Biuli Daal (Bengali Kalai Daal)


Sometimes back I wrote about Aloo Posto (Potatoes cooked in poppy seeds paste). It is served as a side dish with Biuli Daal (Urad Daal or Kalai Daal as known in Bengali). There are many ways of preparing this daal, but most famous is the simple aromatic recipe stated below.

Ingredients:
  • ½ cup (100 gms) urad dal (kalai dal / biuli dal)
  • water (ratio 1 cup dal = 3 cups of water)
  • ½ inch ginger
  • 2 tsp aniseed (fennel / saunf / mouri)
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2-3 green chilli
  • salt (to taste)
  • 1 tbsp oil, for tempering
Procedure:
  1. Wash and soak the urad daal for 10 mins. Drain and keep aside.
  2. Take the aniseed and ginger in a bowl and add hot water. Keep covered for 30 mins. Drain water and blend them together to form a smooth paste. (Add a little water, if required). Keep aside.
  3. Boil water in a pressure cooker and add the daal. Add salt and mix well. Cover the pressure cooker with the lid and cook the daal for 10-15 mins or until moderately soft. (Ensure that the grains are visible and daal is not mushy).
  4. Heat oil in a kadhai, add bay leaf, green chillies and aniseed-ginger paste.
  5. Saute and stir a little (don’t fry too much or the paste will have a burnt smell and taste).
  6. Pour the tempering over the daal. Adjust the seasoning. (The daal should not be too thick. Add a little water, if necessary and give one boil).
  7. Serve hot with cooked rice.

Comments

  1. new to me..looks interesting and delicious.

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  2. I am sorry to say but by the looks of it I think you have forgotten the turmeric powder. As far as I know (being a bengali) its meant to look yellow.

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  3. My mum would make this the same way, no turmeric.. And at the end the dal would look white. However, I do know some of my friends' mums who put turmeric in their's.. so I guess it is just a family/individual preference..

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  4. biuli daal usually is white... but there is one form of bhaja biuli daal as well

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  5. This dal is cooked with out turmeric in bengal my mother cooked this in the winter, so it was a winter dish, she called it maskalai dal, that is urad dall split with out chilka. I did not write her recepi down, what a mistake, she has passed away and I am craving this dal.

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  6. I remember the same recipe but mother use to add Hing(Asafoetida)while giving phoron(tempering)

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  7. hing dile aro bhalo lage. tobe mouri diyeo kharap na.

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  8. Thanx, never tried it before! Planning to cook today, as per this nice recipe. I knew urad dal is something different than the maskalai‌‌!! LOL :D

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