Tomato pappu/ tomato dal
Tomato pappu/ tomato dal

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tomato pappu/ tomato dal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Andhra tomato dal recipe with step by step photos. This Tomato dal or Tomato pappu is inspired from the Andhra cuisine known for its bold and spicy flavors. However, This Andhra style tomato dal is neither spicy nor hot.

Tomato pappu/ tomato dal is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Tomato pappu/ tomato dal is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tomato pappu/ tomato dal using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tomato pappu/ tomato dal:
  1. Make ready kandi pappu/toor dal
  2. Prepare green chilli
  3. Make ready tomatoes
  4. Take coriander leaves
  5. Make ready onion
  6. Prepare chilli powder
  7. Get turmeric
  8. Prepare tamarind paste
  9. Prepare cumin/jeera
  10. Prepare mustard seeds
  11. Prepare Curry leaves
  12. Prepare garlic
  13. Get salt
  14. Take asfoetida
  15. Get ghee
  16. Get red chilli

Tomato pappu is red lentils that is cooked until fall apart tender and simmered with a ginger, tomato and spice sauce. It has that much protein to compete heavily against a steak. Rice topped with dal and a teaspoon of Ghee - I can have it everyday. If you are vegan, omit the ghee.

Instructions to make Tomato pappu/ tomato dal:
  1. Take 100 grams of dal, clean it. Keep it in the cooker. Take twice as much water.
  2. Cut onions, tomatoes, green chillis, coriander as shown.
  3. Add chilli powder, turmeric. Cook for 3 whistles on medium flame
  4. Add 2 teaspoons of tamarind and paste and 1 teaspoon of salt. Mix and taste.
  5. Take 2 tablespoons of ghee, add 1 red chilli, 1 tsp mustard seeds, cook for a 15 seconds, add jeera, 2 stems of curry leaves, 4 cut garlic cloves and one pinch of asafoetida. Let it cook for 30 seconds.
  6. Add it to dal. Let the dal cook on low flame for 5 minutes.

Today's dal recipe is the Andhra/Telangana special dal - Tomato Pappu or Tomato Dal made in Instan Pot. The toor dal and tomatoes in this delicious recipe are pressure cooked and then simmered with simple spices and ghee tempering. Dals/lentils are one of the staple recipes of India. Lentils/Pappu/Dal (The way it's called in a few languages) is the most humble of all Indian foods. Today I'm going to share with you my all time comfort I'm going to walk you through the Pressure cooker method to make this Tomato Pappu or Tomato dal.

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