- Cuisine:Indian
- Course: Side Dish
- Prep time: 10mins
- Cook time: 15mins
- Serves: 1 cup
Ingredients:
- Toor Dal – 1.2 cup
- Moon dal – 1tbsp
- Red chillies – 5 to 6
- Pepper – 1/2 tbsp
- Dry Ginger/Sukku – a piece
- Salt
- Oil – 1tsp
- Water to grind
- In a pan add oil. Once oil is hot add toor dal.
- Add dry red chillies, pepper and dry ginger/Sukku.
- Fry them until golden brown.
- Transfer to plate and cool down
- Add them to blender and grind to paste by adding little water.
- Transfer to bowl
- Serve them with hot rice or vathakuzhambu or rasam.
- Note:
- Adding Sukku is optional. As it is just dal, sukku helps to avoid gas problem.
- You can also ad garlic if you prefer
- Do not add too much of water. Else it will be chutney.
- Adding moong dal helps to make the thogayal little creamy.
- Also skip dry red chillies and increase amount of pepper.
- Only if the thogayal is little spicy it will taste good. Else it will be bland.
- Curry leaves are optional.
- Do not store in fridge.