Dal Curry
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the dal
Clean, pick, and wash the dal.
Roast the dal until lightly browned.
Cook
Add water and spices to the roasted dal.
Cook until the dal is tender and flavors are combined.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Dal
- Forms the body of the curry, thickening as its starches soften during simmering.
The step that matters
Roast the dal until lightly browned. Roasting toasts the dal's starches and proteins, adding nutty, savory flavour. Stopping too early leaves a flat taste, while overbrowning turns it bitter.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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