Masoor Dal Soup / Red Lentils Soup

                                                                             

What do you do when you catch a cold?  Get medicine? Take rest? Wrong! I look for recipes to pamper myself with! I take the saying "feed the cold..." quite literally!!

Here is what I made while nursing a wretched cold.  A spicy soup which is nutritious and tasty.  Aah! Already feeling better :)

Ingredients: 

1 cup red masoor dal
3 sliced onions
3 tomatoes
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
3 tsp curry powder ( or sambar powder)
1 tbsp ghee
Salt to taste
1 Lemon


Method:  Heat the ghee in a heavy bottom pan and fry the onions for a little while till they become translucent.  Do not brown.  Add the crushed garlic, red chilli powder and curry powder.  Fry for a minute. Add the tomatoes,washed red masoor dal and 6 teacups of water and transfer to a pressure cooker. When cooked, pass the mixture through a sieve.  Boil for few  mins.  Add salt.  Sqeeze juice of a lemon. Serve hot.

Instead of curry powder I use sambar powder.