What else should be in a daal

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Re: What else should be in a daal

@maait

Most of the recipes I find on the internet list a lot of masalas and spices even in simple daal which are not available to me. And most of them are Indian recipes where they put 3 cups of masalas for one cup of daal (:D).
Can someone tell me what are the most basic things required to make daals like masoor, mungi etc.?

I have tried just adding salt, red chillies, garlic, fried onion and tomato paste but it never tastes anything like daal.

Why doesnt it taste like daal? does it come out too bland for your taste? or are you not boiling daal enough. Sometimes if you dont boil daal enough the proper daal wala aroma doesnt come out .. some of the recipes mentioned above are awesome .. do try ..