West Indian
Dalitoy (Plain Tempered Toor Dal)
Dalitoy (Plain Tempered Toor Dal) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre, the protein alongside, and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1 cup toor dal
- 4 cups water
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 4 garlic cloves
- 2 dried red chilies
- 8 curry leaves
- 1/2 chopped onion
- 1 tsp tamarind pulp
- 2 tbsp chopped cilantro
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Rinse the toor dal and pressure cook it with the water and turmeric until soft, about 4 whistles, then mash it lightly smooth.
- Heat the oil in a pan and add the mustard seeds and cumin seeds, letting them pop.
- Add the crushed garlic and dried red chilies, and fry until the garlic turns golden and fragrant.
- Stir in the onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.
- Add the curry leaves, then pour the tempering into the cooked dal along with the tamarind pulp and salt.
- Simmer for 5 minutes to bring the flavors together, finish with cilantro, and serve hot with rice and fish curry.
Serve it with
A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Dalitoy (Plain Tempered Toor Dal), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Dalitoy (Plain Tempered Toor Dal) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Light
- Protein
- Medium
- Protein quality
- Partial
- Food groups it covers
- Pulses and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Dalitoy (Plain Tempered Toor Dal) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on toor dal and garlic.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from West India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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