Daanger or Danger or Daunker is a simple urad dal raita and it is very famous in Tanjore side. If you have the urad dal powder ready, this can be prepared within 10 minutes. It is a great side for Vathal Kuzhambu. There are couple of variations in this raita and this is one is the roasted urad dal raita. I had the roasted ural dal powder that I prepared for Janmashtami. You need this urad dal powder for Seedai, Thattai and for murukku. Prepared this urad dal powder is simple too. Just dry roast urad dal without adding any oil and grind them coarsely and store them in an air tight container.
The basic recipe is from the english version of “Samaithu Paar” by Meenakshi Ammal. The original recipe calls for butter milk but I went with yogurt and adjusted the urad dal powder quantity. Urad dal is one among the healthy dals and I have mentioned it health benefits in my panch mel dal and short grain idly and dosai too. In my native savory and sweet urad dal kali are very famous and especially they give this to girls during puberty time along with gingelly oil as it strengthens the pelvic bones and hip muscles. Traditional food always have their values.
Now coming back to this recipe this is what I did,
Ingredients:
- Urad Dal Powder – 1 tbsp (If you don’t have urad dal powder, dry roast 2 tbsps of urad dal with out addicting oil and dry grind them)
- Yogurt – 1/4 cup
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Hing – 1/2 tsp
- Oil – 2 tsps
- Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
- Curry leaves – a few leaves
- Finely Chopped Green chilly – 1 (adjust according to your taste preference)
Steps:
- Mix the urad dal powder, yogurt, salt and hing and mix well.
- Now in a tadka pan, heat the oil.
- Once the oil is hot add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, green chillies and curry leaves.
- As they start to splutter add it to the urad dal mixture.
That’s it. Raita is ready. As I mentioned its a great side for vathal kuzhambu.
Danger / Daunker | Urad Dal Raita
Ingredients
- Urad Dal Powder - 1 tbsp If you don’t have urad dal powder, dry roast 2 tbsps of urad dal with out addicting oil and dry grind them
- Yogurt - 1/4 cup
- Salt - 1 tsp
- Hing - 1/2 tsp
- Oil - 2 tsps
- Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - a few leaves
- Finely Chopped Green chilly - 1 adjust according to your taste preference
Instructions
- Mix the urad dal powder, yogurt, salt and hing and mix well.
- Now in a tadka pan, heat the oil.
- Once the oil is hot add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds, green chillies and curry leaves.
- As they start to splutter add it to the urad dal mixture.
Notes
Adjust the green chillies according to your preference.
Also you can replace them with dried red chillies. Adapted from Cook And See by Meenakshi Ammal
Also linking this to Valli’s ‘Cooking from Cookbook Challenge: February — Week 3′.
Hi.whether we can eat i.e. roast urad dal ?
Roasted urad dal is fine. That’s what we add in murukku.
Raita with dal sounds interesting.
Thanks :-)
That sounds so simple Vidhya :) Will have to try this out definitely !
Thanks FV.. Please do try and let me know how it turned out.
Sure, will do…
:-) :-)
Interesting one. Looks yummy!
Thanks :-)
Easy peasy healthy raita..
yeah ma.. :-)
Very nice raita recipe and very healthy will definitely try this one
Thanks Sharvari.. Let me know how it turned out.
It’s very interesting and new one to me….
Thanks Padma.
Wow this sounds intersting and delishhhh Sri. ..
Thanks a lot.
This time during my India trip I boughtmy Amma’s meenaski ammal book .. My fav chutney:-)
Love hers and DIL’s also.. I have some of their collection…:-)
Side for vathalkuzhambu? That’s interesting. Your pachadi looks great, Vidhya :)
Thanks
Yesterday only we prepared :)
I prepared this on friday.. vathalkuzhambu and this.. With my allergies n fever we are living on these pachadis only.. easy to prepare.
Sounds very simple Sri and looks so nice! :) Never heard or tasted this before, great share :) Also love your first shot and the serveware :)
Thanks GB.. This is a Tanjore Speciality.. BM gifted those serve ware. :-)
This is very interesting… Yeah I have heard that urad dal has many health benefits specially for untres..
Oh yeah Bharani.. They are help the uterus and also the pelvic bones. Thanks
healthy raita.. Must try recipe..
Thanks Veena
That is a very interesting raita recipe with urad dal powder. Will try it soon.
Yeah.. this is very famous in Tanjore side. Thanks Pavani.