Daal Makkhani

Ingredients –

Black daal – 1 bowl

Rajma – A fist full

Garlic – 7 cloves 

Ginger – A small chunk, half crushed

tomatoes – 7 to 8

Curd – 2 serving spoon

Tomato sauce – 1 serving spoon

Milk – 3/4 of a glass

Yellow butter – 5 spoons

Cream – 1 serving spoon

Oil – 5 spoons

Red chilly powder- To taste

Garam masala – To taste

Salt – To taste

Turmeric – 1 tspoon

Method –

Take one katori black daal add to it one fist full of rajma .

Wash well and put in cooker with some salt n turmeric . Add lot of water enough for 8 whistles. Add 7 cloves of garlic and a small chunk of ginger piece. Switch off the gas after 8 whistles.

Take 7 to 8 tomatoes in mixie , add 2 serving spoon/karchie curd and 1 serving spoon tomato sauce. Blitz it all together. 

Once the whistles are done open the cooker add this puree through a sieve and put the cooker on slow flame and let the daal simmer n cook . After half n hour add some milk 3/4 of a glass. Let it simmer and cook . 

After half n hour add 5 spoon yellow butter . Let it simmer n cook . Keep stirring .

After another half an hour add some cream/malayee through sieve. Stir n cook . 

Let daal thicken n reach the consistency when it can be poured into the plate also . That thick .

Now take oil/ghee in a pan, heat it, add red chilly powder and garam masala . Add to daal . 

Taste and adjust seasoning . Serve with a dollop of butter on top 

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