Today’s recipe is a very simple Lentil Soup. We make it every day @ home,but never knew it has got a name and is also called a soup, not until i got Sanjeev Kapoor’s Dal and Kadhi CookBook. Osaman, Clear lentil soup, which can be made from both Tuvar Dal and Whole Moong dal. Today i have made it with Tuvar dal. Thin and Watery, with the taste of lemon,it is soothing for both throat and stomach.
Ingredients
1 Cup Tuvar Dal/Pigeon pea
½ inch ginger
2 green chilies
2 tablespoon jaggery
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon freshly chopped coriander
Salt to taste
Tempering
2 tablespoon oil
a large pinch of hing/asafoetida
½ teaspoon Mustard seeds
½ teaspoon cumin seeds
3-4 cloves
1 inch cinnamon
5-6 black peppercorns
2 sprigs of curry leaves
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
Method
- Wash tuvar dal and soak in 2 cups of water for about an half an hour. Drain, add five cups of fresh water and salt and pressure-cook for 3-4 whistles or until done.
- Strain the cooked dal and reserve the stock. Use the dal to make some other dish. I used mine with little more water to make rasam.
- Grind ginger and green chilies to a fine paste. Stir one tablespoon of water into the paste.
- Heat oil in a pan, Splutter mustard seed, add hing, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, pepper corns, curry leaves, ginger-chili paste.
- Next add the dal stock and stir. Add the turmeric powder and stir again. Adjust salt and add jaggery
- Just before serving, add lemon juice or cut a small rind of the lemon and add it to the soup and garnish with coriander leaves and Serve Hot.
Akila
Adding jaggery is new… Bookmarked
Corporate to Kitchen
The soup looks so good. I feel like sipping some:)
Gajus kitchen
Soup looks lovely with the lemon rind
Jeyashris Kitchen
i love these kind of clear soups, nice soup
divya
This looks so so yummy! Love the clicks 🙂
Unknown
wow, loving it. Please do send your delicious and healthy dish to my "Healthy Me & Healthy Us" event @ my blog (read the rules please)
Kalyani
ooh ! what a lovely idea of tempering the soup with Indian spices.. will try this out tomorrow.. I too make this, sans the lemon of course..
Lifewithspices
Love it's dal soup..
vaishali sabnani
The soup looks wonderful, and love the presentation.Oosaman can be made from whole moong also.
My World My Home
Wow…yummy & healthy soup
Priya Suresh
Sound almost like our rasam na, love the addition of jaggery and indian spices here..Wonderful clear soup Priya.
sushma
Soup looks awesome…Must be sweet and spicy
Swathi
Delicious lentil soup, looks like rasam.
Unknown
Love indian soups 🙂 this one is sure flavorful
Saras
Love this clear soup..Looks so comforting..
Manju
Similar to rasam, with a little sweet added. Yep smoothing to stomach.
Chef Mireille
love this one….a light soup with beans
Srivalli
Priya, your picture has come out so well!..very nice..
Anonymous
Yummy… Lovely soup
Harini R
Perfect on a wintry evening..lovely click too.
Nalini's Kitchen
comforting soup,looks so tempting and loved the way you presented the soup..
Suma Gandlur
Will give this a try, sounds flavorful and so Indian. 🙂
BTW, the recent pics have been really good. Why don't you publish them in a bigger size?
Priya_Srinivasan
thanks suma, trying to change the template let me see!!!
Pavani
What a comforting and rib sticking good soup. Sounds so comforting.
Gayathri Kumar
Looks like a super comforting soup Priya. I love the soup bowl so much…
veena
love the tempering…looks very inviting!!!