For dal fry:
To start with, at first boil thoor dal on to a pressure cooker with 2 to 3 whistle’s. Make sure its cooked enough if you are not reliable on to the whistle’s. Now make a ground spice powder by roasting black pepper, cloves, cinnamon, cumin and red chilies. Then blend them in to fine paste over a blender. Or can use ground spice ready made powder. Now take a heavy bottomed sauce pan and turn on to a medium high flame and once hot enough add in oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, cumin seeds and fry them well. Then add in onions, ginger garlic paste, green chilies (finely chopped), red chilies and saute them well. Now add in turmeric powder, red chilies powder and also the prepared ground spice powder. And stir well. Add in asefotida as to the requirement. Add in finely chopped tomatoes and mix well. Now close the lid and let tomatoes cook well and until smashed. Once done, pour in the cooked thoor dal and combine well. Add in water as per the requirement of thickness and mix well. Add salt to taste. Throw some freshly chopped coriander leaves to it and squeeze some lime juice to it. once done, we will come back with some tempering. For that take a medium sized tempura pan and turn on to a medium flame, add in oil, minced garlic, cumin seeds and saute them well. Add in asafoetida and red chilies powder and mix well, once done give the tempering over the dal
