Aloo-Dal Curry
Easy curry for chappathis with Potatoes and Dal
Ingredients
- 3 nos Potato cut into pieces
- 1 cup Dal Parippu
- 2 cups Grated coconut
- 4 nos Small onions
- 4 nos Garlic pods
- ½ tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 ½ Chilly powder
- 2 tsp Coriander powder
- ½ tsp Garam masala powder
- Salt As reqd
For seasoning:-
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 3 nos Small onions optional)(finely chopped
- Curry leaves A few
- 3 nos Dry red chillies – 2 Kollamulaku
- 1 tbsp Coconut oil
Instructions
- Cook dal and potatoes along with sufficient water and salt in a pressure cooker.
- Heat up a pan or a kadai.
- Dry roast the grated coconut along with sliced small onions and garlic.
- When done, reduce the flame to minimum and add coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder.
- Roast for a few seconds stirring continuously and switch off the flame.
- Allow this to cool.
- Grind it to a fine paste in a mixer grinder.
- Add the paste into the dal-potato mix and mix well.
- Add sufficient water. Mix well and simmer it for a few mins.
- :- Check the level of salt and adjust, if necessary.
- When the desired consistency is required, remove from the flame.
- Heat oil in a pan or a kadai.
- Splutter mustard seeds and sautT dry red chillies and curry leaves.
- Add the above seasoning into the gravy and mix well.
- :- Serve warm with rotis or chappathis.
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