Dal Tadka Recipe - Punjabi Dhaba Style (2024)

Dal Tadka Recipe | Yellow Tarka Dal Recipe Punjabi Dhaba Style with detailed photo and video recipe. An extremely simple and easy lentil-based curry recipe made with a combination of pigeon pea and moong dal. It is a staple food of many Indians which is typically served with either rice or chapati bread for lunch and dinner. There are myriad ways to prepare this curry but this recipe post is dedicated to a simple pressure cooker-based recipe method for quick and easy results.

Dal Tadka Recipe | Yellow Tarka Dal Recipe Punjabi Dhaba Style with step-by-step photo and video recipe. Lentil or dal-based curry recipe is a staple food prepared for day-to-day lunch and dinner. There are different types of lentils and each has its own of preparing this simple and easy recipe with a combination of spices, ingredients, and vegetables. One such easy and simple lentil-based dhaba style curry is dal tadka recipe made with a combination of toor dal and moong dal.

I am a big fan of simple and pressure cooker-based recipes. Generally, for any dal-based recipes, it is typically pressure cooked to make it a tender and creamy texture. Later it is tempered with spices and basic vegetables like onion and tomato for a masala taste. Well this is not a complex procedure, but certainly can be made more efficiently and quickly. Basically, instead of using 2-3 utensils, you can make this dhaba-style tarka dal in just one pressure cooker. I have added all the veggies, spices, and lentil combinations to the cooker for the pressure-cooking process. This is later just tempered with basic spices for the color and spiciness of the curry. As a matter of fact you may skip it to make the simple dal fry, but to justify the name of the curry I have added additional tempering. Do try this way and I am certain that you would save a lot of cooking time.

Furthermore, some more related and additional tips, suggestions, and variants to dal tadka recipe. Firstly, in this recipe, I have used a combination of moong and toor dal to prepare this tarka dal. While it is not mandatory to use both and you can use either one of them to prepare. Yet I would recommend preparing the authentic dhaba style with a 1:1 ratio of toor and moong dal. Secondly, you can also use an instant pot as a replacement for a pressure cooker to cook dal and veggies in it. You may use the rice or lentil preset option in your instant pot to cook lentils. Lastly, add 1 tsp of oil or ghee before pressure cooking so that it does not overflow or ooze out from the whistle. Also, you may skip the tempering if you like to keep it simple dal fry.

Finally, do visit my other related Dal Recipes Collection with this post of a yellow Punjabi dhaba style dal tadka recipe. It mainly includes my other related recipes like Dal Makhani Recipe – Restaurant Style in Pressure Cooker, Butter Dal Fry Recipe, instant dal premix, panchmel dal, maa ki dal, langar dal, dal tadka, keerai kootu, tomato pappu, pesara pappu charu. Further to these I would also like to add some more related recipe categories like,

• Curry Recipes
• Rice Recipes
• Breakfast Recipes

About Dal Tadka:

It is an easy and simple lentil curry made with an equal proportion of moong dal and toor dal with a spiced ghee tempering. It is a popular North Indian cuisine staple food which is typically served with either roti or flavored rice. The word tadka or tarka means seasoning or tempering which adds a unique flavor to the cooked dal. Adding tadka or seasoning is not mandatory but gives uniqueness to this lentil curry. Moreover, the tadka or seasoning is given using ghee, but using any cooking oil should give the same taste.

Cooking dal or lentil curry is an easy affair and follows the same pressure cooking followed by seasoning with veggies and spices. However, this recipe post explains a much more easy and simpler way of cooking in less time and more efficiently. In other words, all the ingredients and vegetables are added and pressure cooked with only optional tadka with spices in it. This recipe follows the unique dhaba style tadka which makes it very special and unique.

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Dal Tadka Recipe - Punjabi Dhaba Style

HEBBARS KITCHEN

Easy Dal Tadka Recipe | Yellow Tarka Dal Recipe Punjabi Dhaba Style

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Course dal

Cuisine punjabi

Servings 4 Servings

Calories 344 kcal

Ingredients

for pressure cooking:

• ▢ 1 cup toor dal
• ▢ ½ cup moong dal
• ▢ 2 tomato
• ▢ 1 onion, cubed
• ▢ 10 cloves garlic
• ▢ 1 bay leaf
• ▢ 1 black cardamom
• ▢ ½ tsp turmeric
• ▢ 1 tsp salt
• ▢ 2 tsp ghee
• ▢ 4 cup water

for tempering:

• ▢ 2 tbsp ghee
• ▢ 4 cloves garlic, sliced
• ▢ 1 tsp cumin
• ▢ 2 tsp kasuri methi
• ▢ 1 tsp chilli powder
• ▢ pinch hing
• ▢ 2 tbsp coriander, chopped

Instructions

• firstly, in a pressure cooker take1 cup toor dal and ½ cup moong dal. make sure to rinse the dal well.

• add 2 tomato, 1 onion, 10 cloves garlic, 1 bay leaf, 1 black cardamom, ½ tsp turmeric, and 1 tsp salt.

• also, add 2 tsp ghee and 4 cup water.

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• cover and pressure cook for 5 whistles or until the dal is cooked well.

• mash the dal slightly and adjust consistency as required.

• to prepare the tempering, heat 2 tbsp ghee.

• add 4 cloves garlic and fry for a minute.

• also add 1 tsp cumin, 2 tsp kasuri methi, 1 tsp chilli powder, pinch hing.

• splutter the tempering and pour over the dal.

• add in2 tbsp coriander and mix well.

• finally, enjoy cooker dal tadka with jeera rice.

Nutrition

Calories: 344kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 17gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 26mgSodium: 648mgPotassium: 304mgFiber: 10gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 778IUVitamin C: 20mgCalcium: 90mgIron: 3mg

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How to make Dal Tadka with step-by-step photos:

1. firstly, in a pressure cooker take1 cup toor dal and ½ cup moong dal. make sure to rinse the dal well.
   
2. add 2 tomato, 1 onion, 10 cloves garlic, 1 bay leaf, 1 black cardamom, ½ tsp turmeric, and 1 tsp salt.
   
3. also, add 2 tsp ghee and 4 cup water.
   
4. cover and pressure cook for 5 whistles or until the dal is cooked well.
   
5. mash the dal slightly and adjust consistency as required.
   
6. to prepare the tempering, heat 2 tbsp ghee.
   
7. add 4 cloves garlic and fry for a minute.
   
8. also add 1 tsp cumin, 2 tsp kasuri methi, 1 tsp chilli powder, pinch hing.
   
9. splutter the tempering and pour over the dal.
   
10. add in2 tbsp coriander and mix well.
    
11. finally, enjoy cooker dal tadka with jeera rice.
    

Notes:

• Firstly, make sure to add moong dal to get a nice creamy consistency dal.
• Also, you can add ginger along with garlic for enhanced flavor.
• Additionally, pressure cook on medium flame, else the dal may not cook well.
• Finally, cooker dal tadka recipe tastes great when spicy tadka is added on top.

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