HOTCHULHA

Ingredients:

• Masoor Dal – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 small – cut into small pieces.
• Tomato – 1 cup – Cut into small pieces.
• Tadka Seeds – 1/2 Teaspoon
• Curry Leaves – 1 stem
• Turmeric powder – 1/4 Teaspoon
• Salt to taste
• Oil as required
• Red Chillie Powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
• Ginger-garlic Paste – 1/2 Teaspoon
• Ginger- 1/4 inch piece cut into tiny pieces.
• Garlic – 1 clove – cut into tiny pieces.
• Whole Dry red chillies – 4
• Ghee – 1 Teaspoon

Method:

1. Put the dal, water, turmeric and red chilli powder and pressure cook it for 4 whistles and keep it aside. Open the cooker once the pressure is off.
2. Take a pan and put 1 tablespoon of oil and heat it and add 1/2 teaspoon tadka seeds. Once they crackle, put curry leaves(half from the stem), onion, ginger, garlic pieces and saute them for couple of minutes.
3. Add tomato pieces and fry this till the tomato cooks and then put the cooked dal, salt and 1/2 cup of water and let it cook on medium heat for 5 minutes and keep it aside.
4. Take another small pan and put 2 tablespoons of oil and bring it to heat. Now put the remaining curry leaves from the stem and dry chillies, ginger-garlic paste and fry this till the raw smell goes off.  Put this in cooked dal and mix it well.
5. While serving, put 1 teaspoon of ghee on top of the dal.

This goes very well with Roties and White Rice.