Preparation Time: 15 min.
Cooking Time: 30 min.
Serves: 2 persons

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of ashar (tuver daal)
• 1 medium-sized tomato
• 1 dry red chilli
• 2 tablespoons oil or ghee
• ½ tablespoon mustard seeds
• ¼ teaspoon fenugreek seeds (methi)
• 2 green chillies - cut into long pieces
• 1 small piece of ginger - cut into long pieces
• 2 tablespoons jaggery or 2 tablespoons sugar
• juice of one lemon
• salt to taste
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 tablespoon red chilli powder

Garnish:

• 2 tablespoons chopped green coriander

Method:

• wash tuver daal properly and soak in hot water for 15 minutes
• then cook in pressure cooker, with salt and tomatoes cut into big pieces
• cook on medium heat for 15 to 20 minutes (about 3 whistles of pressure cooker)
• when cooked, strain out the daal
• in a saucepan heat oil or ghee
• put little mustard,fenugreek still it splutters
• add the dry red chilli, chilli-ginger paste and stir
• then pour in the daal
• add turmeric powder, chilli powder, jaggery and boil for 10 minutes
• add lemon juice, garnish with green coriander

serve with plain rice