I can feel the nip in the air….can you?! The mornings are so awesome, I love the fog…things look different when there’s fog. I can stand by the window and go on looking at the sky..but…I obviously cannot do that everyday…..hubby has to go to work and I have a pile of my own work to sort through! I feel a day falls short to finish everything π….but the cool nights are a welcome change these days…curl up on my couch with a good movie on the television and my hubby to keep me company πππ…I love winters!!
And I obviously love the food that winters bring…everything is fresh and bright! I can eat things which I crave all year during winters π heheh…yeah..I do put on some weight around this season..and I ensure my hubby does too!!! In hindsight, he increases his workout duration to compensate for all the Gajar ka Halwa πΉ
Sooo…i decided I must share another of my family recipes here with you guys…specially made in the winters! Again..it is my Mom’s recipe…she makes the best Dal ki Dulhan in the world! At least for me, she does! My sisters, dad and I just never seem to have enough of it whenever she’d make itπ I am sure, every family makes it differently in terms of the flavour but the method remains the same. So when Mom was visiting us a few weeks back, she taught me this recipe too…:) but this is less complicated, she let me do all of the handiwork as well!! I must say, I did a pretty neat job for a first timer with ‘dulhan’!!
Essentially, this dish is typical to U.P ano Bihar. A one-pot meal….I’d call it as another version of Dal-Roti if you must! Dal ki Dulhan is nothing but mildly seasoned whole-wheat flour dumplings in a garlic flavoured, achaari dal with an aromatic Tadka (tempering) of ghee and hing (asafoetida). Yes, you got that right…achaari dal π It’s served on it’s own or with sliced onions and more ghee on the top…or you can have it just like a soup…a very rustic, desi soup!
It’s one the most healthy things you can make for your family….:)
Yield: serves 2
Equipment: a pressure cooker, rolling pin, rolling board, a ladle, measuring cups/ spoons.
Ingredients:
For the Dal:
1/2 cup tuar dal (split pigeon peas)
2+1/2 cup water
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Stuffed Red chilly pickle as needed (if you don’t have stuffed red chilly pickle, add the oil and the spices from any other North Indian style spicy pickle)
Method:
Wash the Dal and soak it in 2+1/2 cups of water for 15 mins. Pressure cook the Dal with salt and turmeric for 2-3 whistles. Let the steam release on it’s own. Set the cooked dal aside.
For the dulhan:
1 cup wholewheat flour
salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp ajwain (carrom seeds)
2 tsp ghee
water as needed
Method:
In a large bowl, take wholewheat flour, season with salt and ajwain. Add ghee and rub it with the flour for a couple of minutes. Then add water, very little at a time and knead a stiff dough. Cover the dough with a kitchen napkin and set it aside for 15 minutes.
Later, make small lemon sized balls of the dough. The to make the designs, follow the pictures below. Or you can keep them simple by rolling out small thick roti like shapes too.
Keep all the rolled dough balls aside on a plate.
Heat the Dal once again until it boils, add the pickle spices (the stuffing from the red chilly pickle, I add about 1 tbsp) and mix well. Then add the shaped dough dumplings into the boiling dal and reduce the flames to the lowest setting. These shaped dough dumplings need to cook in the boiling dal for the next 15 minutes. Once they are cooked, turn off the flame and cover with a lid.
For the tempering:
2 tbsp ghee
8-9 garlic cloves
2 nos whole red chillies
1/2 tsp jeera seeds
a pinch of hing (asafoetida)
Method:
Heat ghee in a small pan, add the hing followed by the red chillies, jeera and crushed garlic. Stir everything around for a minute or two. Once these ingredients start crackling, add the tadka (tempering) to the cooked Dal ki Dulhan. Mix well.
Garnish with chopped coriander and serve piping hot!
Comfort food at it’s best…specially in winters βΊοΈ
Love,
Shreya π
This is simply outstanding…but we used to think that ‘Dal’ is a female. π
Jokes apart, what we love about your blog are the traditional old fashioned utensils. They make your pictures more and more appealing. Your food pictures has a power to force anyone to eat what he otherwise don’t like in his routine life. Salute to your work.
Thanks a lot dear:) means a lot!! Glad you stopped by!
This is simply outstanding…but we used to think that ‘Dal’ is a female. π
Jokes apart, what we love about your blog are the traditional old fashioned utensils. They make your pictures more and more appealing. Your food pictures has a power to force anyone to eat what he otherwise don’t like in his routine life. Salute to your work SHREYA.
That is a gorgeous dish. I must try this one. I love dumplings and in a spiced dal broth, well you can’t go wrong with that.
Thanks Lisa, yes..very true! These taste yum and one can never go wrong with these:) do try and let us know how you like this.
Awesome …. remembered my childhood …. we call it daal ke dulha….
Thanks Parul:)
Yes…dal ke dulhe is another name π
This is lovely!!!
Thanks a lot:)