Absolutely love this signature ‘House Black Dal’ influenced from Dishoom cookbook & restaurant. This has been converted to be Whole Food Plant Based/ Vegan, without impacting the incredible flavour! What’s everyone’s favourite Indian/ Dishoom recipe? Full recipe below 👇🏼 🤔🍚🥘🫓🍛
by HibbertUK
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Recipe & Video here, if anybody is interested… https://youtu.be/nO9aYAbGHjQ?si=-rTgnSXLJmeXlbr2
Prep 30 min – Cook 4 hr + (Serves 8-10)
INGREDIENTS
300g black urad dal
3-4 litres cold water
12g garlic paste
10g ginger paste
70g tomato puree
8g fine sea salt
⅔ tsp deggi mirch chilli powder
⅓ tsp garam masala
120-160g coconut cream
Chapatis, to serve
METHOD
Put the dal into a large bowl, cover with water and whisk for 10 seconds. Let the dal settle, then pour out the water. Repeat three or four times, until the water is clear. Tip the dal into a large saucepan and pour in at least four litres of cold water. Bring to a boil and cook steadily for two to three hours. Skim off any impurities that rise to the surface, and add more boiling water as required to keep the grains well covered. The dal grains need to become completely soft, with the skins coming away from the white grain. When pressed, the white part should be creamy, rather than crumbly. When cooked, turn off the heat and set aside for 15 minutes.
In a bowl, mix the garlic and ginger pastes, tomato puree, salt, chilli powder and garam masala into a paste.
Carefully pour off the dal cooking water, then pour on enough freshly boiled water to cover the dal by 3-4cm. Bring to a boil over a medium-high heat, then add the aromatic paste and butter. Cook rapidly for 30 minutes, stirring regularly to prevent the mixture from sticking.
Lower the heat and simmer for one to one and a half hours more, stirring regularly to prevent it from sticking, and adding a little boiling water if the liquid level gets near the level of the grains. Eventually, the dal will turn thick and creamy. The creaminess must come from the grains disintegrating into the liquid and enriching it, not from the water being allowed to evaporate, leaving only the grains behind.
Add the coconut cream and cook for a further 15 minutes. Serve with chapatis or other Indian bread.
I’ve had this recipe bookmarked for a very long time and just not got around to making it. I have a feeling there’s an ingredient (dried rose petals) in the Garam masala that it recommends you make rather than use a generic spice blend that I can’t find.
You’ve spurred me on to give it a go though! Looks great, I love a good Dhal.
If I was on death row, tarka dal with gobi, chapatis and a side salad would be my final meal. The thing is as well, lentil curries can be made for virtually no money — epspecially once you build up a stock of spices. Where I live there is a large Indian and Pakistani community and there are shops everywhere you can buy the ingredients for next to nothing. I eat this kind of food every week: red lentil pakora, cauliflower and onion baked bhajis, mushroom vindaloo… The spices are out of this world.