Steamed Toor Daal Dill Cake
When life gives you a lemon, make lemonade, said somebody. Groovy! But what does one do when given a soaked cup of Toor daal? This was my quandary one weekday evening after getting back from work, when I found myself staring at soaked Toor daal, when I thought I had soaked Chana daal earlier in the morning that day to do God-knows-what.
“Serves you right, for placing the Toor daal jar right next to the Chana daal, anybody in the right mind would be confused” said the inner voice.
“Yeah right! I have hundreds of chores to finish before setting foot out of home, not to mention handling toddler tantrums, feeding, cooking etc etc” I pitched in.
“Ah! There she goes on the defensive again, anyway that is my theory and I am sticking to it” the inner voice said adamantly.
“Never mind the nuances. Let us move on and find out what to do with this. We already have lots of daal, so making sambhar/rasam is out of question. Also I want something quick, healthy and more like a side-dish that even the kid can eat” I pestered.
“How about making that steamed dish with soaked daal that has onions and dill?” the inner voice suggested.
“Bingo! Now you are talking business. Let’s get right to it”.
This is my contribution to the event Jihva for Ingredients:Toor Daal hosted by the wonderful Linda of Out of The Garden.
Ingredients
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1 cup toor daal (Chana daal can be used as well)
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1 medium onion
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2 cup fresh dill (substitute with coriander leaves if dill not available)
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2 green chillies
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2 cloves garlic
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turmeric
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Jeera
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Salt to taste
Preparation:
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Soak the toor daal in enough water for about 5-6 hours.
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Chop the onions into small pieces and keep aside.
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Clean the Dill leaves and chop into fine pieces.
Method:
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Drain the water completely from the soaked daal.
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Grind the toor daal, along with green chillies, garlic, turmeric, salt and jeera (cumin) to a coarse consistency.
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No need to add extra water as it will turn into a paste.
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Make sure that the salt and the chillies taste is correct. Go a tad bit higher on the salt and chillies, as it tends to get bland after it is steamed.
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Add the diced onions and chopped dill leaves and mix well.
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Heat a pressure cooker with enough water.
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Grease a container and pour the toor daal mixture into it.
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Place in the pressure cooker. Steam cook for about 12-15 minutes without the whistle.
Cool before serving. This can be used as a yummy side dish or can be eaten as is.
Don’t you just love that inner voice? 🙂 The steamed toor dal with dill cake looks just beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing this lovely (and easy after-work-even!) recipe for JFI 🙂
Linda
RC: thanks so much Linda. You are so sweet. The inner voice can sometimes drive us nuts right?
RC, could not resist by seeing the photo. Nice idea. Viji
RC: Thanks a lot Viji.
wow!!!mouth watering ….nice pic too!!!
RC: Thanks a lot Deepa
Lovely Recipe & great idea too.Its sure a hit with kids…Looks yum!!
RC: Thanks Seema. Yeah, kids love it too.
Nice recipe. A sort of toor dal dhokla!
RC: Thanks Aparna. Yeah, that is a neat way of describing it 🙂
Beautiful – I love the flavour of dill leaves
RC: Thanks Lakshmi.
Wow such a lovely dish.. really tempting..thnx for sharing.
sushma
RC: Thanks so much Sushma
Am glad you soaked this instead of channa.. or we would’ve missed this beautiful dish.
RC: Thanks Laavanya. I am so glad you feel that way 🙂 Atleast I see some silver lining in my forgetfulness.
Lovely cake. Superb idea.
RC: Thanks Pooja
Looks delicious….sounds like a healthy, steamed version of the deep fried parippu vada.
RC: Thanks Jayashree. You are so correct, it is a healty version of the deep fried vada 🙂
lovely n sounds delicious… awesme idea….
RC: Thanks Remya. Glad you liked it.
Lovely!!!
Gr8 idea!!!
Tee hee!! inner voice!! funny!
RC: Thanks Mansi. I know the inner voice can be so rude right 🙂
Looks yummy.. I should try this..nice entry and different too
RC: Thanks Vanamala. Glad you liked it.
Thats one amazing looking cake RC. U are so creative!
and Thanks for the recipe..:)
~ Siri
Thanks Siri. You are so sweet for saying that.
wonderful recipe. it’s almost a complete meal (the dessert is missing :D)
RC: Thanks Bee. Come over, I will bring some dessert as well 🙂
This ones so very innovative!! Looks really good
RC: Thanks so much Ramya. Glad you liked it.
RC..looks good..i goof-up many times too :D..
Thanks Rajitha. Goof-ups and me go hand in hand 🙂
Nice picture dear! 🙂 lovely recipe! I have a big list to try from the blogs! Don’t know when I will do it! 🙂
Thanks Latha avare. You are a super woman, you wil figure it out 🙂
very creativeeeee looks soo good
RC: Thanks sagari, glad you liked it.
Came here from Linda’s blog. Wonderful recipe and a great idea of using toor daal.
What an inspired dish! Thanks for sharing. I just came across your blog and I will be back for sure.
Its an awesome dish ,my family loved it and i make this every week now,Thanks a lot for sharing!!
take care and have a great day