A homey lentil dish

I made this very basic lentils about a week back, actally right after I returned from India. I was rather tired, I had gone into work right after I came in however the lagged exhaustion hit later, I came back in around 3 pm and went straight to bed. I was woken up a couple of hours later by two excited people jumping on my bed. It was actually wonderful to see them. It was a nice break but a really conflicted one without the little ones.

All in all, I caught up with some old friends thanks to Facebook, and also bought a lot of reading material. I am looking forward to reading some of the books, the cool weather is just right for that. I made this immensely simple lentils and was really stunned by the flavor, I did not even temper it, all it had was the goodness of toor dal (yellow split pigeon peas), tomatoes, garlic, lime and cilantro. I finished it off by melting some butter into it. It was pure and simple wonderful.

Homey Yellow Split Pigeon Peas  - Toor Dal with Tomatoes and Garlic

Prep Time: 3-4 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes (in a pressure cooker)

Serves 4

Ingredients

1/2 cup toor dal - (Yellow Split Pigeon Peas)

2 cups water

1 teaspoon turmeric

1 teaspoon salt

2 pods garlic

2 tomatoes, chopped

2-3 tablespoons chopped cilantro

1 lime

Freshly ground black pepper

Additional chopped cilantro

1 tablepsoon butter

Method of Preparation

1. Place the toor dal, water, salt, garlic and tomatoes and cilantro in the pressure cooker and cook under pressure for 10 minutes.

2. Cool and remove the pressure and mix the lentils well.

3. Cut the lime and squeeze in the juice, add plenty of black pepper, stir in the cilantro and butter.

4. Enjoy by itself or with plenty of steamed white rice.