Classic north Indian dish bursting with flavours, healthy and comforting. All in a single bowl.This is a combination of three lentils – Mung Lentils, Pigeon pea lentils and Bengal gram.
Trevti means three. So this recipe is basically with any three dal recipes. Dal can be made in different ways using different dal like Normal simple dal, dal tadka, dal fry using different dal. I really love to make dal because it is simple and very comforting food. I make sure I make them once in a week atleast. I usually make them on a weekday because it just atkes 10 minutes for me in a kitchen. I pressure cook them, meanwhile I chop some veggies for side dish. You can replace the dal with any dal you want. the idea is to make using three dal/lentils. There are different types of dal like garlic dal, 5 dal-pancharatna dal, peanut surati dal,khatti meethi dal,spinach dal and so on.
Served with some potato sukka, potato roast, rice, paratha, roti and so on.
Other Dal recipes: Chana dal paratha, Tomato dal rasam, Sambar-spicy lentil soup, Garlic dal and peanut dal.
- Tuvar dal/pigeon pea lentils – ⅓ cup
- Moong dal/split mung lentils – ⅓ cup
- Chana dal/ Split Bengal gram lentils – ⅓ cup
- Green chillies – 4, chopped roughly
- Turmeric – 1 tsp
- Salt – as needed (around 1 tbsp)
- Water – 3 cups for pressure-cooking the lentils
[For tempering] - Ghee /oil – 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds– ¼ tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Red chilli – 2, broken
- Asafetida/hing – pinch
- Tomato – 1, chopped finely
- Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Amchur powder – 1 tsp
- Sugar – a pinch
- Dry methi leaves – ½ tbsp, crushed
- Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp finely chopped for garnish
- Lemon – squeeze a little for garnish
- Add washed tuvar dal,moong dal and chana dal, green chillies, turmeric and little salt in the pressure cooker with water.
- Pressure-cook the lentils for 8 whistles till you get a mashable smooth consistency.
- When it’s pressure-cooked, open the cooker and check if the consistency is ok. If not mash it, add little water and boil for two minutes. Or leave it.
- Heat ghee/oil in a pan. Ghee gives great flavors to dal but. Sometimes I use oil too. Temper it with mustard seeds and wait till it crackles. Then add cumin seeds,asafetida, red chillies till they change color. Now add chopped garlic, ginger and tomato. Sauté them till they are free from raw flavor and mushy.
- Switch off the flame, add red chilli powder, amchur powder, sugar and dry methi leaves. Stir and pour the entire tempering on the dal.
- Garnish with chopped coriander and squeeze lemon. Check for salt and serve this gujarati trevti dal tadka hot with steamed rice and a potato fry. You can also serve this with rotis/naan.
I like this dal very much. Roti and dal is my all time fav food.
This looks amazing! I love your recipes. I’ve just pinned it to make it later — thanks for posting, and have an amazing weekend! 🙂
Thank you Justine 🙂 do let me know how it turns out! 🙂
Oh wow, this looks amazing! I’ll be sampling this recipe ASAP, I love easy weeknight meals! 😀
I’m not sure I’ll find the following ingredients locally: Asafetida/hing, Amchur powder, and Dry methi leaves. Do you think I’d still have decent results if I follow the recipe and just leave those ingredients out? Or should I try to replace them with something else?
Thanks!
Brittany, asafetida is more for flavor. I am sure you can cook the dal without all these, i have done without all these and it is still good. Little different in taste for sure but its still going to taste yum!
Awesome! I hate the smell of asfejeta (hing.) I still remember it to this day, but I know it makes this dish taste wonderful. I think my wife would divorce me I’d she knew I put it into a dish though.
I also love the amchur powder. I’ve made Dal muchanee before, nothing like this. I’m interested in how it will taste.
I’m going to share this with my readers. What a wonderful recipe!
Thank you so much Jason 🙂 very great words to encourage anyone :)! You can very well cook with no Hing 😉
I love dal, and haven’t made any in ages — this was just the prodding I needed! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Thank you so much Alanna 🙂 great words!
I really have to get over my fear of pressure cookers. This looks so good that I might have to get one now lol
That is true. but in India, it is very common to use pressure cooker. You can surely try using them! You can even boil the lentils for 30 minutes on medium flame which is same like pressure cooking 🙂 carole!
I made a lentil dal this week too but with sweet potato! Such a heart warming dish when it’s getting so cold and gloomy out. Maybe I’ll have to try your version 🙂
I have never tried with sweet potato! That sounds a great idea 🙂
I love a a good dal and this one sounds delicious!
Thank you so much 🙂
I like this very much
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