The minute I saw this month’s themes that Srivalli had announced, my eyes fell on the Goan cuisine category and I knew I had to take it up. I had just one Goan recipe- A goanese style potato curry and thought this will be great reason to explore the cuisine since I won’t be doing it on my own otherwise.
Also I knew that if I took up this theme, the recipes were easy to find-where else, in Archana’s blog, ofcourse!!
I have book marked quite a few recipes from there.Here is the first one from the lot.
Adapted from The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen
I used:
Toor Dal- 3/4 cup
Potato- 1, medium sized, peeled and chopped
Coconut paste -2 tablespoons,coarsely ground
Mustard -1 teaspoon
Asafoetida powder- a pinch
Turmeric powder- a pinch
Curry leaves- a few
Green chilies- 2, slit
Oil- 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves to garnish
- Wash the toor dal and pressure cook it along with the potato,turmeric powder and 2 cups of water.
- When the pressure releases, mash lightly and keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan and add teh mustard.
- When it crackles, put in asafoetida, curry leaves and green chilies.
- Saute for a few seconds and then add the mashed dal, coconut paste and salt.
- Simmer and wait till till boils.During this time, if you feel the consistency of the dal is too thick, add water and adjust the consistency of the dal to suit your taste.
- Remove from heat and serve garnished with coriander leaves.
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Bon Appetit…
Very delicious dear
Goan style dal looks absolutely delicious… ๐
Coconut paste in Dal is new to me.. looks great, PJ
Add coconut paste in a dal sounds new..I guess that surely makes it taste different right!
Even i tried goan dal for my second week of BM, comforting dal definitely.
Sounds very delicious. Hope the power cuts are tolerable now.
Looks good. But I never saw any Goans adding potato to Toi. Totally new. Maybe I shud try it this way too.
BM makes us explore recipes we would normally not!!! and this Toi looks super delicious!!!
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A comforting dal looks healthy…
Delicious and comforting dal. Never added coconut paste in dal. Looks yummy!
today's post:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/03/picnic-chicken-curry.html
I used Archana's recipe and made this a few months back also – I love the addition of potato in this dal…a delicious one for sure!
Love these kind of simple, comforting deals.
Addition of coconut paste makes it goan? Need to try it as it looks so nice…
I have made this dal before and its a simple, yet such a lovely recipe! And I too went directly to Archana's space to check out the Goan recipes ๐
Addition of coconut paste to dal sounds yummy. Will try this soon.
Thanks to BM, i have learnt so many goan dishes from you all…Dal looks very tempting