Jowar roti, Fulka roti, Bhakhri, Paratha, Jeera rice or as you wish
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