Brown rice with dal

Ingredients

• 1 cupbrown rice
• ¾ cuptoor dal
• ¼ tspturmeric
• 1 tspcumin seeds
• 1 ginger
• 1 onion
• 1 green chilli
• 1 tspsalt
• 1 tbspghee or oil
• 5 cupwater
• ½ lemon

Method

1. 1.Rinse the brown rice and simmer it covered in about two and a half cups of water with a little salt until chewy and tender.
2. 2.In another pot boil the toor dal with turmeric and the remaining water until soft. Stir in some of the salt.
3. 3.Heat ghee or oil, fry cumin, ginger, green chilli and chopped onion until the onion is soft.
4. 4.Pour the tadka into the dal, simmer for 3 minutes and finish with lemon. Serve the rice and dal together on a thali.