🍛BIR Curries
Tarka Dahl
A classic British Indian Restaurant tarka dahl made with a pre-cooked base sauce. Rich, fragrant and ready in under 20 minutes.
20 min
Prep
15 min
Cook
Easy
Difficulty
11
Ingredients
6
Steps
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View sauce recipe →Requires G1The authentic choice — rich, deep flavour
G1 Base Sauce
2400 ml (8 portions) · 2+ hours · Involved
Key ingredients
100 ml oil · 750 gm onions (prepared weight) · 1 tspn salt · 1 tbspn turmeric · 1 tspn ground coriander · ½ tspn ground cumin · +8 more
Ingredients
Servings
- Dahl
- ¼ tspn cayenne pepper
- ¾ large tin pinto beans or chickpeas
- ½ tspn salt
- ½ small tin red kidney beans
- ¼ tspn garam masala
- ½ tspn fresh ginger
- Tarka
- ½ tspn garlic
- 100 gm onion
- 2 tbspn chopped tomatoes
Method
- 1
Finely chop the ginger and garlic.
- 2
Thinly slice the onion into rings and then cut the rings in half.
- 3
Lightly crush ½ of the pinto beans and put them into a non-stick saucepan.
- 4
Add the rest of the pinto beans and the kidney beans.
- 5
Add the ginger, garlic, tomatoes, cayenne pepper, salt and garam masala.
- 6
Add some water to loosen the mixture and mix well (optionally can use some masala sauce instead of water).