Toor Dal

This toor dal dish is also a sweet and sour dish - just like the parsi chicken with apricot dish.

What you need:

• 500 gr yellow lentils (soaked in water for 2 hours)
• 1 tbsp tamarind paste
• 2 tsp coriander seeds
• 2 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tsp black mustard seeds
• 7 curry leaves
• 5 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• green chillies to taste, finely chopped
• 400 gr tin tomatoes, chopped
• 1/2 tsp ground tumeric
• 10 gr molasses (from pomegranate)
• coriander leaves

How to prepare it:

1. Drain the soaked lentils and put them in a saucepan with 1 litre of water and the tamarind. and simmer for about one hour or untill the lentils feel soft.
2. Fry the coriander seeds until you can smell the aroma. Remove from the pan and fry the cumin seeds. Grind the roasted seeds in a mortar to a fine powder.
3. Heat the mustard seeds and allow to pop up. Add the cloves, cinnamon, chilli, tumeric, curry leaves and the roasted spicemix and cook for 1 minute.
4. Add the tomato and cook for 3 minutes.
5. Add the molasses and pour the spice mixture in the simmering lentils and cook for another ten minutes.
6. Season with salt. 
7. Delicious with parsi chicken with apricots.