My experiments with Slow cooker series - Dalma

Dalma is another Oriya/Bengali dish which my mom-in-law makes quite often. It is a good candidate for slow cooker.  This dish is Dal combined with many vegetables. We can use vegetables like Pumpkin, Drumstick, Baingan etc. Today I used, Gobi, Beens ,Alu and carrots. This is a good dish for kids which helps to sneak in some veggies along with dal.

Dalma

Ingredients :

1 Cup Arhar Dal(Toovar Dal)
6  Large Gobi florets
1  Aloo
6-7 Green Beans

1 Carrot

1 Tomato

5 whole green chillies

1 Tsp Ginger cut into small pieces

1 Bay leaf
2 Tsp Ghee

1 Tsp PanchPhoran(Kalonji,Methi,Jeera,Mustard,Fennel seeds mix)

2 Dried red Chillies

a pinch of Turmeric

Salt to taste

3 Cups of water

Cut Aloo, Carrot , Beans and Tomato into medium size pieces. Wash dal and place into Ceramic pot. Add Gobi , other cut vegetables and tomato. Add ginger, bay leaf,turmeric, Green chillies, salt and 3 cups of water.

Now put the slow cooker on High for 4 Hrs. After 4 hrs turn off the slow cooker and add tadka.

Tadka -  add paanchphoren , dry red chillies in Ghee and let it splutter. Add it to Dal.

Serve it with hot rice.