Cucumber Dal-easy yet healthy & tasty recipe with the ingredients you have at home

This is a recipe which is very easy to make yet delicious & good for health. Cucumber is a veggie that everybody usually has in their kitchen everyday. If not, it is readily available. Cucumber is a very good food for loosing weight as this food is full of empty calorie, that means; it has few calories but it takes even more calories to digest.
So, recipe as follows:
Ingredients:
1) Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
2) Cumin whole-1/2 tsp
3) Whole dried red chili-2-3 in no,

4) Green chili- 1-2, chopped

5) Garlic pods-2-3 in no, roughly chopped,

6) Onion chopped-1/4 cup

7) Tomato chopped-1/2 cup

8) Cucumber cubed-2 cups

9) Toor/arohar/mung/chana dal- 1/2 a cup-pressure cooked with enough water.

10) Salt -per taste.

11) Turmeric-1/4 tsp

12) Curry leaves- (optional) 1 sprig

You can adjust any of the above amounts in ingredients, according to your taste.

Butter/ ghee & cilantro for garnishing.

Method:

1) Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seed, when splutter, add cumins, when fragrant add curry leaves & garlic. Let it brown till it is aromatic.

2) Add salt & turmeric, until the raw flavor from the turmeric is gone.

3) add onion, let it sweat. green chillies, fry a little, add tomatoes & cucumber & cook covered until theyr 1/2-3/4th done.

4) Mash the boil dal little bit & add to the masala. simmer in low heat until desired consistency.

5) Finish with a dollop of butter/ghee, 1/2 of a lime juice, & cilantro.

6) serve with roti/chapati/rice.

Enjoy!