Collect all dal washed and soaked in water for half an hour
Remove excess water.
Heat a cooker add ghee, cumin seeds, asafoetida powder, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, cloves and pepper, add brown cardamom seeds remove the peel. Slightly roast.
Add grated ginger, chopped green chilli and slightly roast.
Add turmeric powder and now add the dal. stir and roast dal for 2 minutes.
Add water and salt.
Close the lid of the cooker and cook dal till a single whistle, then reduce flame and cook on low flame for 2 minutes.
Once dal is cooked well turn off the flame.
In a bowl add curd, cumin powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder. Mix well.
Add curd in small portion and stir it.
Now boiled the dal. Switch off the flame.
For tempering - add ghee in a tadka pan add cumin seeds reduce flame, add dry red chillies. Turn off flame and add red chilli powder.
Add tadka over dal. Slightly mix it.
Sumptuous dahi tadka dal is ready. You can serve with chapati, Naan or rice.
