Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, tomato dal. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Dal is also called as "pappu" in the telugu language. dal is a staple in Indian homes and there are many many variations of making dal which vary from state to state as well as from home to home. This tomato dal has the tang and the flavors of tomatoes. Here I have done the tempering first and then sautéed the onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes.

Tomato dal is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Tomato dal is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tomato dal using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tomato dal:

1. Get 1 cup masoor dal
2. Prepare 1 big tomato chopped in cube shape
3. Make ready 1 green chilli
4. Take 1 tsp black mustard seed
5. Take to taste Salt and sugar
6. Take 1 tbsp mustard oil
7. Get 1 tsp haldi/ Turmeric Powder
8. Make ready as needed Water
9. Take to taste salt

An Andhra meal is incomplete without a dal dish cooked with some veggie. Tomato pappu is eaten with plain rice, ghee and Avakaya (Andhra style hot mango pickle). This is the only recipe you will ever need to make a delicious, rich and healthy Andhra pappu. Boiling the dal / lentil for making Andhra Style Tomato Pappu Recipe I cook my dal in the pressure cooker.

Instructions to make Tomato dal:

1. Wash dal properly then in a saucepan add dal with suffecient water and cook it. Until dal is 75% cooked.
2. Now heat a kadai and add mustard oil and add black mustard seeds, now add tomato pieces and fry until tomatoes become little soft.
3. Now add haldi powder, green chilli, salt and sugar as per taste. Saute for few minutes.
4. Now add 75% cooked dal in this mixture slowly with the help of a spoon and stir continuously.
5. Cook until dal gets boil completely & 100% cooked. This dal taste will be little sour & sweet. But very delicious. Taste best when served with white rice.

I like to cook the dal in a bowl inside the cooker to avoid spewing of the water from the pressure cooker. The important thing about Andhra style pappu is the consistency of the dal. The roasted garlic and tomato dal that I am showing you here is one of the most simple and flavourful dal you can prepare. It needs minimum ingredients, can be prepared in a few minutes and is one of the best comfort foods in my repertoire. I use toor / arhar dal for this dish.

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