I have recipes for spicy deep-fried chana dhal and whole mung beans, and I've been making the two and mixing them; the two recipes use slightly different masalas, although both are quite heavily based on mango powder. I've just bought some moth beans to add to the mix, and would like to know what masala would work best with them.

Many thanks!

Hello Mongoose

Moth beans are one of the many varieties of lentils eaten in India. See here: http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Indian-Food-TRS-Moth-Beans.html

There are so many ways of cookings whole lentils or beans that it is difficult to give you one recipe to make them. If you cook them like whole moong dal, http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10368 , it should work.

Mamta

Hi Mamta - thanks for that. I actually got them from Spices of India, which is where I buy almost all my specialist foods and equipment. :-)

So you're saying I can pretty much use any masala when I deep-fry them, then?

Tell me why you are deep frying it? Are you making a crisp snack like a Dalmoth, rather than the daal as in main course meal? Dalmoth is different from Dal or Daal. In dalmoth, the dal is soaked, semi-dried on a towel to remove all water and then deep fried. It usually has has salt, pepper, a little tarteric acid, sometime a little garam masala and chilli powder. Dalmoth is a crispy snack, eaten like peanuts.

Mamta

Yes, it's a dalmoth I'm making - sorry I wasn't clear originally. I'll try a combination of the spices you suggest. Thanks!

I got some deep fried green peas a while ago (can't think of the proper name) they had salt and chili on them and once you started you couldn't stop eating them...

We Indians deep fry all kinds of lentils/dals, beans and peas to eat as snack! My mum used to make them all the time. As they are so easily available these days, I haven't made them for quite a while. May be one day soon!

Yesterday, I had some fresh green Soya bean pods, microwave cooked, sprinkled with salt and pepper and a fresh squeeze of lime. You just hold the whole, pea like pod between your teeth and pull it out gently, leaving the delicious seeds in your mouth. Very tasty! I must look for them when I get back to UK. Perhaps Indian grocers will have them!

Mamta

try this one i got from www.theasiancookshop.co.uk

Ingredients:

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1 cup moth beans (soaked overnight in water)

2 medium sized tomatoes (chopped finely or sliced into thin pieces)

1 medium onion (cut into thin slices)

1 tsp turmeric powder

2 tsp red chilli powder

1 tsp garlic paste

1 tsp ginger paste

1 tsp coriander powder

1/2 tsp garam masala powder (optional)

1 tsp lemon juice

oil for cooking( as required)

salt as per taste

Method:

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Wash moth beans soaked overnight , drain and keep aside.

Heat oil in a wide pan, fry onion till light brown. Add ginger and garlic paste, fry for 1 more min.

Add all other spices and fry for 2 min.

Now add moth beans and little water. Mix all other spices and salt with moth beans and close the lid. Allow to cook for 3 to 4 min on medium heat.

Now add tomatoes ( can reduce to 1 tomato, if you want less gravy or like to eat as a chaat). Mix all other ingredients with tomatoes and allow to cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Once you see the gravy become thick or there is no water, remove for the heat.

Add lemon juice , just before removing from the heat

it comes up great!

Hello

I am trying to find a step by step recipe for homemade Dal Moth. I hope you will help me in finding one.

Thank You

Kanwal

Try this site

http://www.dalmoth.com/

Just a thought, Dal-Moth is different from Moth-Dal. Dal-Moth is a snack.

You would make it same as whole Mung Dal, for which there is a recipe on this site.

Mamta

what r the spices that we can add in the home made dalmoth......?

Different people use different ones, but the commonly used ones are chilli powder, fine black pepper, kala namak, tartaric/citric acid powder and table salt.