Grinding roasted dal

kalyani68 · Apr 20th, 2007, 01:17

What do you use for turning dry-roasted dal into powder? I have a mortar/pestle and this works for small jobs but what if I need to do a larger amount? My food processor just spins the dal around. My coffee grinder doesn't work that well either. I have an UltraPride wet grinder. Is there an attachment I can get for that?

Any suggestions?

rangss · Apr 20th, 2007, 01:29

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Originally Posted by kalyani68

What do you use for turning dry-roasted dal into powder? I have a mortar/pestle and this works for small jobs but what if I need to do a larger amount? My food processor just spins the dal around. My coffee grinder doesn't work that well either. I have an UltraPride wet grinder. Is there an attachment I can get for that?

Any suggestions?

Doesn't your food processor have multiple jar attachments? If there is a smaller and shallower jar, use it.

Digital Drifter · Apr 20th, 2007, 10:21

Second Rangss.

or you could do something sneaky, take the roasted dal to the appliances store and ask for a demo of any food processor with your dal in it.

Don't look at me like that! When you see the obviously fake demos on the Tele Shopping Network, you nod your head and say you want it!

kalyani68 · Apr 21st, 2007, 05:17

Boy, that would be funny if the featured demo appliance didn't do the job! I can just see the perplexed look on the sweet company rep's face. "Are you sure those aren't rocks?"

My food processor only has one bowl, with a 3 cup capacity.

I think I will have to put a spice grinder on my India shopping list.....

noflylist · Apr 21st, 2007, 08:04

May be I missed the point, but nevr heard of roasted daal, peanut maybe but not daal! I need basic cooking lessons!!!

kalyani68 · Apr 22nd, 2007, 02:02

Yeah, once in awhile dal gets treated like spice, hence the dry roasting.
I was wanting to make a powder that would be mixed with oil and eaten with iddlis.

noflylist · Apr 22nd, 2007, 02:29

I think I ate that in status restaurant Mumbai last month

crvlvr · Apr 25th, 2007, 01:24

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Originally Posted by kalyani68

I have a mortar/pestle and this works for small jobs but what if I need to do a larger amount? My food processor just spins the dal around.

That's why they have giding stones(or atleast used to have) in India. See below.

http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/people/realjobs/5941.htm

Apr 20th, 2007, 01:17	#1
kalyani68 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Midwest USA Posts: 215	Grinding roasted dal What do you use for turning dry-roasted dal into powder? I have a mortar/pestle and this works for small jobs but what if I need to do a larger amount? My food processor just spins the dal around. My coffee grinder doesn't work that well either. I have an UltraPride wet grinder. Is there an attachment I can get for that? Any suggestions?

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