Urdachi Dal Recipe
Urdachi Dal is a Maharashtrian-style lentil dish prepared with black urad dal. Make it using my easy recipe.
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About Urdachi Dal
Urdachi Dal is a Maharashtrian-style lentil preparation made using black Urad Dal, green chilies, onions, and fresh ginger.
The cooked dal is tempered with spicy onion, tomato, and green chili tadka.
It is a great recipe to make for everyday Indian-style meals. Serve it with dry sabzi and phulka or steamed rice and papad for a comforting meal.
Ingredients
For The Dal
To make the dal, you will need black urad dal (split black lentils), green chilies, fresh ginger, onions, turmeric powder, salt, ghee, and water.
You can also replace black urad dal with white urad dal.
Adjust the green chilies depending on your taste.
For The Tempering
To temper the dal, you will need peanut oil, ghee, cumin seeds, asafetida (hing), curry leaves, onions, green chilies, tomatoes, Kashmiri red chili powder, and coriander powder.
Replace ghee with oil to make this dal vegan.
Skip adding asafetida to make it gluten-free.
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Urdachi Dal Recipe
Ingredients
To Cook The Dal
- 1 cup black urad dal (split black lentils)
- 2 teaspoons chopped green chilies
- 2 teaspoons chopped ginger
- ¼ cup sliced onions
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ghee
- 4 cups water
For Tempering
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil (or any other cooking oil)
- 2 tablespoons ghee
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon asafetida (hing)
- 10-12 whole curry leaves
- ¼ cup chopped onions
- 2 teaspoons crushed green chilies, ginger & carlic
- ½ cup finely chopped tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
Instructions
Cook The Dal
- Add all the ingredients to a pressure cooker and stir gently.
- Pressure cook for 1 whistle on high heat.
- Then reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes.
- Remove the cooker from the heat and let the pressure release naturally.
- Open the lid and mash the dal slightly with the back of a ladle.
- Note – To cook the dal in an Instant Pot, add all the ingredients to the inner pot of the Instant Pot. Reduce the quantity of water to 3 cups. Press PRESSURE COOK and set the timer to 12 minutes. When the timer goes off, let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes. Then release the remaining pressure and open the lid. Mash the dal.
Temper The Dal
- Heat oil and ghee in a small pan over medium-high heat.
- Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and asafetida and let them crackle for 4-5 seconds.
- Add curry leaves, onions, and crushed green chili, ginger, and garlic and saute for 2 minutes.
- Now add tomatoes and saute for 2 minutes.
- Add chili powder and coriander powder and saute for 3-4 seconds.
- Pour the tempering over the cooked dal and mix well.
- Serve hot.
Hi Neha!
Thank you for these wonderfully delicious recipes.
If I would like to use an Instant Pot with this recipe what would the conversions be? Also, is there a conversion chart you use that you could point to for those who don’t have a traditional pressure cooker?
Thank you!
Hi kaj, I just updated the recipe with IP instructions. Please read. Thanks.