For Pressure Cooking

• Rinse all the lentils a couple of times well with fresh water. 
• Soak it in water for 15-20 minutes. 
• Once the dal is soaked, put them in a pressure cooker along with water, ghee, salt, turmeric powder, and degi red chilli powder.
• Cover the lid and pressure cook the lentils on a medium flame for 3-4 whistles or until the lentils are cooked completely.
• Turn off the heat and allow it to cool down completely.

How to make Panchmel Dal 

• Add ginger in a mortar pestle and crush it into a smooth paste.
• In a large frying pan or kadai, heat ghee on medium heat then add, dry red chillies, cumin seeds, asafoetida and let them splutter well.
• Add onion, crushed ginger and fry them for a few seconds until they turn translucent.
• Now add degi red chilli powder and the cooked dal.
• Mix well.
• Cover and let it boil for 6-8 minutes on medium heat or till the flavours of the spices are well absorbed.
• Turn off the heat and transfer the prepared dal to a serving bowl.

For the tempering

• In  another tadka pan, heat oil.
• Once it’s hot, add dry red chilli, degi red chilli powder and immediately pour the tempering over dal.
• Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.
• Serve hot with roti or steam jeera rice.