Tarka dhal recipe

With a dash to Waitrose...

[Note: there is a link to a basic version of this post, with just the recipe, at the bottom of the page. Hopefully that should be more useful for printing out and following when cooking.]

My orchestra friend S asked me for my tarka dhal recipe, and, since I was looking for some shorter, easier (and frankly less traumatising all round) posts to write, I jumped at the chance to turn a comfort food recipe into a Substack post.

First of all, I need to say that I don’t consider this my recipe at all! I view it as a mash up version of these two recipes. All the credit needs to go to Aasmah Mir and Nisha Katona. Here is Aasmah’s recipe: