Today our lunch menu are rice with Dal telur and Sambal kacang ikan bilis. ‘Dal Telur’ is an Indian dish, it means eggs cook with lentils. This is my eldest girl favourite dish. She loves it when I cooked this and serve together with Sambal kacang ikan bilis 
Dal Telur
Rice with Dal Telur and Sambal Kacang Ikan Bilis
Ingredients :
1 cup of split lentils (dal) – soak for about half an hour.
2 stalks of curry leaves
1 big onion – sliced thinly
3 stalks of dried chillies – cut into 3-4 pcs about 1 inch 2 cm in length
4 eggs
2 potatoes – skinned and cut into 4
1 box of coconut milk – (I use 200 ml of Kara Coconut)
1 tsp of tumeric powder
Ingredients to be pounded :
1/2 tsp of cumins (jintan putih)
1/2 tsp of fennel (jintan manis)
2 garlic
Method :
1) Pour 1/2 pot of water and add the lentils. Cook over the fire till lentils are 1/2 soften (add more water if required)
2) Then add in the potatoes and let it boil further till potatotes are 3/4 cooked.
3) While waiting for the potatoes to cook, take a small saucepan and saute the onions with a little oil, add the dried chillies and curry leaves. After a few minutes, add the pounded ingredients. Fry till fragrant. Off the fire.
4) Add the saute ingredients to the pot and stir.
5) Add the eggs, tumeric powder and lastly add the coconut milk. Stir every now and then till the eggs are cooked. Add salt to taste.
6) This dish best eaten hot with rice and Sambal kacang ikan bilis (Spicy ground peanuts with anchovies).
