Recipe: Tasty Kathal with steamed rice and dal fry

Kathal with steamed rice and dal fry. Both dal fry and Dal tadka are two popular dal dishes served in Indian restaurants. Dal fry is not thin and usually has a medium to a thick consistency. While serving top the dal fry with some ghee or butter if required. Serve dal fry hot with steamed basmati rice, biryani rice, jeera rice or saffron pulao. Dal fry is made with toor dal mostly (split pigeon peas), an easy to cook, comfort food that goes well with steamed rice and some have it with roti/ phulkas too.

My favourite dish in North Indian cuisine! Whenever I get a chance to go to a North Indian restaurant,my order will be Dal. Curd Rice Steamed rice mixed with yoghurt and seasoning. You can have Kathal with steamed rice and dal fry using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Kathal with steamed rice and dal fry

1. You need 500 gm of Kathal/ jackfruit.
2. Prepare 4-5 of Onions finely sliced.
3. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
4. You need 1 tsp of Chilli powder.
5. You need 1 tsp of Turmeric powder.
6. Prepare 4 tbsp of Oil.
7. It's 1/4 tsp of Fenugreek dana.
8. You need 2 tsp of Onions paste.
9. You need 4 of large sized onions.
10. It's 10-12 pods of garlic.
11. Prepare 1 of Raw mango large sized.

This Dal Fry recipe is one of my absolute favorites. It's packed with flavor, really easy to make and tastes so good with rice. One can make dal fry with toor dal only. However, for this dal fry recipe, I have used a mix of toor and masoor dal.

Kathal with steamed rice and dal fry step by step

1. Firstly cut jackfruit in about 3" Cubes. And boil it. Keep aside.now Take all the ingredients of onions paste section and grind it. Keep aside..
2. Now add oil in a wok and heat it. When oil is sufficiently heated up add finely sliced onions and saute till translucent. At this point addJackfruit and stir fry it till pinkish. Keep aside..
3. In the same wok with the left over oil add methi dana. It will start cracking immediately. Add onions paste. Add all the spices and saute till raw aroma disappears and oil starts to separate.Add water if required..
4. Add kathal and cook on low flame for about 15 min. Transfer to serving bowl and serve with steamed rice..

Either way you make it, the end result will always be delicious! Idli/Steamed Rice and split black gram cakeZesty South Indian Kitchen. salt, water, urad dal, rice, oil, rice. Dal is my comfort food and I can eat dal and rice or dal and roti even everyday. Today we will learn how to make Dal fry for chapati and rice following this easy recipe with step wise pictures. Note - Have it with hot steamed rice topped with ghee or serve piping hot with chapatis or parathas.