Below is the recipe for the Toor Daal chutney.
The quantity of items below is less .. increase the quantities proportionally if you want to make more after you get it right the first time.
Ingredients required
Two cups of toor daal (yellow daal/sambar daal)
Two cups of Grated coconut
2 spoons to mustard seeds
One medium sized onion - chopped into 4-5 large pieces
Curry Leaves - atleast 3-4 stems of what you get in the stores.
Asafoetida powder
Tamarind
Salt
Few spoons of Oil to fry
8-10 Dry Red chillis (dont use the longer curly versions which are not spicy. Try to get the medium size straight ones which are spicy)
There are few items required to be fried.. Fry them seperately because, the time required for each item to be correctly done is different. Make sure all items are fried on low flame and use your judgement to decide when it is done.
Keep a Bowl - Bowl A - for finally adding all the items to be grinded. It can be the jar of the grinder also.
1) Pour a spoon of oil on a frying pan and add the mustard seeds and fry them. Once u start hearing the splatter or see a few turning white. Put into Bowl A.
2) Fry two cups of toor daal on a low flame..until you see majority of the daal truning reddish brown. Put into Bowl A.
3) Pour half a spoon of oil and fry the red chillis until they seem fried. Put into Bowl A.
4) Fry the Curry leaves. After like 7-8 secs, add the tamarind also and spray some asafoetida powder. Let the curry leaves turn brownish but dont let them completely trun brown or black. Put all of it into Bowl A.
5) Pour half a spoon of oil and fry the chopped onion until they turn reddish. Put into Bowl A.
6) Now, add the grated coconut to Bowl A. Add Salt for taste.
[Now the order of the items you fry above is not important, you can change it to your convenience.)
7) Add a little water and Grind everything to paste. Make sure, you dont add a lot of water, it has to be a thick paste. So keep adding a little water and mixing it as grind along.
You are done. Now enjoy it. The best way is to mix it with rice and a some ghee.
