Dal Makhani: English – Urdu Recipe

Dal Makhani

Dal Makhani

Ingredients:

1. Black Lentils – 150gm
2. Split Bengal Gram – 15gm
3. Ginger Paste – 1 tbsp
4. Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp
5. Asafoetida – ¼ tsp
6. Tomato Puree – ½ cup
7. Red Chilli Powder – 2 tsp
8. White Butter – 125gm
9. Cream – ¾ cup
10. Salt – to taste

Method:

• Pick and soak the lentils overnight.
• Drain the lentils and boil them in 2 litres of water till 2/3 water gets evaporated.
• In a separate container crackle asafoetida, sauté ginger garlic paste and add tomato puree, red chilli powder, salt,  most of butter- keeping aside some for garnish.
• Then add cream, now add boiled lentils to this and cook for 30-40 minutes.
• Garnish with cream, butter and serve.

Note:

you can replace cream with milk and yogurt, if some one doesn’t like to add cream. Also you can reduce butter quantity, 125gm to 2 tbsp, 1 tbsp in start and 1 tbsp at the end.