How to make dal fry (curry) and khichdi?

Welcome to Krupa's Indian Food recipe's. You know the kind of questions going through your mind before leaving for your next foreign destination. What will I be able to eat? How will I find the dishes that I can eat? I will give you recipes on how can you make indian food at your home in some minutes with picture of how it looks. So, be ready to enjoy some indian dishes at your home.

Monday 8/22/14
        If you are tired and want to eat something nice and light, then you can try khichdi. It is the most cooked dish in India. So, today my mom came home and she said that she was so tired from work so she asked me what do you want to eat? I answered let's cook khichdi. After sometime she got up changed her clothes and got ready to make it. So, she took 1 ¼ cups of basmati rice, 1 ¼ cups of mung daal, water 5 cups, salt 1 teaspoon, turmeric 1/4 tablespoon, and asophoetida 1 pinch. The method was first wash moong daal and basmati rice until water runs clear. After the water is clear, take a pressure cooker add rice, moong daal, water, salt, turmeric, asophoetida, mix it well and while she was doing that it was looking a tree is moving with a wind like going forward and backward. Then pressure cook until one whistle sounds and immediately turn off heat and wait until pressure from cooker is gone before opening cooker lid, after it is done smell it will smell and look tasty just like a wet sand after it rains.

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Tuesday 8/23/14
       Today I and my family wanted to eat something delicious so we decided to make dal fry (curry) the taste of it is spicy, a little bit of sweet, and everything which you wanted to have in a delicious dish. The ingredients for this dish are 1/4 cup yellow pigeon peas (toor dal), 1/4 cup split yellow peas (yellow moong dal) ,1/8 cup, bengal gram dal (channa dal), 1/8 cup red split lintels (masoor dal), 4 tbsp clarified butter, 2 tsp cumin seed, 1/2 tsp asafetida (hing), 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp chili powder, 1/2 tsp coriander powder. 1/2 tsp garam masala powder, Salt to taste, 1 tomato (finely chopped), 1 onion (finely chopped), 1/2 tsp garlic (grated), 1/2 tsp ginger (grated), 1/2 tsp lemon juice, 2 tsp coriander leaves (finely chopped). The way my mom was adding salt taking it in her hand it was amazing it was just perfect and her hands were moving so fast while cooking these dishes were just awesome.  The steps are mix all the dals together and wash them properly. Soak them in 3 cups of water for 30 minutes before cooking it, pressure cook the dal in 2 cups of water with salt and 1 tsp of turmeric powder till done, in a frying pan, heat the ghee and temper it with the cumin seed When the cumin seed starts to crackle add asafetida. Stir it and add chopped onions. Fry on medium heat until onions turns pinkish in color. Add garlic, ginger and green chili and cook till they get brown burnt in color. To this add the chopped tomatoes and cook for further few minutes till the tomatoes are little soft. Now add coriander powder, garam masala, little turmeric powder and cook for another 4-5 minutes adding little water to it to ensure that the mixture does not get burnt. Next add cooked dal and mix them well. Add a little more water to it to bring it to the desired consistency. Bring to a boil and simmer at least for 10 – 15 minutes. Take out the dal in a serving bowl, add lemon to it and garnish it with the coriander leaves. Serve hot with chapattis and jeera rice.