Bhaja Muger Dal Recipe - Bengali Style Moong Dal - Tickling Palates (2024)

Published: Jan 24, 2017 · Modified: Apr 1, 2022 by Radhika · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

Bhaja Muger Dal recipe with step wise photos. A sumptuous bengali style moong dal with vegetables and roasted coconut that could be served with rice and it tastes absolutely heavenly when served with baingan bhaja for side dish.

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As I grew up with Bengali and Brahmin community and most of my childhood friends are either bengali or tambrahm, I’m quite comfortable with both their cuisines.

The only thing that irked my senses with regard to the bong recipes was the aroma of mustard oil. I fought hard to fall in love with the pungent aroma of the oil and failed at all my attempts.

Though I loved this Bhaja muger dal along with baigan bhaja or aloo bhaja when I was served this at lunch, I felt that I would have liked it even more if I some other oil was used.

My mom used to make this often at home using the regular sunflower or groundnut oil and I always felt that something was lacking and used to complain that it doesn’t taste like “Sen” aunty’s muger dal.

As a kid, little did I know at that time that the oil made that difference.

Even during all these years, I refused to try the mustard oil in my cooking until very recently.

Usually, the moong dal is either roasted in ghee or mustard oil before cooking, to bring out a nuttier taste but I just dry roasted it.

Though pressure cooking the dal is quick and hassle free, it makes the dal sticky despite roasting it before hand.

So I would strongly suggest that you cook the roasted dal in an open pan for it to taste delicious.

Bhaja Muger Dal with stepwise photos:

1. Heat a pan and dry roast yellow moong dal till it becomes golden in color and the aroma arises.

2. Bring 2 cups water in a sauce pan to a boil. Add roasted moong dal and cook over low flame till it gets completely cooked. It should take 7-10 mins.

3. Meanwhile heat a pan with mustard oil. Add cumin seeds and let it sizzles. Add chopped green chilies, grated ginger, red chili powder, turmeric powder and mix well.

4. Immediately add cooked dal, peas, salt, mix well and cook over low flame for 3 to 5 mins.

5. Heat a tempering pan with ghee, add finely chopped fresh coconut pieces and roast till they become light brown in color.

6. Transfer this ghee roasted coconut pieces to the simmering dal, mix well and switch off stove.

7. Garnishthis bhaja muger dal withcoriander leaves and serve with hot rice.

You can also check out this Phalguni Dal or Dal Banjari which also goes well with rotis.

Bhaja Muger Dal recipe details below:

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