Dal Ma

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 3/4 cup toor dal
• 1/3 cup channa dal
• 1 teaspoon ghee or 1 teaspoon oil
• 1 peeled potato, and cut into large pieces
• 1/2 lb yellow squash, cut into pieces
• 1 small eggplant, cut into medium size pieces
• 1 g banana, cut into medium size pieces
• 2 teaspoons shredded coconut
• 4 dried red chilies
• 1 tablespoon gingerroot, minced
• 1 tablespoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon chari-phutana seeds (cumin, mustard, fennel, fenu greek)
• 1 teaspoon cumin seed
• salt

Recipe

• 1 1. dry roast 1 tsp of cumin in a pan and grind it properly and leave it aside
• 2 2. boil 4 cups of water and add both dals (toor and chana), coconut, salt, minced ginger and turmeric and
• 3 leave it until dals is half cooked'
• 4 3. add all vegetables viz. potato, banana, squash, egg plant and cook until daal is cooked properly
• 5 4. fry the chari-phutana until it fluters and then add it to the dal
• 6 5. mix the cumin powder from step 1 and serve with rice.