North Indian
Sabut Urad Dal (Home-Style Maa ki Dal)
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Sabut Urad Dal (Home-Style Maa ki Dal) is North Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the protein alongside. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pick over the urad, rinse it three times and soak it 6 to 8 hours or overnight.
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Pressure cook the drained urad with the water, turmeric and salt for 1 whistle on high, then 30 minutes on low, until the grains are soft and starting to burst.
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Mash the dal lightly with the back of a ladle so about a third of the grains break. That is what gives home maa ki dal its creamy body without any cream or butter.
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Heat the ghee in a pan, let the cumin seeds sizzle, add the chopped onion and cook 6 minutes until golden, then the ginger, chopped garlic and green chilies for 1 minute.
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Add the chopped tomatoes, red chili powder and coriander powder, cook 5 minutes until soft and jammy, then tip this tadka into the dal.
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Simmer the dal 10 minutes on low, stirring so it does not catch and adding a little hot water if it gets too thick. Finish with garam masala and cilantro.
Serve it with
A North Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Sabut Urad Dal (Home-Style Maa ki Dal), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sabut Urad Dal (Home-Style Maa ki Dal) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 260 kcal
- Protein
- 14 g
- Carbs
- 36 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 11 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 600 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Sabut Urad Dal (Home-Style Maa ki Dal) takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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