Red kidney beans and black gram cooked with plenty of butter and select spices to give you a dal which is rich, creamy and delicious. if you love authentic punjabi food then you are going to love this dal makhani even more.
Dal Makhani
Ingredients
Ingredients for soaking dal
Ingredients for Tadka
Instructions
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Soak black urad dal and rajma overnight 5 hours
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Transfer dal and rajma to a pressure cooker and add salt and turmeric to it. Pressure cook it till 5-6 whistles. Keep it aside
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Heat a pan with oil. Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and hing (asafoetida). Saute them for few seconds. Add ginger garlic paste. Again saute for few seconds.
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Add finely chopped tomatoes/puree. Add salt and cook till masala starts leaving oil from sides.
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Then add coriander powder and red chilli powder. Mix them well with the masala and cook for 2 minutes.
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Now add the pressure cooked daal to the masala and cook for 20 minutes . Keep stirring in between.
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Then add garam masala powder and kasuri methi. Cook for another 20 minutes .
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Add fresh cream and butter. Cook for 5 more minutes.
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Granish with fresh cream and a cube of butter.
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Sever with hot jeera rice or naan