Yellow Daal - Lentils

Ingredients

- Masoor Lentils
- Cooking Oil
- Salt
- Turmeric powder
- Chili powder
- Whole Cumin or one small sliced onion

Yellow Daal (Lentils) can be eaten with either rice or bread, or even by itself like soap.

Take two cups of Daal, and wash it thoroughly in a pot, drain the water after washing.
Add six cups of water, and let it soak for half an hour.
Put the pot on stove at mark 8 and cover it.
After five minutes remove the cover
Lower the heat to mark 4.
Remove the boiled bubbles
Add:
- Salt = Two tea spoons.
- Turmeric = One full tea spoon.
- Chili powder = Half tea spoon.
Stir and cover the pot while slightly opened to avoid boiling over.
Cook for 25 minutes, while stirring slowly every few minutes.
Prepare "Bhagaar" with some cooking oil and half a spoon of Cumin(zeera) or one small sliced onion and pour it in the pot and fry for a few minutes.
Stir the Daal first and pour the Bhagar, wipe the left over bhagar with a paper towel into the Daal.
Remove the pot from the stove.